WATCH: Slam Poetry: Calling out Mainstream Feminism CLICK HERE TO VIEW Feminism might be all about equality, but these Denver-based slam poets point out all women aren't always heard. Ashia…
READ: Learn about Katherine Johnson (6-12) CLICK HERE TO VIEW Life Story: Katherine Johnson (1918–2020) NASA Mathematician - The story of a Black mathematician whose calculations contributed significantly to American…
WATCH: Hidden Figures | Storytime Read Aloud (3-5) CLICK HERE TO VIEW Join us for storytime as illustrator Laura Freeman reads the picture book version of Hidden Figures, the incredibly…
WATCH: What a Wonderful World - Playing for Change (3-5) CLICK HERE TO VIEW Playing For Change is proud to present this video of the song "What A Wonderful World"…
READ: Queer Portraits in History CLICK HERE TO VIEW A compendium of queer people in the 19th and 20th centuries.
WATCH: Everybody’s Welcome (K-2) CLICK HERE TO VIEW Fans of the New York Times bestseller All Are Welcome will love this timely tale about kindess, empathy, and charity, with clever…
WATCH: Love is Powerful By Heather Dean Brewer (3-5) CLICK HERE TO VIEW A little girl carries a big message—and finds it thrillingly amplified by the rallying crowd around her—in…
PARTICIPATE: CenterLink, The Community of LGBTQ Centers CLICK HERE TO VIEW CenterLink is an international nonprofit organization and member-based association of LGBTQ centers and other LGBTQ organizations serving their local…
WATCH: A Queer Vision of Love and Marriage CLICK HERE TO VIEW Love is a tool for revolutionary change and a path toward inclusivity and understanding for the LGBTQ+ community.…
PARTICIPATE: The Smithsonian American Art Museum - Pride Family Zone Art Activities CLICK HERE TO VIEW Visit this page throughout the month for craft activities, coloring pages, video performances, and…
READ: How Frank Ocean changed everything with 'Channel Orange' CLICK HERE TO VIEW Frank Ocean's debut studio album "Channel Orange" was released on July 10, 2012. The album was immediately…
LISTEN: Channel Orange CLICK HERE TO VIEW Channel Orange is the debut studio album by American R&B singer-songwriter Frank Ocean. It was released on July 10, 2012, by Def Jam…
WATCH: How to Survive a Plague CLICK HERE TO VIEW How To Survive A Plague is the untold story of the efforts that turned AIDS into a mostly manageable condition…
READ: Six Times Journalists on the Paper’s History of Covering AIDS and Gay Issues CLICK HERE TO VIEW The New York Times had a spotty record of covering the AIDS…
WATCH: My Own Superhero (3-5) CLICK HERE TO VIEW A song to empower every child.
LISTEN: Coming Out - It is a Process! CLICK HERE TO VIEW Heather Hester discusses the six stages of the Cass Model of Coming Out and shares personal experiences along…
WATCH: Out & Proud in Chicago CLICK HERE TO VIEW Jane Lynch hosts this documentary about the history of Chicago's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
WATCH: Why Gender Pronouns Matter CLICK HERE TO VIEW "My pronouns are they/them/theirs, and that's a non-negotiable...they're so important because they are the smallest and easiest way that you can…
READ: A Guide To Gender Identity Terms CLICK HERE TO VIEW Issues of equality and acceptance of transgender and nonbinary people — along with challenges to their rights — have…
LISTEN: Becoming the First Pride Flag CLICK HERE TO VIEW Girl Tales Podcast: Nova is a kid scientist who time travels to exciting moments in history where she becomes different…
READ: This Little Rainbow (K-5) CLICK HERE TO VIEW Now even the youngest readers can learn all about important people who are from or helped support the LGBTQIA+ community! Highlighting…
READ: The History of the Rainbow Flag (BBC) CLICK HERE TO VIEW Designed by artist Gilbert Baker at the request of San Francisco City Supervisor and first openly gay elected…
WATCH: President Obama Tells the Story of PFLAG CLICK HERE TO VIEW President Obama shares the story of Jeanne Manford and PFLAG.
PARTICIPATE: Coming Out: Information for Parents of LGBTQ Teens CLICK HERE TO VIEW "Coming out" is a lifelong journey of understanding, acknowledging and sharing one's gender identity and/or sexual orientation…
WATCH: Mom and Son Talk About His Future As A Transgender CLICK HERE TO VIEW Gabe remembers when things really changed for him as a transgender kid. With his mother…
LISTEN: Why We Remember Stonewall CLICK HERE TO VIEW Fifty years after the Stonewall Uprising, we look at what happened that night, through the voices of people who were there.…
WATCH: Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement CLICK HERE TO VIEW (Site) CLICK HERE TO VIEW (Extended Trailer) When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay…
WATCH: How the Stonewall Riots Sparked a Movement CLICK HERE TO VIEW When Liam Cooper, a non-binary teenager, must face the world alone after his older brother Ethan is killed…
LISTEN: Making Gay History - Dear Abby CLICK HERE TO VIEW To understand how a heterosexual, Jewish, Midwestern daughter of a Russian immigrant singlehandedly influenced how Americans thought about gay…
READ: Six of Crows (Young Adult) CLICK HERE TO VIEW Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that…
WATCH: The Big Umbrella by Amy June Bates - Read Aloud: Stories with Star (K-2) CLICK HERE TO VIEW “A subtle, deceptively simple book about inclusion, hospitality, and welcoming the…
PARTICIPATE: Follow Ashlee Marie Preston on Instagram CLICK HERE TO VIEW As the first trans woman to become editor in chief of a national publication and the first openly trans…
WATCH: Fifty Shades of Gay CLICK HERE TO VIEW Tillett Wright has photographed 2,000 people who consider themselves somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum -- and asked many of them: Can…
PARTICIPATE: Effective Allyship: A Transgender Take on Intersectionality | Ashlee Marie Preston | TEDxPasadena CLICK HERE TO VIEW Host, commentator, and activist, Ashlee Marie Preston teaches that when we talk…
READ: The Journey to Marriage Equality in the United States CLICK HERE TO VIEW From gathering supporters in small towns across the country to rallying in front of the Supreme…
PARTICIPATE: National Day of Silence in USA CLICK HERE TO VIEW National Day of Silence is observed in April each year as a movement against the harassment and bullying of…
WATCH: The Freedom to Marry CLICK HERE TO VIEW (Site) CLICK HERE TO VIEW (Extended Trailer) An award winning feature documentary that reveals the same sex marriage movement through…
LISTEN: Radically Normal: How Gay Rights Activists Changed The Minds Of Their Opponents CLICK HERE TO VIEW This week on Hidden Brain, the psychological strategies behind one of the most…
WATCH: Mary Wears What She Wants (3-5) CLICK HERE TO VIEW Join Theresa of the Children's Museum of Sonoma County, as she reads aloud "Mary Wears What She Wants" by…
READ: History of LGBTQ+ History Month CLICK HERE TO VIEW LGBTQ+ History Month is in October and each year we mark it with spectacular events celebrating the history and achievements…
EXPERIENCE: 50 Years of PRIDE CLICK HERE TO VIEW On June 27, 1970, a small group of LGBTQ people marched down Polk Street—then San Francisco’s most prominent queer neighborhood—to mark…
WATCH: Our Diversity Makes Us Stronger by Elizabeth Cole (3-5) CLICK HERE TO VIEW If you want to teach your child to accept himself and others as they are,…
WATCH: So Many Colors, So Many Shapes (K-2) CLICK HERE TO VIEW A while back, a mom of a young toddler asked us to write a song about ethnic diversity. …
EXPERIENCE: The GLSEN Network CLICK HERE TO VIEW Student leaders are the most valuable, powerful base of action that exists in our country today. When students lead the way, real…
WATCH: What the Gay Rights Movement Learned from the Civil Rights Movement CLICK HERE TO VIEW As a member of both the African American and LGBT communities, filmmaker Yoruba Richen…
