Research Guides: LGBTQIA+ Pride Month Resource Guide: Pride on Film

Avery Fisher Center (AFC)

The Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media (AFC) is located on the 7th floor of Bobst Library. Our collections include:

over 28,000 videos (with U.S. and foreign cinema, drama and music performances, documentaries, art films, and more) and
over 76,000 sound recordings (featuring music from a broad spectrum of classical, traditional, and popular artists and genres, from throughout the world and across history).

Our viewing and listening facilities support a variety of analog and digital formats.

Films and Documentaries Related to Pride

Ma vie en rose = My life in pink by Alain Berliner
Publication Date: 1999

This coming of age film illuminates the story of Ludovic, a transgender girl, whose family struggles to accept her gender identity.
Saving Face by Alice Wu
Publication Date: 2004

This romantic comedy explores the experience of a Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother as they navigate coming out with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
Paris is Burning by Jennie Livingston
Publication Date: 1990

This documentary is a chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of the legendary Black and Latnix voguers, drag queens, and trans women who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
The Aggressives by Daniel Peddle
Publication Date: 2015

The Aggressives is an insightful look at the little explored, yet monumental, subculture of lesbians who journey to identify as trans-men.
Pariah by Dee Rees
Publication Date: 2011

Pariah is the intimate portrait of a Brooklyn teen's journey to embracing her identity as a lesbian.
Kiki by Sara Jordenö
Publication Date: 2016

A captivating look into the daily lives of a group of LGBTQ youth who comprise the "Kiki" scene as they prepare for and perform at fierce and exuberant ballroom competitions in NYC.
The Stonewall Uprising
Publication Date: 2011

When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for the next six days. The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.