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Celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride Month 
LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

June is Pride month, the time of year when we celebrate the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history locally, nationally, and internationally. It’s a great time to recognize the contributions of your LGBTQIA+ peers, learn a little bit more about LGBTQIA+ history, celebrate diversity, and consider the ways that you can contribute to creating a more inclusive society. 

 

Buffalo Toronto Public Media is committed to telling stories of our diverse community and is excited to celebrate Pride Month with a special collection of LGBTQ+ programming and resources.

 

Whether you’re headed to a Pride festival, gathering in your backyard with friends or spending some quiet time at home, we hope you enjoy your celebrations. 

 BTPM was at The Buffalo Pride Parade and Pride Festival walking with allies and friends in the spirit of love and inclusivity!

BRAVE SPACES - A New Series from WNED PBS & PBS Digital Studios

Stories of LGBTQ+ triumph in spaces, and because of them.

 

How do you see yourself? Who do you love? Where do you belong? 

Answering these questions is a huge part of discovering who you are. But what do you do when you’re denied the space to explore your identity?  

Welcome to Brave Spaces, an eight-part video series hosted by Devin-Norelle, a model, trans advocate and writer, here to share stories of triumph, transformation and celebration!

In the face of policies designed to exclude queer folk, they are shattering barriers and claiming their own spaces: from book clubs resisting efforts to erase their stories, to sports leagues making competition accessible to all!

Join zim as we meet courageous heroes who have stood up to centuries of hate in order to shape a world where love always wins. These are more than just safe spaces.  These are Brave Spaces. 

WNED Classical Celebrates Pride Month

WNED CLassicl celebrate Black History Month

In celebration of Pride Month, this month WNED Classical will shine a special spotlight on the lives and works LGBTQIA+ community members, and many of the invaluable contributions they have made to classical music. From Copland to Corelli, we celebrate some of the greatest LGBTQIA+ composers in classical music history. Tune in at 94.5 WNED in Buffalo and  89.7 WNJA in Jamestown,  stream from this website and through the WNED Classical app.

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Tchaikovsky’s Lesson For Pride

People love Tchaikovsky’s music. Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, the symphonies, and his violin and piano concertos are heard regularly in concert halls and on WNED Classical – and his Nutcracker Ballet is a Christmas tradition around the world. Yes, people love Tchaikovsky’s music. But some people don’t love Tchaikovsky “the whole human being.” Either they deny that he was gay, or they attribute any negative quality he may have had to his sexuality.

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Laugh At, Pity, & Fear No More

I watched The Celluloid Closet last night. It is a 1995 documentary film based on a book by Vito Russo. It surveys the various Hollywood screen depictions of LGBTQs and the attitudes behind them. According to the filmmakers, audiences were to laugh at, pity, or fear “queers.” LGBTQs were either completely defined by their sexual orientations, with no character development, or their sexualities were not explicit, but implied through stereotypical looks, speech, and behavior. 

Watch Pride Month Programming on WNED PBS

Monday, June 12th at 9pm

Queer Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley has had a profound impact on the LGBTQ+ movement in the United States. 

 

Friday, June 16th at 8pm

Miriam and Alan Lost in Scotland

Miriam and Alan are back rip-roaring across Scotland... and beyond! They ride the Harry Potter Express steam train and head to the glorious Cairngorms National Park before Alan conducts an LGBTQ+ wedding.

 

Friday, June 16th at 9pm

Prideland

Actor Dyllon Burnside journeys across the South to meet diverse members of the LGBTQ community.

 

Friday, June 16th at 10pm

Whistle

The fascinating story of a secret code created by and shared among young lesbians in 1970s & 80s Albuquerque as a means of self-identification and finding community. The first-person film documents and reveals humorous and heartbreaking stories, often told in the same breath.

 

Saturday, June 17th at 2:30pm

Dear Ike: Lost Letters to a Teen Idol

A young boy with fantasies of one day making animated movies with his teen idol (1970s Disney star, Ike Eisenmann) follows that dream on what turns out to be an incredible 40-year odyssey.

 

Saturday, June 17th at 3:30pm

Queer Silicon Valley

From its early beginnings in a 1970s vibrant bar scene through the challenges posed by AIDS and the religious right, the fight for political representation and marriage equality, to what it was like to come out in the high tech industry, Queer Silicon Valley casts a fresh lens on a not well known but significant history.

 

Saturday, June 17th at 4:30pm

 The Lodge

A retirement community especially created for LGBTQ seniors and their allies is showcased

 

Saturday, June 17th at 5pm

Whistle

The fascinating story of a secret code created by and shared among young lesbians in 1970s & 80s Albuquerque as a means of self-identification and finding community. The first-person film documents and reveals humorous and heartbreaking stories, often told in the same breath.

