June is LGBTQ+ Pride month! 🌈 It's a time to honour the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community across the globe. The Stonewall Uprising was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the USA and saw the LGBTQ+ community stand against police brutality for six days. The first Pride march was held exactly a year afterwards in June 1970 and is deemed to be the birth of the Pride march that many of us know and love today.

Pride month centres on education in pride history and how we need to continually strive for greater equality and gay rights. This is why we've pulled together our favourite LGBTQ+ resources, from podcasts to books and films, these are some our our top picks...

At UpCircle HQ, all of our team will be reading, listening or watching one of the below LGBTQ+ resources each week in June.

Books 📚
Fairest by Meredith Talusan
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Sarah McBride
The Stonewall Reader
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Rebel Chef by Dominique Crenn & Emma Brockes
Legendary Children by Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez
Tasty Pride by Jesse Szewczyk
All In by Billie Jean King
Good as You by Paul Flynn

TV shows and films 📺
Eastsiders
Grace & Frankie
Ru Pauls Drag Race
It’s a Sin
Queer Eye
Sense8
Sex Education
Special
The Bisexual
Banana
Cucumber
Hollywood
Tales of the city
Dear Evan Hansen
Booksmart
The Boys in the Band
Feel Good


Podcasts 🎧
LGBTQ+A
Making Gay History
Food 4 Thot
Dead For Filth
Bad With Money
Some Families
Adventures in Time and Gender
Like minded Friends


Plays 🎭️
Everybody’s talking about Jamie
&Juliet
The View upstairs
Coming Clean


Comedians 🗣
Hannah Gadsby (Nanette + Douglas Netflix specials)
Simon Amstell (Set Free Netflix special)
Suzi Ruffell
Catherine Bohart
Mae Martin (Dope on Netflix)
Sophie Ducker


If you have any suggestions we'd love to hear them - drop a comment below!