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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.

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)

Other Media

Podcasts

  • Totally Trans (Katie Coleman, Henry Giardina, and Ada-Rhodes Short)
  • Making Gay History (Eric Marcus)

Short Films

  •  Get Off My Turf! (Trans Genderation)
  • The Real Thing (B Kelley and Jon Gestal)
  • Happy Birthday, Marsha! (Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel)