Queer Media Recommendations
Queering media
As someone who was a huge bookworm growing up and was a media communications major for a little while, I know the importance of media representation, and I recognize the fear in the American government that creates mass hysteria through book banning in educational sectors due to disinformation. I actively seek out queer representation in media, which was one of the reasons I stumbled into the gaming industry, because the gaming industry was still so cis-het normative! I have listed my (personal) top 3 recommendations per category here, but go to the google document for a complete lists that will continue to be updated as more resources and personal reviews become available. Consider purchasing from The Irreverent Bookworm, a queer owned independent bookstore in Minnesota!
Young Adult books
The Sun and The Star Mark Oshiro & Rick Riordan
This Book is Gay Juno Dawson
Queer: A Graphic History Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele
Children's books
Be Amazing: A History of Pride Desmond is Amazing
What are Your Words? Katherine Locke
A Church for All Gayle E. Pittman
Adult books
The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller
Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A Celebration of Gay Gods, Sapphic Saints and Queerness through the ages Dan Jones.
Sister Outsider Audre Lorde
TV/film
Q Force- animated tv show featuring LGBTQ superspies
Love, Simon- the first Hollywood coming of age coming out movie
Silence = Death- documentary featuring artists as they grapple with the AIDS epidemic