Celebrating Pride Every Year… All Year Long

A Black Eyed Pride Parade

Twin City Pride March, 1973

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10 LGBTQIA+ Activists Who Inspire Me 

1. IMARI JONES (she/her)
   “I tell trans stories to save trans lives. Founder and CEO @translashmedia. Time 100 “Icon.” GLAAD Award Winner.
   

2. JEFFREY MARSH (they/them)
   Author and being of light✨✨✨
   

3. JAKE WESLEY ROGERS
   Every beginning begins at the finish line
   

4. AFEEF NESSOULI (he/him)
   Journalist. (Queerness and Arabness through the Lens of Palestine)
   

5. THE OLD GAYS
   Robert Reeves, Michael "Mick" Peterson, Bill Lyons, and Jessay Martin
   @robertereeves @jessay.l.martin.12 @oldgaysmick @oldgaysbill
   

6. EUGENE LEE YANG
   American filmmaker, actor, author, a founding member of the YouTube group The Try Guys lead in the animated movie Nimona.
   

7. BLACK QUEER JOY
   #Black #Queer #Joy. WE are Revolutionaries. #Unapologetic joy is the #Revolution. Founded and curated by @DalilaAliRajah
   

8. ALOK VAID-MENON (they/them)
   American writer, poet, performance artist, comedian, and media personality
   

9. JOSHUA ALLEN
   Non binary, writer, artist and activist
   

10. SCHUYLER BAILAR (he/him/his)
    Korean American Trans Activist

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9 LGBTQIA+ Books That Rearranged Me  

1. The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
   

2. How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
   

3. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
   

4. Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
   

5. Unprotected: A Memoir by Billy Porter
   

6. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
   

7. Frog and Toad: The Complete Collection by Arnold Lobel
   

8. When Aidan Became a Big Brother by Kyle Lukoff, Illustrated by Kaylani Juanita
   

9. The Black Trans Prayer Book by Dane Figueroa Edidi and J Mase III

*Honorable Mention: Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

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8 LGBTQIA+ TV Shows/Movies I Can’t Recommend Enough 

1. POSE
   FX Drama/Musical
   

2. RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE
   Reality TV
   

3. WE’RE HERE
   HBO Max Reality TV
   

4. EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE
   Amazon Prime Musical/Drama
   

5. MOONLIGHT
   Academy Award Winning Movie
   

6. EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
   Comedy/Adventure/Sci-Fi/Fantasy
   

7. PARIS IS BURNING
   Documentary 
   

8. MITCHELLS VS THE MACHINES
   Netflix Animated Movie

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Honorable Mentions:

MASTER OF NONE: SEASON THREE - Netflix Comedy/Drama Series

DAVID MAKES MAN - OWN Drama Series

QUEEN SUGAR - OWN Drama Series 

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NYC Gay Pride Day, June 1981

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7 LGBTQIA+ Vinyl Records That Move Me

1. Frank Ocean’s BLOND
   

2. Brittany Howard’s WHAT’S NOW
   

3. Tasha’s ALONE AT LAST 
   

4. Queen’s A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
   

5. Jamila Woods’ LEGACY LEGACY 
   

6. Meshell Ndegéocello’s BITTER
    

7. Elton John’s YELLOW BRICK ROAD

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Honorable Mention:

Frank Ocean’s CHANNEL ORANGE

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6 Poems By LGBTQIA+ Poets That I Return To Again & Again

1. NIKKI GIOVANNI
   Nikki-Rosa

1. DANEZ SMITH
   & even the black guy’s profile reads ‘sorry, no black guys’
   

2. JERICHO BROWN
   Bullet Points
    

3. LANGSTON HUGHES
   My People
   

4. AUDRE LORDE
   A Litany for Survival 

5. PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA
   Makebelieve

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Gay Liberation March, Chicago 1976

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5 LGBTQIA+ Hosted Podcasts I Can’t Live Without

1. MAINTENANCE PHASE
   Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes debunk the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams and nonsensical nutrition advice.
   

2. VIBE CHECK
   A weekly podcast where Sam Sanders, Saeed Jones, and Zach Stafford make sense of what’s going on in news and culture – and how it all feels.
   

3. STILL PROCESSING
   Wesley Morris and J Wortham are working it out in this weekly show about culture in the broadest sense. That means television, film, books, music — but also the culture of work, dating, the internet and how those all fit together.
   

4. HEAR TO SLAY
   Tressie McMillian Cottom & Roxane Gay’s Black feminist podcast of your dreams: compelling conversations curated the way only Black women can.
   

5. HARRY POTTER AND THE SACRED TEXT
   Harry Potter and the Sacred Text is an audio podcast founded by Vanessa Zoltan, Casper Ter Kuile, and Ariana Nedelman in which the Harry Potter books are read as a sacred text.

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4 LGBTQIA+ Friendly Neighborhoods That Welcome Our Entire Family

1. CHICAGO
   Andersonville 

2. CHICAGO
   Boystown/Lakeview/Northalsted

3. ASHEVILLE
   Downtown 

4. CLEVELAND
   Ohio City

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Gay wedding photo, Philadelphia 1957

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3 Essential LGBTQIA+ Organizations For Me

1. THE TREVOR PROJECT
   Resource Center 
   

2. HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN 
   Resources 
   

3. GLAAD 
   Trans Resources 

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2 LGBTQIA+ Makers Whose Work I Support

1. LISA CONGDON
   Artist Illustrator/Author/Podcaster
   

2. DEBBIE MILLMAN
   Graphic Designer/Author/Podcaster

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NYC Pride Parade, 1974

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1 LGBTQIA+ Human Being I Can’t Love Enough 

1. My Kid Max 🏳️‍🌈 🥰 🏳️‍⚧️ 🖤

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