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Resources

This page and the accompanying subtabs are maintained to provide various materials, resources, and information for advancing your own intercultural development and understanding of the LGBT community. Feel free to utilize these resources in your classrooms, for projects/assignments, or just for your own personal development. We will add materials as we find them to help provide as many as possible.

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Spectrum Center

Click Here to access our LGBT Center Library Collection google sheet. You are more than welcome to check out materials as needed.

LGBTQ Educational Materials

Video: 5 Ways to Support LGBQ+ Online Learning

Film Recommendations

  • Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
  • The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
  • Paris is Burning (1990)
  • We Were Here (2011)
  • Common Threads: Storied from the Quilt (1989)
  • Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine (2013)
  • Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda (2014)
  • The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)
  • Tongues Untied (1989)
  • Outrage (2009)
  • Imagine Me & You (2005)
  • Brother Outsider (2003)
  • Stonewall Uprising (2010)
  • Do I Sound Gay (2014)
  • Disclosure (2020)
  • The Celluloid Closet (1995)

Book Recommendations

  • Making Gay History by Eric Marcus
  • The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman
  • Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Baynard Rustin by John D’Emilio
  • And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
  • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
  • Torn by Justin Lee
  • Boy Erased by Garrard Conley
  • Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride
  • Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trail by Kenji Yoshino
  • The Men with the Pink Triangle by Heinz Heger
  • Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker
  • Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identities by C. Riley Snorton