 

Sunday, June 18th at 11pm

Independent Lens | Cured

When homosexuality was considered a mental illness to be "cured," renegade LGBTQ+ activists fought a powerful psychiatry establishment that had things dangerously backwards.

 

Monday, June 19th at 2am

Stonewall Uprising American Experience

Explore the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights movement. Told by those who took part, from drag queens and street hustlers to police detectives, journalists and a former mayor of New York, and featuring a rich trove of archival footage, this film revisits a time when homosexual acts were illegal throughout America, and homosexuality itself was seen as a form of mental illness.

 

Monday, June 19th at 3:30am

The Lodge

A retirement community especially created for LGBTQ seniors and their allies is showcased.

 

Monday, June 19th at 4am

Unidad: Gay and Lesbian Latinos and Unidos

Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos (GLLU) was founded in 1981, only a dozen years after the Stonewall rebellion and only a couple of years before the HIV/AIDS pandemic began to ravage LGBTQ communities. GLLU was the greater Los Angeles area's first major Queer Latin@ organization, and the film chronicles events surrounding GLLU at a pivotal time in the history of LGBTQ equality, women's rights, and civil rights movements that shaped the destinies of GLLU's communities for decades to come.

 

Monday, June 19th at 10pm

It’s a Match

The story of Alana and Lori - two LGBT 20-somethings looking for love online when a casual right swipe made a match that would bind them together forever.

 

Tuesday, June 20th at 12am

Miriam and Alan Lost in Scotland

Miriam and Alan are back rip-roaring across Scotland... and beyond! They ride the Harry Potter Express steam train and head to the glorious Cairngorms National Park before Alan conducts an LGBTQ+ wedding.

 

Tuesday, June 20th at 9pm

Stonewall Uprising American Experience

Explore the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights movement. Told by those who took part, from drag queens and street hustlers to police detectives, journalists and a former mayor of New York, and featuring a rich trove of archival footage, this film revisits a time when homosexual acts were illegal throughout America, and homosexuality itself was seen as a form of mental illness.

 

Tuesday, June 20th at 10:30pm

The Lodge

A retirement community especially created for LGBTQ seniors and their allies is showcased.

 

 

Thursday, June 22nd at 12am

Stonewall Uprising American Experience

Explore the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights movement. Told by those who took part, from drag queens and street hustlers to police detectives, journalists and a former mayor of New York, and featuring a rich trove of archival footage, this film revisits a time when homosexual acts were illegal throughout America, and homosexuality itself was seen as a form of mental illness.

 

Thursday, June 22nd at 1:30am

The Lodge

A retirement community especially created for LGBTQ seniors and their allies is showcased.

 

Thursday, June 22nd at 3am

LA: A Queer Story | Culture & Criminalization

From artists who helped shape early Hollywood to the male/female impersonators in the "pansy clubs", early Hollywood becomes a Queer destination for people wanting a new life. Early LGBTQ culture and community begins to take shape just as the post WW2 era sparks widespread criminalization.

 

Thursday, June 22nd at 4am

LA: A Queer Story | Protests & Parades

Despite adversity, gay and lesbian organizing begins. Publications, protests and uprisings spring up, leading to the country's first Pride Parade, LGBTQ Social Services, the first "Gay City" and an eventual national Civil Rights Movement.

 

Friday, June 23rd at 4:30am

The Committee

The Committee is a documentary film about the little-known Florida Legislative Investigative Committee of the State Legislature from 1956-1965. Florida Senator Charley Johns chaired the committee, and its aim was to root out communist and homosexual teachers and students from state universities. It was successful in either firing or expelling more than 200 suspected gay and lesbian citizens.

 

Friday, June 23rd at 8pm

Miriam and Alan Lost in Scotland

Miriam and Alan head to the Isle of Skye for a magical boat trip and some wand whittling, before visiting a Jewish, LGBTQ+, vegan, anarchist cafe in Glasgow. Miriam and Alan finally end up in the U.S. to begin the American leg of their travels.

 

Sunday, June 25th at 11pm

Independent Lens | Mama Bears

Although they grew up as fundamentalist, evangelical Christians, these moms are now willing to risk losing friends, family, and faith communities to keep their kids safe-even if it challenges their belief systems and rips apart their worlds.

 

Monday, June 26th at 2:30am

American Masters | Keith Haring: Street Art Boy

Explore the definitive story of international art sensation Keith Haring who blazed a trail through the art scene of '80s New York and revolutionized the worlds of pop culture and fine art. The film features previously unheard interviews with Haring.

