LGBTQIA+ Community Education and Resources Guide

A list of resources for those wanting to educate themselves about the LGBTQIA+ community

To follow:

Social media accounts:

  • Call Me They: IG @mx.acdumlao, Facebook Call Me They
  • LGBT History: IG @lgbt_history
  • Them: IG @them
  • GayTimes: IG @gaytimes
  • Lesbian Herstory Archives: IG @lesbianherstoryarchives
  • ButchCamp: IG @butchcamp
  • Queer Bible: IG @queerbible
  • Visual Aids: IG @visual_aids
  • H_e_r_s_t_o_r_y: IG @H_e_r_s_t_o_r_y
  • The Queer Archive: IG @thequeerarchive
  • God I’m Such A Dyke: IG @godimsuchadyke
  • ALOK: IG @alokvmenon
  • Black and Pink: IG @blackandpinkorg
  • Schuyler Bailar: IG @pinkmantaray
  • The Trevor Project: IG @trevorproject
  • Chella Man: IG @chellaman
  • Nyle DiMarco: IG @nyledimarco

 

To read:

Articles:

 

Books:

Fiction

  • Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
  • Rubyfruit Jungle: A Novel by Rita Mae Brown
  • Maurice: A Novel by E.M. Foster
  • In at the Deep End by Kate Davies
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  • All Adults Here by Emma Straub
  • Bestiary by K-Ming Chang
  • Boys of Alabama by Geneveive Hudson
  • The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
  • I Know You Know Who I Am by Peter Kispert
  • Memorial by Bryan Washington
  • Plain Bad Heroines, by emily m. danforth
  • The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels
  • Real Life by Brandon Taylor
  • A World Between by Emily Hashimoto
  • Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
  • You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
  • Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

 

Poetry and Memoirs:

  • 13th Balloon by Mark Bibbins (poetry)
  • Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition by P. Carl (memoir)
  • Born to Be Public by Greg Mania (memoir)
  • A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt (memoir)
  • Fairest: A Memoir by Meredith Talusan (memoir)
  • Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son by Richie Jackson (memoir)
  • The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I’ve Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance by Matt Ortile (memoir)
  • Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas (memoir)
  • Homie by Danez Smith (poetry)
  • Later: My Life at the Edge of the World by Paul Lisicky (memoir)
  • Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (poetry)
  • The Selected Works of Audre Lorde, ed. by Roxane Gay (poetry)
  • Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery (memoir)
  • Tomboyland by Melissa Faliveno (memoir)
  • Untamed by Glennon Doyle (memoir)
  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (poetry)
  • Boy Erased by Garrand Conley (memoir)
  • Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

 

Academic and Non-fiction:

  • We Are Everywhere:Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation by Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown
  • Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks (super accessible!)
  • This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldú (academic & memoir)
  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
  • Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
  • Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities by John D’Emelio
  • Transgender History by Susan Stryker
  • Gay New York by George Chauncey
  • Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and the New Racism by Patricia Hill Collins
  • Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
  • Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy & Madeline D. Davis
  • Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
  • Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader by Gayle Rubin

To watch or listen to:

TEDTalks:

 

Movies/Documentaries:

  • Disclosure
  • Milk
  • United in Anger: A History of ACT UP
  • Moonlight
  • Angels in America by Mike Nichols
  • Brokeback Mountain by Ang Lee
  • Carol by Todd Haynes
  • Tongues Untied
  • Nanette

 

TV Shows:

  • Pose
  • Steven Universe
  • Orange is the New Black
  • One Day at a Time
  • AJ and the Queen
  • Schitt’s Creek
  • Dear White People
  • Queer Eye
  • Glee
  • Modern Family
  • The L Word
  • Queer as Folk

 

Videos/YouTube:

 

To browse:

Websites: