Film and Television
This documentary provides a snapshot of New York City in the 1980s, highlighting voices from the African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene.
This series follows the lives of legendary figures in New York’s underground ballroom culture throughout the 1980s and 1990s, at the peak of the AIDS crisis.
This drama tells the story of Alike, a teenager living in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, experiencing first love as she struggles to express and embrace her sexual identity.
This coming-of-age drama presents the life of Chiron, a young Black man growing up in Miami, Florida, as he grapples with difficulties surrounding his sexuality and identity.
Footage of one of the earliest Gay Pride demonstration marches, the first Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade, held in New York City, New York, on June 28, 1970, to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.
Theater and Dance
Ronald Murray, also known as Father Ron 'drama' Xclusive Lanvin, takes us through the history of Ballroom culture and the language of Vogue, which was created within the LGBTQ+ community.
Latine theater makers explore how a new millennium for queer identity and storytelling took shape in the South Bronx, including Charles Rice-González, in this film from Jorge B. Merced and Pregones/PRTT.
Music and Visual Arts
For the Smithsonian’s Sidedoor podcast, host Haleema Shah tells the story of an unapologetically gay African-American performer from the 1920s Harlem Renaissance.
These images of artists, writers, playwrights, photographers, musicians, composers, dancers and poets can be found in Library of Congress collections.
These images were taken by Diana Davies in 1970, and follow the demonstration from beginning to end–Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera disseminate flyers to protestors until police disrupt the movement.
The NYU LGBTQ+ Center has curated a bi-weekly series, “Queerlists”, of songs made by LGBTQ+ artists to soundtrack your Pride Month celebrations.
