Pride Month Resources
Celebrate Pride with MAP all month long!
At the core of our mission we value and celebrate diversity, inclusion and acceptance. Below are a list of some Pride Month Resources to explore.
Podcasts
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Queer America, a guide from Learning For Justice
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Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive, A Podcast from Eric Marcus.
Online Resources
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The Genderbread Person, a teaching tool for breaking the big concept of gender down into bite-sized, digestible pieces
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Marsha P. Johnson Institute, protects and defends the human rights of BLACK transgender people. We do this by organizing, advocating, creating an intentional community to heal, developing transformative leadership, and promoting our collective power.
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The Trevor Project, focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth.
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ACT UP (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power), a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals, united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis. We meet with government officials, we distribute the latest medical information, we protest and demonstrate. We are not silent.
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GLAAD - Organization that promotes acceptance in the media for the LGBTQIA Community.
Notable Historic Events
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Stonewall National Monument - Resources from the National Park Service
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Compton Cafeteria Riot NPR Codeswitch article - Ladies in the Street: Before Stonewall, Transgender Uprising Changed Lives
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Supreme Court Case, Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), this decision legalized Same-Sax marriage in the United States
Documentaries
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Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria, a documentary from historian, Susan Stryker
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How to Survive a Plague, a documentary on AIDS Epidemic
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The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, Documentary on legendary drag queen and Activist, Marsha P. Johnson
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Paris is Burning - Legendary Documentary about the Drag Scene in 1980s New York City. Heavily inspired the FX drama, Pose
Resources in Buffalo
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Madeline Davis Archives at Buffalo State
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Evergreen Health Services - Buffalo, Health Services Provider dedicated to providing care to underserved and underrepresented people in the Health Care System
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The Pride Center of WNY, located within Evergreen Health
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Gay Places, hosted by Preservation Buffalo Niagara
Primary Resources
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The Combahee River Collective (1977) - Influential Statement from a Black Lesbian Socialist organization
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The Woman Identified Woman (1970) - Article from RADICALESBIANS, a radical lesbian feminist organization
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The Well of Loneliness (1928) - Article from the New York Public Library about The U.S and England’s first published lesbian novel