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From Films On Demand database:
- Stonewall Riots A year after "Boys in the Band" opened, police raided The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City. The patrons and onlookers fought back and a riot broke out, which started the gay rights movements.
- After Stonewall: America's LGBT Movement Narrated by Melissa Etheridge. In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's gay community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the Gay Liberation Movement had begun. After Stonewall, the sequel to Before Stonewall, chronicles the history of lesbian and gay life from the riots at Stonewall to the end of the century. It captures the hard work, struggles, tragic defeats and exciting victories experienced since them. It explores how AIDS literally changed the direction of the movement. The two films, Before & After, tell the remarkable tale of how homosexuals, a heretofore hidden and despised group, became a vibrant and integral part of America's family, and, indeed, the world community. Featuring Dorothy Allison, Michael Bronski, Rita Mae Brown, Barney Frank, Barbara Gittings, Arnie Kantrowitz, Larry Kramer, Craig Lucas, Armistead Maupin, Leslea Newman, Barbara Smith, and many more!
- The Play Within: An LGBTQ Documentary This film presents the premiere of the stage adaption of the award winning film, The Play Within, an emotional and issue-focused fictional drama based on the lives of two real people—Matthew Shepard and Tyler Clementi—and their tragic, untimely deaths. After the play, an audience talkback allows for an exploration of this experience. This is followed by a wide-ranging discussion by psychiatrists, social service providers, clergy, and others who illuminate the history, evolution, and current circumstances that face the LGBTQ community.
- One Nation Under God Imagine: beauty makeovers for butch lesbians; tackle football for gay men; electroshock orgasmic reorientation... These and other funny, bizarre, and often terrifying methods have been used for decades to "cure" gays and lesbians of their homosexuality. This film takes us into the strange world of "ex-gay" ministries and "conversion" therapies, revealing shocking techniques used to "straighten" out all those "twisted" souls. At the center of the film are two former leaders of one of the biggest ex-gay ministries, who just happen to fall in love.
- TEDTalks: Yoruba Richen—What the gay rights movement learned from the civil rights movement As a member of both the African American and LGBT communities, filmmaker Yoruba Richen is fascinated with the overlaps and tensions between the gay rights and the civil rights movements. She explores how the two struggles intertwine and propel each other forward — and, in an unmissable argument, she dispels a myth about their points of conflict. A powerful reminder that we all have a stake in equality.
- Growing Up Gay DESCRIPTION In this eye-opening and timely film, young pop culture icon Olly Alexander explores why the gay community is more vulnerable to mental health issues and opens up about his own long-term battles with depression. The outspoken frontman of British band, Years and Years, Olly is a powerful voice on mental health, bullying, and LGBT rights. He has broken taboos with music videos that celebrate queer identities, and spoken openly about his own sexuality and ongoing struggles with anxiety. In the film, he talks about homophobic bullying, eating and anxiety disorders, and what can be done to address them.
- TEDTalks: Kristie Overstreet—What Doctors Should Know About Gender Identity Kristie Overstreet is on a mission to ensure that the transgender community gets their health care needs met. In this informative, myth-busting talk, she provides a primer for understanding gender identity and invites us to shift how we view transgender health care -- so that everyone gets the respect and dignity they deserve when they go to a doctor.
- Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best? This program explores the divisive debate over whether a child should be free to make permanent changes to their gender. Dr. Kenneth Zucker once ran the largest public clinic in Toronto for treating children and adolescents with gender dysphoria, an often violent feeling that the body they were born in does not match their true gender. But then Zucker was fired and his clinic closed down amid comparisons to a religious zealot trying to "cure" homosexuality. His supporters believe he is a victim of a virulent form of transgender politics that stifles freedom of speech. The program features interviews with Zucker, his patients, the families, the clinicians and transgender activists. A BBC Production.
- Just Gender This documentary challenges the viewer to question their notions of what it means to be male or female. By taking us on a journey through the eyes that see the world differently, it explores the diversity that exists within the transgender community, as well as the depth of the transgender experience in day-to-day living.
- The Lavender Coalition at Chaffey Learn more about The Lavender Coalition at Chaffey.
- PBS SoCal: LGBT Pride Month Celebrate Pride Month this June and every day with PBS! Explore a special collection of films, series and short stories that explore the LGBTQ experience in the United States and around the world.
- Pride - Human Rights Campaign HRC advocates for LGBTQ equality and educates the public about LGBTQ issues.
- LGBTQ+ Community Equality The campaign for equality for people who are part of the LGBTQ+ community (which includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer people and others with a broad range of sexual orientations and gender identities) in the United States has seen significant success since the mid-twentieth century. Public opinion and federal law have shifted considerably over time, with support for rights like same-sex marriage dramatically shifting from the 1980s to the late 2010s. In 2015, several states still had laws against same-sex marriage, but the Supreme Court ruled that all people have a constitutional right to marry. On June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that LGBTQ+ employees are protected by federal law in the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex.
- Resources for LGBTQ+ Students The mission of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence through vigorous enforcement of civil rights in our nation's schools. To serve this mission, OCR enforces civil rights laws to protect all students, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) students, from unlawful discrimination and harassment based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, and age.
- LGBTQIA+ Guide from Antelope Valley College Please look through the rest of the tabs on this guide to find resources specific to each letter in the LGBTQIA + acronym and a tab for those that wish to be allies to the community as a whole.
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