LGBTQ+ Resources

• The New York Times’ The ABCs of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ (a quick-read primer on basic identities)

• Human Right’s Campaign’s Glossary (quick and handy for referencing)

• PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)’s National Glossary of Terms (goes deeper into gender topics)

• It’s Pronounced Metrosexual’s Comprehensive List of LGBTQ+ Vocabulary Definitions (the most comprehensive list!)

• Conscious Style Guide’s Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Guide (great resources for journalists, reporters, anyone who’s writing about sex and /gender)

• Progressive Style Guide

• 15+ Fantastic Resources for Talking about Homosexuality and The Bible

• 17 Lies We Need to Stop Telling Girls About Sex

• 17 Lies We Need to Stop Telling Boys About Sex

• 30+ Examples of Christian Privilege

• 30+ Examples of Cisgender Privilege

• 30+ Examples of Heterosexual Privilege in the US

• 30+ Examples of Male Privilege

• 30+ Examples of Middle-to-Upper Class Privilege

• 5 Reasons Why So Many People Believe Feminism Hates Men and Why They’re Not True

• Anti-Oppression and the Fight for LGBTQ Equality

• Breaking through the binary: Gender explained using continuums

• Butch, Please

• Everyone is Gay

• GLSEN Think B4 You Speak

• Leading Effective Classroom Discussions on Controversial Topics

• Meg Allen’s “Butch” photo project

• Genderqueer.me

• NPR’s Men In America series

• On Trans* Safety in Public Bathrooms

• The Parents Project

• Scoop.It Gender and Education

• What does the asterisk in “trans*” stand for?

• What I Be

• Words we Don’t Use

• When You’re Having a Religious Argument, Dr. Robert N. Minor (PDF)

• When Religion is an Addiction, Dr. Robert N. Minor

• Scared Straight: Why It’s So Hard to Accept Gay People, and Why It’s So Hard to Be Human, Dr. Robert N. Minor

• What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality, Daniel A. Helminiak

• Going to Argue Scripture with Someone? Here's One Thing Never to Say —January 3, 2020

• When Homophobia Is the Prejudice Through Which You Interpret the Bible —January 18, 2020

• Maybe Jesus Actually Did Say Something About Homosexuality After All — February 5, 2020

• Who Are Those 'Eunuchs Who Have Been So from Birth' in the Gospel of Matthew? — May 16, 2020

• What Does the Biblical Legend of Jonathan and David's Same-Sex Relationship Say About Homophobia? — March 5, 2020

• What Would a Same-Sex Relationship Between Two Women Look Like in the Bible? — April 11, 2020

• The Christmas Story Is About Who's In and Who's Out — December 24, 2019

• Invisible Majority: The Disparaties Facing Bisexual People and How to Remedy Them

• A Closer Look: Bisexual Transgender People

• Bisexual adults are far less likely than gay men and lesbians to be ‘out’ to the people in their lives

• Health Disparities Among Bisexual People

• Exploring the Intersectionality of Bisexual, Religious/Spiritual, and Political Identities from a Feminist Perspective

• Between a Gay and a Straight Place: Bisexual Individuals’ Experiences with Monosexism

• Early Childhood Development – Your Options –How Do I Know If My Child Is Transgender?, National Association of Social Workers.

• A Guide for Understanding, Supporting, and Affirming LGBTQI2-S Children, Youth, and Families, American Institutes for Research (2014).

• Moving the Margins:
Training Curriculum for Child Welfare Services, Lambda Legal (presentation slides)

• A Home Within, a national nonprofit dedicated to meeting the emotional needs of foster youth.

• Working with Homeless LGBTQ Youth, Lambda Legal.

• FAQs for transgender youth, from Lambda Legal.

• Know Your Rights! A Guide for LGBTQ High School Students

• Just the Facts About Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators and School Personnel

• The Unfair Criminalization of Gay and Transgender Youth: This research brief by the Center for American Progress

• https://www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/trevor-support-center/a-guide-to-being-an-ally-to-transgender-and-nonbinary-youth/

• Queer Umbrella Handout

• What to do When Someone Comes Out of the Closet Handout

• LGBTQ+ Language DOs and DON’Ts Handout

• Genderbread Person v4.1 Activity

• Building Support for Schools that Openly Affirm the Diversity of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (PDF)

• Open Letter to Schools About Addressing Anti-LGBTQ Bullying

• The Cost of Harassment: A Fact Sheet for LGBTQ High School Students

• the guide to being a trans ally

• Our Trans Loved Ones

• As a Trans Ally I will... Card

• 10 Things You Can Do to Be Trans Ally

• Breaking Binaries Worksheet

• Pronouns: Beyond the Basics

• Pronouns: Why They Matter

• Something to Talk About & Talking Inclusively

• Bisexuality+ 101: Questions to Ask Yourself to Become a Better Bi+ Ally (PDF)

• Something to Talk About Live - July 2, 2020

• Something to Talk About Live - March 4, 2021

• 3 Steps to Being a Better Ally to People Who Are Bi+

• Answers to Your Questions About Transgender Individuals and Gender Identity

• Answers to Your Questions For A Better Understanding of Sexual Orientation and Homosexuality

• Radical Readings for the Revolution (Clickable links to PDF versions of each book)

• Transgender History by Susan Stryker

• Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown

• Freedom is a constant struggle: Ferguson. Palestine, and The Foundations of Movement by Angela Y. Davis

• Stay Solid!: A Radical Handbook for Youth by Matt Hern

• Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

• Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene A. Carruthers

• Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex edited by Eric A. Stanley & Nat Smith, foreword by CeCeMcDonald

• Against Equality: Queer Revolution Not Mere Inclusion edited by Ryan Conrad

• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

• Queer: A Graphic History by Dr. Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele

• Orlando by Virginia Woolf

• Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation by Jim Downs

• Born Both by Hida Viloria

• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

• Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence by Marion Dane Bauer

• The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. danforth

• Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls by Lindsay King-Miller

• Calypso by David Sedaris

• Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman

• Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned by Judd Winick

• Invisible Life by E. Lynn Harris

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

• Luna by Julie Anne Peters

• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

• Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman

• · I Am Jonas (2018)

• · Circus of Books (2019)

• · The Boys in the Band (2020)

• · Edge of Seventeen (1998)

  • Your Name Engraved Herein (2020)

• · Alex Strangelove (2018)

• · The Prom (2020)

• · Other People (2016)

• · The Danish Girl (2015)

• · Loev (2015)

• · Holding the Man (2015)

• · Elisa & Marcela (2019)

• · The Watermelon Woman (1996)

· The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)

• · The Color Purple (1985)

  • Screaming Queens

  • Major!

  • Paris is Burning

  • Disclosure

  • Brother Outsider

  • I Am Not Your Negro

  • “Do I Sound Gay?” Documentary

  • The Mask We Live In Documentary

• SEX+ A Frank Video Series About Sexuality with Laci Green Youtube Channel

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1oOYD6fuGI

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCXY4RVPcW4

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbK9roswGRw

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dg86g-QlM0

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxHHstcyP4I