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Watch the online lecture, “LGBTQ+ Terminology and Issues.” This is a primer on LGBTQ terminology and issues to help orient you to the content this week. Queer story Lecture, part 1: Queer story Lecture, part 2: Click here to (YouTube was having issues with copyright infringement and wouldn’t let me upload the video the usual way). Read by Susan Stryker. Watch this short inspiring video about the group STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), and Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, activists for transgender liberation: LECTURE READING This is about the Stonewall Riots of 1969, often referred to as the spark for gay liberation. Every year Pride parades are held at the end of June specifically to commemorate the riots at the Stonewall Inn. This is the entire documentary. You can get extra credit for watching this or reading or watching any of what follows. This is a documentary made by Susan Stryker about the Compton Cafeteria riots in San Francisco in 1966, which she spends some time discussing in your reading. This documentary chronicles LGBTQ history before the Stonewall riots of 1969. Here’s the entire documentary on YouTube. A much better quality version can be found on Kanopy t

hrough the This discusses some key moments in queer history after the Stonewall riots. This is the trailer — watch the whole thing on This documentary is about Marsha Johnson, a key figure in transgender history. an NPR show. Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson were good friends as activists for the rights of trans* people in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s. (This one is too short for extra credit). Here’s a song I remember liking several years ago but was just reminded of. Thought I’d share something different. This is a new TV series on HBO! It’s a fictionalized account about the life of Anne Lister, an out, masculine-of-center lesbian in 19th century England, who kept a very detailed–and explicit–diary. I saw the first episode recently, and thought it was excellent. Like about the Civil Rights Movement leader; about queerness in Hollywood; How about the AIDS epidemic; about the queer black ball scene in New York City in the 1980s; about the struggle for marriage equality in Vermont; , a series of documentary short films celebrating the lives of trans* pioneers; and on and on. If you have recommendations for documentaries or books, let me know (or post them in the discussion forum).