LGBTQIA Resource Guide Celebrate Pride Month by checking out some of these great movies, archives, and books!
Films and documentaries
DVD 305.3 Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric Katie Couric sets out across America to meet with leading scientists, physicians, and experts to answer questions about gender, and sheds light on stories of struggle, understanding, ignorance and love.
DVD 306.765 Growing Up Trans: a documentary by Miri Navasky American Experience. Stonewall Uprising: An intimate exploration of the struggles The Year that Changed America and choices facing transgender kids and When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar their parents. Through moving, personal in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on stories of children, parents, and doctors, June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that this installment of Frontline examines new lasted for the next six days. The Stonewall riots, as they medical interventions increasingly being came to be known, marked a major turning point in the offered at younger ages. modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world. DVD 306.766 SOU Southern Pride Free to stream on the PBS website: bit.ly/AEStonewall The story of two small towns in Mississippi planning their inaugural Gay Pride in the wake of the 2016 US presidential election. But the power of community should never be underestimated, and the brave efforts of the two gay bars are an inspiring example of real Southern pride.
Hoopla DVD 306.768 GRO Growing Up Coy Celebrate Pride Month by streaming a variety of films from Hoopla, accessible through the Downers Grove Growing Up Coy follows a landmark Public Library website with your DGPL library card. Type transgender rights case in Colorado where LGBTQ in the search bar to find titles. a six-year-old transgender girl named Coy dglibrary.org/elibrary has been banned from the girl’s bathroom at her school. The film also asks a universal question that every parent may face: How far would you go to fight for your child’s rights?
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The American Archive of Public 305.3 GOT Broadcasting Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to In addition to other material, you can watch Identity and Expression by Iris Gottlieb 48 raw interviews that were used for the Seeing Gender is an of-the-moment making of the Stonewall Rising documentary. investigation into how we express and bit.ly/AmericanArchiveStonewall understand the complexities of gender today. The Digital Transgender Archive 306.76 FUN This online hub collects digital materials The Book of Pride : LGBTQ Heroes Who and archives from all over the world. Changed the World by Mason Funk digitaltransgenderarchive.net Captures the true story of the LGBTQ civil rights movement from the 1960s to the Gerber/Hart Library & Archives present through richly detailed, stunning Located in Chicago, the library reopened to interviews with the leaders, activists, the public on June 10, and there are several and ordinary people who witnessed the exhibits currently available to attend in person. revolution and made it happen. There are also both archival videos as well as contemporary video interviews on the website. Graphic Novel Biography Kobabe, M Gender Queer: A Memoir gerberhart.org by Maia Kobabe Gender Queer is more than a personal story: Lesbian HerStory Archive it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity-what it means and how to think This archive houses the world’s largest about it-for advocates, friends, and humans collection of materials by and about everywhere. lesbians and their communities; their digital collection also includes an array of oral histories and other recordings. 796 HAR Sporting Gender: the history, the science, lesbianherstoryarchives.org and stories of transgender and intersex athletes by Joanna Harper Library of Congress Sporting Gender explores both the historical The Library of Congress has a vast collection and current issues of defining gender in of accessible material, including audio and sports, especially regarding intersex and video interviews, historical footage, legal and transgender athletes. It not only covers civil rights issues, manuscripts, art, and more. important events and regulations, but bit.ly/locLGBT also delves into the lives of the athletes themselves to provide a personal perspective Other resources available at the LOC: on the science of athletic performance. bit.ly/locLBGT2 Biography Windsor, E Stonewall National Museum and Archives A Wild and Crazy Life: A Memoir by Edie Windsor In addition to being able to browse their archival materials, the museum is hosting A lively, intimate memoir from an icon of a series of free and open to the public the gay rights movement, describing gay life programs via Zoom. in 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism which opened the door bit.ly/StonewallPrograms for marriage equality. LGBTQ Flags This slideshow helps to explain the meaning behind and the origin of 13 different flags the LGBTQ community uses. bit.ly/PrideFlagInfo