In the wee hours of June 28, 1969, New York City police conducted a raid on the Stonewall, a gay nightclub in Greenwich Village. The bar’s patrons and neighbors—including legendary trans activist Marsha P. Johnson—fought back, kicking off six days of civil unrest that became a flashpoint for the burgeoning gay rights movement. In honor of the Stonewall Uprising, June is now Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month. It’s a time for celebration, for awareness, for community, and for action.
To help us all celebrate Pride Month 2023, Neon One’s employee resource group for LGBTQIA+ individuals, Neon Pride, has put together a list of LGBTQIA+ books, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and songs as a fun and enlightening media guide for June and beyond. The guide also curates organizations and resources related to each piece of media where you can learn more about the topics covered in the piece and the organizations who support them.
Although Neon Pride created this guide solely to share with their Neon One colleagues, we loved it so much that we decided to share it with you all as well. Just a heads up, a number of these works touch on mature themes and/or contain explicit content that would make them NSFW.
Enjoy!
Download the Neon Pride Media Guide
Television
- Pose (Hulu)
- Sense8 (Netflix)
- Q-Force (Netflix)
- Yellowjackets (Paramount+ with Showtime)
- Legendary (The Roku Channel, Tubi)
Movies
- Moonlight (Max)
- Pride (Paramount+ with Showtime)
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Hulu)
- But I’m a Cheerleader (Amazon Prime Video, The Roku Channel, Tubi)
- The Favourite (Rent or Buy Online)
- Spoiler Alert (Rent or Buy Online)
- The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (Netflix)
- How Do I Look (Amazon Prime Video)
Podcasts
- Pivot
- Welcome to Night Vale
- Dyking Out
- Las Culturistas
- Food for Thot
- Nancy
- Buffering the Vampire Slayer
Books
- Trans: A Memoir by Juliet Jacques
- You Gotta Be You by Brandon Kyle Goodman
- She/He/They/Me by Robyn Royle
- Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell
- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele
- Queer Love in Color by Jamal Jordan
- The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
- Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
- The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
Music
Check out the Neon Pride playlist on Spotify, featuring over 8 hours of songs from artists like Janelle Monae, Frank Ocean, Kylie Minogue and many more!
Related Resources
- Black AIDS Institute (Pose)
- Rainbow Railroad (Sense8)
- Prism Comics (Q-Force)
- You Can Play (Yellowjackets)
- Ballroom, We Care (Legendary)
- The Trevor Project (Moonlight)
- Unite UK (Pride)
- Queer Cultural Center (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
- It Gets Better Project (But I’m a Cheerleader)
- GLBT Historical Society (The Favourite)
- Rainbow Hospice (Spoiler Alert)
- Marsha P. Johnson Institute (The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson)
- Sylvia Rivera Law Project (The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson)
- The Audre Lorde Project (How Do I Look)
- The Okra Project (How Do I Look)
- Out in Tech (Pivot)
- INCITE! (Dyking Out)
- The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (Las Culturistas)
- The Brown Boi Project (Food for Thot)
- National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (Nancy)
- Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (Buffering the Vampire Slayer)
- National Center for Transgender Equality (Trans: A Memoir)
- Transgender Law Center (You Gotta Be You)
- LA LGBT Center (You Gotta Be You)
- Lambda Literary (Pillow Thoughts)
- Gaaays in Spaaace (She/He/They/Me)
- Committee on LGBT History (Queer: A Graphic History)
- Black Visions Collective (Queer Love in Color)
- True Colors United (The City We Became)
- National Coalition Against Censorship (Gender Queer: A Memoir)
- Chapter 510 (The Prince and the Dressmaker)
- ACLU’s Drag Defense Fund (The Prince and the Dressmaker)
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