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Together: #PRIDE

Pride is an event observed in many towns and cities across the UK and the world, celebrating LGBTQIA+ individuals and promoting self-affirmation, equality and increased visibility.

Celebration of LGBTQIA+ individuals and communities in public forums and spaces would not have been possible without the activism of communities such as the Stonewall Inn patrons. The Stonewall Riots, New York 1969, form the cradle of the modern LGBT rights movement and the Inn is an icon of Queer culture.

For more information on why UnitedKpop have compiled this archive please read our introduction to TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER.

This, and other archives we create, will be ever-growing. We also acknowledge the importance of our audience as part of our community, and you too can contribute to this archive and the education of our team and the greater community at the bottom of this page.

ARCHIVE

UNDERSTANDING AND ACTIVISM

DONATION

ESSENTIAL READING

Articles

Factual/Non-Fiction

  • Queer: A Graphic History – Meg-John Barker
  • The Stonewall Reader – Jason Baumann
  • Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution – Susan Stryker

Fiction for adults and young adults

  • The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
  • The Color Purple – Alice Walker
  • Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugene’s
  • Orlando – Virginia Woolf
  • Will Grayson, Will Grayson – David Levithan and John Green
  • Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda – Becky Albertalli
  • All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages by Saundra Mitchell
  • If I was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
  • Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee
  • None of the Above by I.W. Gegorio
  • Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
  • Boy Meets Boy by David Leviathan
  • The Summer I wasn’t Me by Jessica Verdi
  • Drama by Taina Telgmeier
  • Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
  • The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
  • Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
  • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Fiction for Children 

  • And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, illustrated by Henry Cole
  • Made by Raffi By Craig Pomranz, illustrated by Margaret Chamberlain
  • Mommy, Mamma and Me by Leslea Newman, Illustrated by Carol Thompson
  • We Are Family by Patricia Hegarty, illustrated by Ryan Wheatcroft

ESSENTIAL WATCHING

  • Paris is Burning – Jennie Livingston
  • Tomboy – Celine Sciamma
  • Weekend – Andrew Haigh
  • The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson – David France
  • Pride – Matthew Warchus
  • The Miseducation of Cameron Post – Desiree Akhavan 
  • The Half of It – Alice Wu 
  • Handsome Devil – John Butler 
  • Carol – Todd Hayes 
  • Disobedience – Sebastián Lelio
  • Colette – Wash Westmoreland
  • Alex Strangelove – Craig Johnson
  • The Perfection – Richard Shepard
  • Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga –  Shelly Chopra Dhar
  • Fire – Deepa Mehta
  • Dear Ex –  Mag Hsu, Hsu Chih-yen
  • The Handmaiden – Park Chan-Wook 
  • But I’m a Cheerleader – Jamie Babbit
  • A Secret Love – Chris Bolan
  • The Happy Prince – Rupert Everett
  • Dating Amber – David Freyne
  • Elisa & Marcela – Isabel Coixet
  • Professor Marston and the Wonder Women – Angela Robinson

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