Celebrate Pride With Libraries Multimedia Resources

Celebrate Pride With Libraries Multimedia Resources
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In celebration of LGBTQ Pride Month, the Mullins Library Multimedia Department has compiled a list of streaming and physical videos available to all students, staff, and faculty. Physical items are available for checkout in the Multimedia Services Room (MULN 463).  

Streaming Movies 

A Fantastic Woman is about a transgender waitress named Marina. She moonlights as a nightclub singer and is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend. 

Beautiful Thing tells the story of two teenage boys, neighbors in a London high-rise housing project, who gradually become aware that they are homosexual. 

Call Me By Your Name details the love story of Elio and Oliver, two young men who spend a summer together on the Italian Riviera and develop a bond that shapes their view of love for the rest of their lives. 

Love is Strange depicts two people building a long life together and their love growing deeper and richer with time. 

Streaming Documentaries  

The Freedom to Marry follows Evan Wolfson and Mary Bonauto, the architect and the main litigator of the marriage equality movement, and their key colleagues from the earliest days of their journey to their final dash to the US Supreme Court. 

In My Shoes: Stories of Youth with LGBT Parents is about five young people who are children of LGBT parents and their views on marriage and what it means to be a family.  

Out in the Open is geared towards at-risk youth across the world, as well as their families, friends and teachers. Featuring interviews with celebrities, politicians and everyday allies who openly embrace the LGBTQ community, this feel-good film asserts that all people should be celebrated. 

The Celluloid Closet explores how our attitudes about homosexuality and sex roles have evolved through the century.  

Gay USA is an essential documentary about the experiences of thousands of people who marched in the 70's. 

Pay It No Mind: Marsha P. Johnson is a documentary about a revolutionary trans activist, Stonewall instigator, Andy Warhol model and downtown New York City fixture.   

DVD Documentaries 

Paris is Burning chronicles the "Golden Age" of New York City drag ball culture. 

How to Survive a Plague is about the early years of the AIDS epidemic.  

DVD Movies 

Philadelphia is about two competing lawyers who join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for discrimination when one of the lawyers is fired because he has AIDS.  

Following the lives of five gay men in Pittsburgh, Queer as Folk is filled with adventure, friendship and love. In addition to the usual escapades and relationships of the five friends, the show explores critical gay political and health issues. 

Brokeback Mountain is set in 1963 in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, hired to tend sheep, are drawn to each other as they spend much of their time alone together.  

The Danish Girl is a love story inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, whose marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer. 

Moonlight is about a young Black man who grapples with his identity and sexuality while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami. 

CD 

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy Soundtrack is a 15-track compilation album featuring Duran Duran, released by Capitol Records in 2004. 

Contacts

Shannon Youmans, course reserve and multimedia specialist
University Libraries
479-575-5517, libmulti@uark.edu

Kelsey Lovewell Lippard, director of public relations
University Libraries
479-575-7311, klovewel@uark.edu

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