PRIDE
What is Pride Month?
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is currently celebrated each June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. The Stonewall Uprising was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. Celebrations include pride parades, picnics, parties, workshops, symposia and concerts, and LGBTQ Pride Month events attract millions of participants around the world. (Library of Congress)
Celebrate Pride Month 2022
Celebrate Pride Month in Chicago
Chicago Pride Parade and Festivals
International LGBTQ+/Gay Pride Calendar International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association

Books
- Civil Rights Movements: Past and Present edited by Michael J. O’Neal (available in print)
- Equally Wed by Kirsten Ott Palladino (available as an eBook)
- Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe (available in print)
- Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary by Sasha Geffen (available in print)
- Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin (available in print)
- Inside the LGBTQ+ Movement by Jennifer Lombardo (available in print)
- It’s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality by Michelangelo Signorile (available as an eBook)
- A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples by Frederick Hertz (available in print)
- Logical Family: A Memoir by Armistead Maupin (available in print)
- My Sister: How One Sibling’s Transition Changed Us Both by Selnis Leyva (available in print)
- Queer: A Graphic History by Meg John Barker (available in print)
- The Queer Advantage: Conversations With LGBTQ+ Leaders On the Power of Identity by Andrew Gelwicks (available in print)
- The Queer Bible: Essays edited by Jack Guinness (available in print)
- Rainbow Warrior by Gilbert Baker (available in print)
- Soldier of Change: From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement by Stephen Snyder-Hill (available as an eBook and in print)
- Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler (available in print)
- Tomorrow Will be Different by Sarah McBride (available in print)
- A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir by Edie Windsor (available in print)

Organizations
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Center for American Progress
- COLAGE Children of Lesbian and Gays Everywhere
- GLAAD Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
- GLSEN Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network
- Human Rights Campaign
- The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
- Lambda Legal
- National Center for Lesbian Rights
- National LGBTQ Task Force
- PFLAG Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
- Plainfield Pride
- Pride Foundation
- The Trevor Project
- The Williams Institute

Movies
DVDs:
Streaming:
- American Experience: Stonewall Uprising PBS
- Hoopla
- Kanopy
- A Road To Home
- The Believers: The First Transgender Gospel Choir
- Coming Out: A Fifty Year History
- Out in the Open
- The Right Girls
- An Act of Love
- Gaysians
- In My Shoes
- Rainbow’s End: The European LGBTQ Movement
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El Canto del Colibri: Latino Immigrant Men and Their LGBTQ Family Members
- Southern Pride
- Welcome to Chechnya

Websites/Articles
- LGBTQ+ Terms and Symbols | Matthew Shepard Foundation
- LGBTQIA+ Studies: A Resource Guide | Library of Congress
- LGBTQ History articles | History.com
- Five Trailblazers You Should Know: Pride Edition | National Museum of African American History and Culture
- 26 People From the LGBTQ Movement You Should Know | Redbook
- Celebrate with pride: Visit these sites where LGBTQ history was made | USA Today
- ‘I wanted to be considered an equal citizen’: 52 years after Stonewall riots, fight for equality continues | 10 Tampa Bay WTSP
- A Proclamation on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Pride Month, 2021 | The White House
- The Stonewall Inn: The People, Place and Lasting Significance of ‘Where Pride Began’ | Biography
- Stonewall Riots: The Beginning of the LGBT Movement | The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
- What Do the Colors of the New Pride Flag Mean? | Verywell Mind