 

Monday, June 26th at 3:30am

Out in Rural America

Following five stories from the LGBTQ+ community over six years, the film explores the issues of self-doubt, discrimination, acceptance, and small-town and Midwestern LGBTQ+ life from a cultural, social, familial, and religious perspective.

 

Monday, June 26th at 4:30am

The Committee

The Committee is a documentary film about the little-known Florida Legislative Investigative Committee of the State Legislature from 1956-1965. Florida Senator Charley Johns chaired the committee, and its aim was to root out communist and homosexual teachers and students from state universities. It was successful in either firing or expelling more than 200 suspected gay and lesbian citizens.

 

Monday, June 26th at 10pm

American Masters | Ballerina Boys

The all-male company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo mixes ballet classics with comedy.

 

Tuesday, June 27th at 12am

Miriam and Alan Lost in Scotland

Miriam and Alan head to the Isle of Skye for a magical boat trip and some wand whittling, before visiting a Jewish, LGBTQ+, vegan, anarchist cafe in Glasgow. Miriam and Alan finally end up in the U.S. to begin the American leg of their travels.

 

Wednesday, June 28th at 2am

Great Performances | The Conductor

Follow Marin Alsop's journey to become the first female music director of a major symphony despite repeated rejection by the classical music industry. Features footage with her mentor Leonard Bernstein set to a soundtrack of her performances.

 

Wednesday, June 28th at 3:30am

Sharon Isbin |Troubadour

Combining performance and documentary, SHARON ISBIN: TROUBADOUR focuses on Isbin's unusual and inspiring musical journey, including her early guitar studies and teenage triumphs

 

Thursday, June 29th at 3am

American Masters |Ballerina Boys

The all-male company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo mixes ballet classics with comedy.

 

Thursday, June 29th at 4am

Queer Silicon Valley

From its early beginnings in a 1970s vibrant bar scene through the challenges posed by AIDS and the religious right, the fight for political representation and marriage equality, to what it was like to come out in the high tech industry, Queer Silicon Valley casts a fresh lens on a not well known but significant history.

 

Friday June 30th at 3:30am

Independent Lens | Mama Bears

Although they grew up as fundamentalist, evangelical Christians, these moms are now willing to risk losing friends, family, and faith communities to keep their kids safe-even if it challenges their belief systems and rips apart their worlds.

 

Friday, June 30th at 8pm

Miriam and Alan Lost in Scotland

Miriam and Alan visit a Santa Barbara 'drug den'. In Palm Springs, they enjoy drag bingo and join a gay knitting group. Then, it's on to L.A. where Miriam takes Alan to meet a relative she's never met in person.

 

Friday, June 30th at 9pm

Independent Lens | No Straight Lines

From DIY underground comix scene to mainstream acceptance, meet five queer comics artists whose uncensored commentary on LGBTQ+ life left no topic untouched and explored art as a tool for social change.

 

Friday, June 30th at 10:30pm

Aging Matters- Aging with Pride

AGING MATTERS: AGING WITH PRIDE sheds light on what many in the Stonewall Generation have had to endure and fight for in the hopes of enacting positive change for the community in the ongoing pursuit of equality.

 

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Classroom Resources from PBS LearningMedia

PBS LearningMedia offers thousands of free teaching resources including videos, lesson plans, and games aligned to state and national standards.

Understanding LGBTQ+ Identity: A Toolkit for Educators offers a series of digital media resources to help teachers, administrators, guidance counselors, and other educators understand and effectively address the complex and difficult issues faced by LGBTQ students.

The collection includes a growing set of curriculum resources, designed to integrate LGBTQ+ history and narratives into US History and English classrooms. These resources are aligned with a curriculum guide developed by the New York City Department of Education's Social Studies department called Hidden Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories in United States History. Hidden Voices examines individuals who questioned and broke the normed expectations of gender and/or sexuality, and who were therefore often "hidden" from the traditional historical record. These individuals influenced the social, political, cultural, and economic landscape of the United States in so many ways, and their contributions continue to shape our collective history and identity.

Also, for educators, the LGBTQ+ Identity: Early Grades Support collection is designed to help educators understand gender expression and identity in young students and help make learning spaces more inclusive.    For educators and families with older children, this episode of Origin of Everything, From Stonewall Riots to Raves: How Did Pride Become a Parade? explores the history of the Pride Parades of today. For younger children, this fun How to Make a Rainbow Ribbon Flag is a fun way to celebrate Pride and introduce discussions on what it means to be inclusive