LGBTQIA+ History Month 2020
- Help Build an LGBTQIA+ Resource Center at SF
- Celebrate National Coming Out Day on October 11
- Celebrate Spirit Day on October 15
- International Pronouns Day is October 21
A little history about LGBTQIA+ History Month and why it came to be in October and not June when we celebrate PRIDE and the anniversary of the Stonewall riots.
In 1994 Rodney Wilson, a gay Missouri high school teacher, believed that a month should be set aside and dedicated to gay and lesbian history.
In alignment with National Coming Out Day, and the first gay and lesbian march on Washington back in 1979, October the chosen month.
Movies and Documentaries
- Disclosure
- Holding the Man
- I am Michael
- The Danish Girl
- The Queen
- Forbidden Games: The Justin Fashanu Story
- To Each, Her Own
- Rocketman
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Rent
- All in my Family
- Pakistan’s Transgenders: Hidden Lives
- State of Pride
- The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
- Kiki
- L Word Mississippi: Hate the Sin
- How to Survive a Plague
- Trembling Before G-d
- Paris Is Burning
- Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community
Book Resources
- https://bookriot.com/2019/12/27/most-anticipated-lgbtq-books-of-2020/
- https://diversebooks.org/5-authors-share-about-their-books-for-pride-month/
- https://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/lgbt
Pod casts
- Making Gay History
- Your Queer Story
- The Deviant’s World
- History is Gay
- LGBTQ&A
- Queerology
- Nancy
- Strange Fruit
- Hoodrat to Headwrap
- Queersplaining
- Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness
Community and Support
- Family support – https://www.familyequality.org
- Family resource – http://www.therainbowletters.com
- Tools for Talking – https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/parents/identity
- Check out this docu-series – https://chosenfamilypins.com/pages/about
- How to find community – https://www.lgbtcenters.org/ , https://centerforblackequity.org/
- Community news – https://www.advocate.com/
- Community Heroes – https://www.stonewall.org.uk/node/132806 , http://www.glad.org/post/honoring-black-lgbtq-icons/
- Health care resources – http://www.glma.org/
- The Trevor Project – https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
- Santa Fe College Counseling – services by phone and video are available. To make an appointment with a counselor, call 352-395-5508, or email counseling@sfcollege.edu. Our staff members are licensed mental health providers providing free, confidential services. We wish to stress that being LGBTQIA+ is NOT a mental health issue, but the familial, relational, and societal factors that they face can certainly be a stress that negatively impacts their mental health.
Vote!
- Register to vote – https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/
- Absentee ballot – https://www.vote.org/absentee-ballot/
- Find folx in support – https://www.hrc.org/your-elected-officials , https://victoryfund.org/
Connect with these groups
- Equality Florida – https://www.eqfl.org/
- PFLAG – https://pflag.org/
- Human Rights Campaign – https://www.hrc.org/
- Legal Advocates – https://www.glad.org/ , https://www.lambdalegal.org/
LGBT around the world
- International organizations – https://outrightinternational.org/ , https://ilga.org/ , http://www.globalequality.org/
- Intersectionality – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1islM0ytkE , https://www.outandaround.com/
- Love and law around the world – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YviaImM1Qs , https://ilga.org/downloads/ILGA_World_map_sexual_orientation_laws_December2019.pdf
- Celebrate – https://youtu.be/fX2wjjOFL3w
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