Coming Out {LGBTQ youth are recording their own histories and telling their own experiences.}
Queer Youth Speak: In and Out at the Library // This two part video highlights a queer youth of color talking about coming out and creating their own queer art and history. Part One/Part Two
Chirag’s Coming Out Story //Chirag speaks about coming out as a young, South East Asian, gay man.
Relationships
Relationships: It’s Not all Hearts and Flowers
A great educational short film about queer youth dating and violence from Community United Against Violence (CUAV).
Safer Sex
Say What?!
A series of videos hosted by a young, southern woman of color focusing mostly on lesbian safer sex information. Bi and trans folks are also mentioned a lil’ bit as well.
Ballroom 2.0
From the series, In the Life, this episode focuses on the Ballroom communities’ work doing HIV/AIDS education and prevention.
Comprehensive Sexual Education
Our Reality: A Fight for Comprehensive Sex Education in Savannah, Georgia
In the face of an aggressive abstinence-only industry, three students in Savannah, GA fight to resist five more years of government funding for these ineffective programs in their schools.
Bullying/Harassment
Think Before You Speak
This campaign aims to raise awareness about the prevalence and consequences of anti-LGBT bias and behavior in America’s schools.
Back Up!
Sidewalks, street crossings, corridors, and concrete are hostile territory for women and girls who experience verbal and physical assault from men on a daily basis. This is the official trailer for the feature length documentary that explores how women deal with this daily violence. Click here to learn more about the film.
Tools for Supporting Trans/Gender Variant People
Toilet Training is a documentary video and collaboration between transgender videomaker Tara Mateik and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, an organization dedicated to ending poverty and gender identity discrimination. The video addresses the persistent discrimination, harassment, and violence that people who transgress gender norms face in gender segregated bathrooms. Using the stories of people who have been harassed, arrested or beaten for trying to use bathrooms, Toilet Training focuses on bathroom access in public space, in schools, and at work.
Copyright 2003 / Run Time: 30 minutes / Color / Spanish Subtitling Option/ DVD only. Comes with a Companion Guide for Activists and Educators
For questions, or to order, contact Emily Nepon at e.nepon@srlp.org or 212.337.8550 x 300.
Click Here for a clip from Toilet Training!
Transgender Basics
A 2O minute introduction video to trans and genderqueer issues. http://www.gaycenter.org/community/multimedia/transgenderbasics
Queerness & Disability
Sins Invalid is a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. Our performance work explores the themes of sexuality, embodiment and the disabled body. Conceived and led by disabled people of color, we develop and present cutting-edge work where normative paradigms of “normal” and “sexy” are challenged, offering instead a vision of beauty and sexuality inclusive of all individuals and communities.
In this CLIP is Atlanta’s own Cara Page and disability activist, Leroy Moore. Please be advised that this clip does contain brief nudity.
Mia Mingus Recieves 2008 Creating Change Award
Check out Spark’s former Executive Co-Director, Mia Mingus speaking up and OUT!
Allies
A public service announcement by LOGO and GLSEN against hate crimes in response to the murder of Lawrence King, a fifteen-year-old high school boy killed by another a classmate because of his sexual orientation.
