Be Kind, Even When It’s Tough
When LGBTQ+ Past and Present Collide! How LGBTQ+ History Can Inform PFLAG Advocacy Work Recording & Training Toolkit
As the old saying goes, those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it. In this session, PFLAGers will review key facts about LGBTQ+ history, examine key advocacy issues that will impact people who are LGBTQ+ in 2025, and understand what history can tell us about the challenges and opportunities we currently face. We’ll also consider how the past and LGBTQ+ leaders throughout history can inform the ways in which we, and our chapters, take action and create change.
Find a PFLAG group in your community:
- Find a PFLAG chapter in the US: pflag.org/find-a-chapter
- Find a PFLAG group globally: pflag.org/intlfamilygroups
- Learn more about PFLAG Connects Communities meetings: pflag.org/connects/communities
- Learn more about the PFLAG Online Community: facebook.com/groups/pflagnational
Websites:
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 and 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
Additional Resources from PFLAG:
- PFLAG Glossary of Terms
- PFLAG Publications
- Recommended Reading
- Something to Talk About Live
- PFLAG Advocacy Center
- #ReadWithLove
Research & Data:
- Healthcare: Why Repealing the Affordable Care Act Is Bad Medicine for LGBT Communities
- Immigration: Living in Dual Shadows LGBT Undocumented Immigrants
- Education: 2021 National School Climate Survey
- Adoption & Foster Care: Overview of LGBT Parenting, Adoption, and Foster Care
- Religious Liberty: Religious Liberty’ and the Anti-LGBT Right
- Transgender Equality & Inclusion: Legislation Affecting LGBT Rights Across the Country