Celebrate Pride Month With Multimedia Resources

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Streaming Videos 

Movies 

  • Beautiful Thing tells the story of two teenage boys, neighbors in a London high-rise housing project, who gradually become aware that they are homosexual. 
  • A Fantastic Woman is about a transgender woman named Marina. She works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer and is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend. 
  • Love is Strange depicts the delicate nature of two people building a long life together and their love growing deeper and richer with time. 
  • Call Me By Your Name details the love story of Elio and Oliver, two young men who spend a summer together on the Italian Riviera and develop a bond that shapes their view of love for the rest of their lives.

Documentaries  

  • The Freedom to Marry offers the untold, inside story of this historic movement. This is a riveting ride alongside Evan Wolfson and Mary Bonauto, the architect and the main litigator of the movement, and their key colleagues from earliest days of their journey to their final frenetic dash to the US Supreme Court. 
  • In My Shoes: Stories of Youth with LGBT Parents is about five young people who are children of LGBT parents. This documentary gives you a chance to walk in their shoes – to hear their own views on marriage, making change, and what it means to be a family.  
  • Out in the Open will, once and for all, destroy the misconceptions, fears, and myths about the LGBTQ community. This uplifting documentary is geared towards at risk youth across the world, as well as their families, friends, and teachers. Featuring interviews with celebrities, politicians, and everyday allies who openly embrace the LGBTQ community, this feel-good film asserts that no single person is the same and that all people should be celebrated. 
  • The Celluloid Closet explodes sexual myths and explores how our attitudes about homosexuality and sex roles have evolved through the century. 
  • Gay USA is an essential documentary about the experiences of thousands of people in the ‘gay marches’ or ‘LGBT+ marches’ of the 70’s. 
  • Pay It Mo Mind: Marsha P. Johnson is a documentary about Marsha P. Johnson who was a revolutionary trans activist, Stonewall instigator, Andy Warhol model, drag queen, prostitute, and Saint, as well as a downtown New York City fixture. From the 1960s through her too-soon demise in 1992, Johnson persevered through a life embodied by her middle initial P, which stood for “Pay It No Mind.” 

Physical DVDs and CDs  

DVD Documentaries 

  • Paris is Burning is a 1990 American documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it. Critics consider the film to be an invaluable documentary of the end of the “Golden Age” of New York City drag balls, and a thoughtful exploration of race, class, gender, and sexuality in America. 
  • How to Survive a Plague is about the early years of the AIDS epidemic. The disease was considered a death sentence affecting communities, like the LGBT ones, whom many in power felt deserved it. This film tells the story of how militant activists like ACT-UP and TAG pushed for a meaningful response to this serious public health problem. As the activists struggled against political indifference, religious hostility, corporate greed and apparently skewed scientific research priorities with determination and sheer audacity, they produced a political wave that would lead to not only an effective treatment regime, but would advance LGBT rights beyond anyone’s expectations. 

DVD Movies  

  • Philadelphia is about two competing lawyers who join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for discrimination when one of the lawyers is fired because he has AIDS. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries 
  • Following the lives of five gay men in Pittsburgh, ‘Queer as Folk’ is a riveting drama full of sex, drugs, adventure, friendship and love. Although the creators of ‘Queer as Folk’ wanted to present an honest depiction of gay life, it is by no means a comprehensive depiction. In addition to the usual sexual escapades and relationships of the five friends, the show explores critical gay political and health issues.LC Call #: PN1992.77.Q4 Q44 2007 
  • Brokeback Mountain is set in 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack are inexorably drawn to each other through their proximity, loneliness and through a shared lack of tenderness and emotion in their lives and are emotionally, physically and psychically bonded to each other almost from the start 
  • The Danish girl is about a remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda’s marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili’s groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer 
  • Moonlight is about a young black man grapples with his identity and sexuality while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami. 
  • LC Call #: PN1997.2 .M66 2017 

CDs