Books, Movies & More...

What’s on your reading list? Here are a few suggestions!

While not a comprehensive of books to read, here are a few favorites; inspirational, engaging and enlightening. Take some time this month to read one (or two) and let us know your favorites. OR - share with us your reading list!

• ‘David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music’ by Darryl W

• ‘The Guncle’ by Steven Rowley

• ‘The Queer Bible’ by Jack Guinness

• ‘Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss and the Fight for Trans Equality’ by Sarah McBride

• The Truth About Goodbyeby Russell Ricard

• Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

• The Gay Agenda by Ashley Molesso & Chessie Needham

• Things We Shouldn’t Say by Jay Coles

• Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan

We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. – Laverne Cox

... Movies

Art is at its best when it reflects the world around us, offers insight into others’ lived experiences, teaches us something about our history or holds a mirror up to our own lives. And if we’re lucky, it’s all of the above. Regardless of your background, adding more diverse films to your movie night diet shows Hollywood how important they really are. Not only does watching more movies about PRIDE offer a learning experience, but it helps the cause of aligning media with what the world we live in actually looks like.

Paris is Burning

This documentary focuses on drag queens living in New York City and their “house” culture, which provides a sense of community and support for the flamboyant and often socially shunned performers. Groups from each house compete in elaborate balls that take cues from the world of fashion. Also touching on issues of racism and poverty, the film features interviews with a number of renowned drag queens, including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija and Dorian Corey.

But I’m a Cheerleader

Megan (Natasha Lyonne) considers herself a typical American girl. She excels in school and cheerleading, and she has a handsome footballplaying boyfriend, even though she isn’t that crazy about him. So she’s stunned when her parents decide she’s gay and send her to True Directions, a boot camp meant to alter her sexual orientation.

Brokeback Mountain

In 1963, rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and ranch hand Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) are hired by rancher Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid) as sheep herders in Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, Jack makes a drunken pass at Ennis that is eventually reciprocated. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart, Alma (Michelle Williams), and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider (Anne Hathaway), the two men keep up their tortured and sporadic affair over the course of 20 years.

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