Celebrating Pride Month June 2026

Pride Month Resource List

This resource list includes articles, books, podcasts, videos, and toolkits to enhance our learning about LGBTQ+ history within American history and experiences. We encourage you to further celebrate, honor, and engage with LGBTQ+ history and find ways to support the LGBTQ+ community beyond these resources.

This is not a comprehensive list of resources and will be updated. Do you want to add a resource to this guide? Email [email protected].

Articles

• Darian Aaron, All Roads Lead to the South: Multiracial Coalition, LGBTQ Americans Turn Out for Voting Rights Rally 
• Human Rights Campaign, Two Spirit and LGBTQ Identities: Today and Centuries Ago
• GVGK Tang, Reading the Rainbow: The Origins of the Pride Symbol
• Kimberly Truong, 9 Genderqueer Communities Throughout History
• Nicole Pasulka, Ladies In The Streets: Before Stonewall, Transgender Uprising Changed Lives

Books

• J Mase III & Dane Figueroa Edidi, The Black Trans Prayer Book
• James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
• Kobabe Maia, Gender Queer: a memoir
• Lydia Rogue, ED, Transgalactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers
• Mia Mckenzie, Skye Falling
• Additional reading list from Drexel University Libraries

Podcasts

• Better Together Arizona
• Dead for Filth
• Disability After Dark
• Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast
• LGBTQ & A
• Making Gay History
• Nancy
• One from the Vault
• Still Processing
• The Read
• To the L and Back: An L Word Podcast

SCC and Maricopa Resources

• Living Queer Club (SCC Student Club)

Toolkits and Websites

• Comprehensive List of LGBTQ+ vocabulary
• GLAAD, Pride Month Resource Kit for Journalists
  • Resources
• Human Rights Campaign, Being an LGBTQ Ally
• Human Rights Watch, LGBT Rights
• PFLAG
• Planned Parenthood (“Learn” tab)
• Pronouns.org, Pronouns Matter
• Advocates for Trans Equality
  • Questionable Questions about Transgender Identity
  • Supporting the Transgender People in Your Life: A Guide to Being a Good Ally

Videos

• Alok Vaid-Menon, The Difference Between Trans Rights and Ending the Gender Binary
  • Moving Beyond the Gender Binary
• Inqueery Video Series- Inqueery is the series that takes a deeper look at the meaning, context, and history of LGBTQ+ vocabulary and culture.
  • What does Two-Spirit mean?
  • Angelica Ross Explains the History of the Word ‘Transgender’
• Natural History Museums of LA County, Beyond Gender: Indigenous Perspectives, Mapuche 

Social Media Accounts to Follow

• AC Dumlao (Instagram)
• Cecilia Chung (Facebook)
• Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu (Instagram)
• Sonalee Rashatwar (Website)
• Terisa Siagatonu (Instagram)

Local and National Organizations

• Equality Maricopa
• One-n-ten
• One Community
• PHX Pride Resources
• The Trevor Project
• Asexual Outreach
• National Center for Transgender Equality

International Organizations and Resources

• Bangladesh
  • Roopbaan
• Colombia
  • Colombia Diversa
• Dominican Republic
  • Diversidad Dominicana:
  • La Cimaronna
  • Transsa
• Ghana
  • Solace Initiative 
• Egypt
  • Solidarity With Egypt
• India
  • The Humsafar Trust
  • Udaan Trust
  • Alternatives:
    • Saura Kita
    • Fokus Muda
• South Africa
  • Africa Outreach Program
  • Triangle South Africa
• Turkey
  • KAOS GL
  • Turkey LGBT Birligi
• International
  • Amnesty International
  • Outright Action International
  • United Nations Free & Equal
• ILGA World - The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association

Author's Note: As a person who does not identify as LGBTQ+, the author of this page acknowledges that she holds a very specific and limited perspective on LGBTQ+ history, culture, and heritage.