LGBTQ+ History Month Resources

PFLAG Academy Online Learning Sessions

• When LGBTQ Past and Present Collide! How LGBTQ History Can Inform PFLAG Advocacy Work

PFLAG History

• PFLAG’s Story
• Making Gay History: Season 1, Episode 6 – Jeanne & Morty Manford
• Making Gay History: Season 3, Episode 9 – Past PFLAG National president Paulette Goodman
• Making Gay History: Season 3, Episode 11 – Morty Manford

Websites

• LGBT History Month
• GLBT History Museum
• ONE Archives

Films

• After Stonewall
• Before Stonewall
• The Celluloid Closet
• Cured
• Kinsey
• Masters of Sex
• Paragraph 175
• Paris Is Burning
• Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria
• The Times of Harvey Milk
• Vito

Books & Essays

• And The Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
• Ahead of the Met Gala, Remember: You Can’t Have Camp Without Queer by Erika W Smith
• A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
• Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life by Jason H Jones
• The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini
• Eminent Outlaws: Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram
• Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights by Eric Marcus
• Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945–1990 by Eric Marcus
• Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of Wililam Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love by Thomas Maier
• Notes on “Camp” by Susan Sontag
• Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America by Lillian Faderman
• Op-Ed: The Stonewall I Remember Wasn’t Just White by Irene Moore
• Out in All Directions: A Treasury of Gay and Lesbian America by Eric Marcus
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter
• The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo
• The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman
• The Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D’Emilio
• Transgender History by Susan Stryker
• Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg