LGBTQ+ History Month Resources

PFLAG Academy Online Learning Sessions

• Don’t Know Much About LGBTQ History?: The Ultimate LGBTQ History and Culture Extravaganza
• When LGBTQ Past and Present Collide! How LGBTQ History Can Illuminate Today’s Challenges

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

• Ahead of the Met Gala, Remember: You Can’t Have Camp Without Queer by Erika W Smith
• An Exploration of Camp: Next Year’s Met Gala Theme Explained by CR Staff
• 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 Civini
• Eminent Outlaws: Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram
• Everything You Need to Know About The 2019 Met Gala by Amy De Klerk
• Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video by Raymond Murray
• Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement (Stonewall Inn Editions) by Mark Thompson & Randy Shilts
• Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights 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 End of Gay Culture by Andrew Sullivan
• The Gay Almanac by National Museum & Archive of Lesbian & Gay History
• 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
• The Modernization of Sex: Havelock Ellis, Alfred Kinsey, William Masters & Virginia Johnson by Paul A Robinson
• Transgender History by Susan Striker
• Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg