PFLAG Votes Together: The Power of Relational Organizing
When LGBTQ+ Past and Present Collide! How LGBTQ+ History Can Inform PFLAG Advocacy Work
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