Suggested Media

If you are looking for representation in media as an LGBTQIA+ student or a staff/faculty member, are looking to expand your knowledge of queer media and culture as a community member, and/or you have completed Safe Zone training and are looking for further reading, this page serves as a collection of suggested media from books and articles on an array of LGBTQIA+ topics to movies and television shows that center LGBTQIA+ narratives and stories.

Spring/Summer 2024 Queer Cinema Showings

3/21 "No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon" @ 3 PM in Guyon Auditorium, Morris Library

4/9 "Kumu Hina" @ 3 PM in Guyon Auditorium, Morris Library

5/1 "Swan Song" @ 3 PM in Guyon Auditorium, Morris Library

6/14 "Queens at Heart" short film followed by "The Queen" documentary

7/19 "Joyland" @ 3 PM in Guyon Auditorium, Morris Library

Pride Mixtapes

These playlists showcase a variety of music by LGBTQIA+ artists:

Pride Mixtape #1: 1900-1960

Pride Mixtape #2: 1961-1989

Pride Mixtape #3: 1990-2010

Pride Mixtape #4: 2011-20

Readings

Biographies

Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography by Christine Jorgensen
Charity and Sylvia by Rachel Hope Cleves
A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock

Nonfiction

Transgender History by Susan Stryker
Gay New York by George Chauncey
Honeypot by E. Patrick Johnson
Arresting Dress by Clare Sears
Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam
Black on Both Sides by C. Riley Snorton
True Sex by Emily Skidmore
Female Husbands by Jen Manion
A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson

Fiction

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Angels in America by Tony Kushner

Articles

"Constructing the 'Good Transsexual': Christine Jorgensen, Whiteness, and Heteronormativity in the Mid-Twentieth-Century Press" by Emily Skidmore

Watchlist

Television

Schitt's Creek (2015)
Pose (2018)
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
Sex Education (2019)
Euphoria (2019)
Heartstopper (2022)

Limited Series/Web Series

We've Been Around (Rhys Ernst and Christine Beebe)
Equal (Stephen Kijack and Kimberly Reed)

Movies

Desert Hearts (dir. by Donna Deitch, 1985)
But I'm A Cheerleader (dir. by Jamie Babbit, 2000)
Moonlight (dir. by Barry Jenkins, 2016)
Swan Song (dir. by Todd Stephens, 2021)
Monica (dir. by Andrea Pallaoro, 2023)

Documentaries

Paris is Burning (dir. by Jennie Livingston, 1990)
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (dir. by Victor Silverman and Susan Stryker, 2005)
Kumu Hina (dir. by Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer, 2014)
Disclosure (dir. by Sam Feder, 2020)
Muxes (2022)
Framing Agnes (dir. by Chase Joynt, 2022)
The Stroll (dir. by Kristen Lovell, 2023)
Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate (dir. by Benjamin Cantu, 2023)