LISTEN: Come Out, Come Out CLICK HERE TO VIEW Mo Welch’s show is a helpful guide to all kinds of LGBTQ growing pains. In each episode, her quests open up…
WATCH: In a Heartbeat CLICK HERE TO VIEW "In a Heartbeat" - Animated Short Film by Beth David and Esteban Bravo. A closeted boy runs the risk of being outed…
WATCH: All Are Welcome - Read Aloud Picture Book (K-2) CLICK HERE TO VIEW Follow a group of children through a day in their school, where everyone is welcomed with…
WATCH: A Good Man CLICK HERE TO VIEW Bryan Wilmoth and his seven younger siblings were raised in a strict, religious home. At StoryCorps, Bryan talks with his brother Mike…
PARTICIPATE: Follow Billy Porter on Instagram CLICK HERE TO VIEW He is renowned for his showstopping red-carpet outfits but Billy Porter’s influence reaches much further than his fashion style. The…
EXPERIENCE: Lakeside Pride Jazz Orchestra's Accentuate the Positive CLICK HERE TO VIEW Join us on a voyage into the inner mind with the Lakeside Pride Symphonic Band’s Spring 2024 concert.…
WATCH: The Half of It CLICK HERE TO VIEW A shy, introverted, Chinese-American, straight-A student finds herself helping the school jock woo the girl they both secretly love. In the…
LISTEN: QUEERY with Cameron Esposito - Guest Alice Wu CLICK HERE TO VIEW Filmmaker Alice Wu sits down with Cameron to discuss her new movie The Half Of It (coming…
READ: The Battle of Spanish Fork CLICK HERE TO VIEW Federal law prohibits employment discrimination founded on race, religion, gender, national identity, disability, and age. No such federal legal protection…
READ: How to Become a Planet (Young Adult) CLICK HERE TO VIEW After she is diagnosed with anxiety and depression, 13-year-old Pluto Timoney, who carries with her an endless curiosity…
RAD COMMUNITY EVENT: How to be an Ally CLICK HERE TO VIEW A space to celebrate LGBTQ+ month, identities and stories through a color. Rainbow Run concludes with an after-party…
EXPERIENCE: Performance, Protest, & Politics: The Art of Gilbert Baker CLICK HERE TO VIEW Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1970, he was stationed in San Francisco as a medic.…
LISTEN: Making Gay History - Wendell Sayers CLICK HERE TO VIEW Wendell Sayers was born in Western Kansas on April 29, 1904, and died on March 27, 1998. He was,…
READ: Adventures with My Daddies (K-5) CLICK HERE TO VIEW "My daddies are amazing. They're funny, kind, and smart. And when they read me stories...exciting journeys start!" Set off on…
WATCH: Miss Liz reads Adventures with My Daddies (K-5) CLICK HERE TO VIEW In today’s virtual storytime we read “Adventures With My Daddies” by Gareth Peter, illustrated by Garry Parsons.…
WATCH: The Cabbage Butterfly CLICK HERE TO VIEW About this Poem During the years that I wrote and revised this poem, my lover, and ultimately spouse, was gravely ill. Her…
WATCH: The Saint of Dry Creek CLICK HERE TO VIEW Patrick Haggerty grew up the son of a dairy farmer in rural Dry Creek, Washington, during the 1950s. As a…
LISTEN: Latinos Who Lunch Podcast CLICK HERE TO VIEW Latinos Who Lunch is a podcast that was created to provide a digital media platform that reflects the intersectionality between queer,…
LISTEN: Making Gay History - Jeanne & Morty Manford CLICK HERE TO VIEW By the time Jeanne Manford’s gay son Morty was beaten up at a 1972 protest, she had…
WATCH: Love, No Matter What CLICK HERE TO VIEW What is it like to raise a child who's different from you in some fundamental way (like a prodigy, or a…
READ: The Exhausting Work of LGBTQ Code-Switching CLICK HERE TO VIEW Queer, trans, and non-binary people have to do the extra work of changing how they speak, act and express…
LISTEN: 81 Words CLICK HERE TO VIEW The story of how the American Psychiatric Association decided in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness.
