Pride Resources
Pride Month is celebrated in June to recognize the June 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan, which helped serve as a catalyst for the modern gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.
This year (which also marks the 50th anniversary of the first Pride march), Pride celebrations might take a different form than in years past, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still show up and show your support for the LGBTQ+ community. This guide will give you some ideas on how to virtually celebrate Pride from home.
READ ABOUT THE HISTORY OF PRIDE AND LGBTQ+ ADVOCACY
Stonewall Riots
History.com
The real history behind the Stonewall riot
Insider
Pride Began With A Protest: How Gay Rights Are Connected To Black Lives Matter
Bobby Berk
CELEBRATE WITH VIRTUAL ACTIVITIES & EVENTS
#PrideInside
Human Rights Campaign
Celebrate Pride at home with playlists, recipes, volunteer opportunities, and family activities such as coloring pages and Drag Queen Storytime.
READ LGBTQ+ BOOKS
“Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged.”
Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation
“In Stand by Me, the acclaimed historian Jim Downs rewrites the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marching in the streets. Drawing on a vast trove of untapped records at LGBT community centers in Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, Downs tells moving, revelatory stories of gay people who stood together–as friends, fellow believers, and colleagues–to create a sense of community among people who felt alienated from mainstream American life.”
“Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope.”
More resources:
10 Incredible LGBTQIA Books to Read this Pride Month
LISTEN TO LGBTQ+ PODCASTS
“Step inside the confession booth of Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham, two culture writers for The New York Times. They devour TV, movies, art, music and the internet to find the things that move them — to tears, awe and anger. Still Processing is where they try to understand the pleasures and pathologies of America in 2020.”
“The Making Gay History podcast mines Eric Marcus’s decades old audio archive of rare interviews — conducted for his award-winning oral history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement — to create intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history.”
“One From the Vaults, a trans history podcast by Morgan M Page. We bring you all the dirt, gossip, and glamour from trans history!”
More Resources:
5 Podcasts at the Intersection of Pride Month and the Black Lives Matter Movement
The New York Times
WATCH LGBTQ+ FILMS/TV SHOWS
“Fifty years after the Stonewall uprising, Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and host Raymond Braun travel to three diverse communities – Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama – for an unflinching look at LGBTQ Pride, from the perspective of a younger generation for whom it still has personal urgency.”
Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community
“This multiple Emmy award winning documentary pries open the closet door, setting free the dramatic stories of gay communities of eras past. Revealing and often humorous, the award winning 'Before Stonewall' exposes the fascinating and unforgettable decade-by-decade history of homosexuality in America, from 1920's Harlem through to World War II and the witch hunt trials of the McCarthy era, before winding up at the Stonewall Inn one summer night. 'Before Stonewall' is essential viewing for all those who have celebrated their sexuality, or have been persecuted because of it.”
“Follow queer actor Dyllón Burnside on a journey to discover how LGBTQ Americans are finding ways to live authentically and with pride in the modern South.”
More Resources:
8 LGBTQ Documentaries to Watch During Pride Month
40 LBGTQIA+ TV Shows You Really Should Binge-Watch to Celebrate Pride Month
SUPPORT LGBTQ+ ORGANIZATIONS
“Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award®-winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25.”
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network
“National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) is a healing justice organization committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color (QTPoC). We work at the intersection of movements for social justice and the field of mental health to integrate healing justice into both of these spaces. Our overall goal is to increase access to healing justice resources for QTPoC.”
“Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis — for the trans community, by the trans community. Trans Lifeline was founded in 2014 as a peer-support crisis hotline. The Hotline was, and still is, the only service in the country in which all operators are transgender.”
More resources:
24 LGBTQ+ Organizations You Can Support Right Now