Pride Month in the Black Lives Matter Movement
Evolution stands for social justice. Earlier this month we published a statement on our Anti-Racist values and provided some resources to help people educate themselves and support the movement.
We still continue to fight for justice for Black lives, and at the same time, it is important to remember and continue to fight for justice and equality for the LGBTQI+ community especially during the month of Pride. While LGBTQI+ members continue to face injustices, we also know that Black members of the community usually face a double-whammy of discrimination and bias. There is a big & nuanced concept called Intersectionality that gives context to this, and we strongly recommend learning as much as you can about it. Intersectionality is almost always at work, and often without our awareness.
While we have made strides in learning about the experiences of the LGBTQI+ community, and we are seeing better representation in mainstream culture, there is more work to be done. Here we are providing educational resources to help you better understand the LGBTQI+ community (including helping you break down what that acronym even means), and how you can support them.
LGBTQI+ Resources
This list* was created to help our community connect to organizations and educational resources that support the LGBTQI+ community and dismantle the systems of oppression that our country was founded on.
Join & Follow
Human Rights Campaign
HRC is the largest organization fighting for the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. By inspiring and engaging individuals and communities, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBTQ people and realize a world that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.
GLAAD
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of individuals and events in all media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25.
The Safe Zone Project (SZP) is a free online resource providing curricula, activities, and other resources for educators facilitating Safe Zone trainings (sexuality, gender, and LGBTQ+ education sessions), and learners who are hoping to explore these concepts on their own.
Founded with the mission to build sustainable LGBTQ community centers, this organization now has over 200 locations in 46 states and five countries. Aside from strengthening local LGBTQ communities, the organization also provides networking, technical assistance and training, and capacity building services.
TLC is the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people. Grounded in legal expertise and committed to racial justice, TLC employs a variety of community-driven strategies to keep transgender and gender-nonconforming people alive, thriving, and fighting for liberation.
Read, Watch, Listen & Learn
Read
Articles
“The ABCs of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+,” by Michael Gold for the New York Times
“A Guide to Being an Ally to Transgender and Nonbinary Youth,” by The Trevor Project
“50 Years After Stonewall, We’re Still Disagreeing About What Happened There. That’s Why the Archives Matter,” by Jason Baumann for Time
“Call yourself an LGBT ally? Here’s how to actually be one,” by Carlos Maza for The Washington Post
“What does it take to be an ally?” by Chintan Girish Modi on Medium
“LGBTQIA+ Media that highlights People of Color: A Go-To Guide,” by Nerdy POC on Medium
Books
The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
Stonewall by Martin Duberman
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Watch
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, a Netflix documentary re-examining the 1992 death of transgender activist legend Marsha P. Johnson, who was found floating in the Hudson River.
How to Survive a Plague, a 2012 American documentary film about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, and the efforts of activist groups ACT UP and TAG
Paris is Burning, a documentary that chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it
Disclosure, a Netflix documentary that looks at Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact of this on American culture.
Moonlight, a coming-of-age drama following the life of a young man who grows up poor, Black, and gay in a rough Miami neighborhood.
State of Pride, a YouTube Original documentary by filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman in which they travel to three diverse communities, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Tuscaloosa, to document LGBTQ Pride fifty years after the Stonewall riots.
Pose, Set in the 1980s, `Pose' is a dance musical that explores the juxtaposition of several segments of life and society in New York: the ball culture world, the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe, and the downtown social and literary scene.
Listen
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast, join Ericka Hart and Ebony Donnley, as they game give, dismantle white supremacy and kiki in the cosmos somewhere between radical hood epistemological black queer love ethics, pop culture, house plants and a sea of books
Getting Curious, a weekly podcast with Jonathan Van Ness (Queer Eye) and experts in their respective fields as they get curious about anything and everything under the sun
Nancy, a critically-acclaimed podcast featuring queer stories and conversations, and hosted by two best friends, neither of whom are named Nancy. It’s a podcast about how we define ourselves, and the journey it takes to get there
Making Gay History, documents the oral history of those on the frontlines of the LGBTQ movement from 1945-1990
One From the Vaults, a trans history podcast by Morgan M Page
*While building our list we sourced both from our internal community and also lists built by others. We are grateful for the input and groundwork laid by all.