READ: Matthew Shepard Foundation CLICK HERE TO VIEW What is it like to raise a child who's different from you in some fundamental way (like a prodigy, or a differently…
WATCH: The Laramie Project CLICK HERE TO VIEW The true story of an American town in the wake of the murder of Matthew Shepard.
READ: Matthew Shepard: The murder that changed America CLICK HERE TO VIEW The death of a gay student, tortured and tied to a prairie fence in Wyoming two decades ago,…
EXPERIENCE: The Trevor Project CLICK HERE TO VIEW The Trevor Project is the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention nonprofit organization for LGBTQ+ young people. We provide information & support…
EXPERIENCE: Illegal to Be You CLICK HERE TO VIEW This website is based on an exhibition that opened at the National Museum of American History in June 2019. Objects pictured…
LISTEN: Where We Were Then, Where We Are Now CLICK HERE TO VIEW The 20 years since Matthew Shepard's death have been transformative for his mother, Judy. Plus: we talk…
READ: Being an LGBTQ Ally CLICK HERE TO VIEW From the Human Rights Campaign: Being an LGBTQ+ Ally is designed to help build understanding and comfort. If you are new…
WATCH: #GotYourBack: Students tell GLAAD what makes a good LGBT ally CLICK HERE TO VIEW GLAAD interviewed students at three colleges about what qualities in a person make them a…
LISTEN: Can A Child Be Raised Free Of Gender Stereotypes? This Family Tried CLICK HERE TO VIEW This week on Hidden Brain, the story of a couple and the challenges…
READ: The Ghosts We Keep (Young Adult) CLICK HERE TO VIEW When Liam Cooper, a non-binary teenager, must face the world alone after his older brother Ethan is killed in…
WATCH: The Myth of the Gay Agenda CLICK HERE TO VIEW In a funny talk with an urgent message, LZ Granderson points out the absurdity in the idea that there's a "gay lifestyle," much less a "gay agenda." What's actually on his agenda? Being a good partner -- and being a good parent.
LISTEN: Nature, Nurture, And Our Evolving Debates About Gender CLICK HERE TO VIEW This week, we delve into debates over gender and the role of nature and nurture. Plus, we'll…
PARTICIPATE: Chicago Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Kickoff & Business Expo CLICK HERE TO VIEW Come join us at the PNC Centre, 1 North Franklin Street, Chicago, IL, USA for a fantastic event celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! Connect with professionals, explore business opportunities, and immerse yourself in a rich cultural experience. Don't miss…
WATCH: Are You “AAPI” or “Asian American”? It's Complicated. CLICK HERE TO VIEW How many A’s in AAPI? Dolly & Adrian hear from South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander voices to explore the pros and cons of disaggregating Asian Americans as a statistical category.
EXPERIENCE: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month CLICK HERE TO VIEW May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of Asian and…
READ: How One Woman's Story Led to the Creation of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month CLICK HERE TO VIEW Read the history of how the celebration of Asian Pacific American…
RAD COMMUNITY EVENT: Asian Fusion Festival Huntley RAD will be wrapping up the school year with its May Community Event celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage and culture. It will be held Friday, May 3rd from 4:30-6:30 at Marlowe Middle School. Our celebration will include a performance, food, music, games, crafts, and more. This…
READ: 25 Amazing Children’s Books Celebrating Asian Culture CLICK HERE TO VIEW Looking for ways to introduce your child to the rich tapestry of Asian American cultures? Dive into the…
READ: Asian American Voices in Poetry CLICK HERE TO VIEW This collection is intended to introduce new readers to Asian American poets and to help those who are interested in…