WETA proudly celebrates Pride Month with a special lineup that highlights the rich culture and history the LGBTQIA+ community.

Throughout the broadcast year, the station is committed to presenting programs reflecting the diversity of our community.

Program Guide

Download a PDF of our LGBTQ+ Pride Month programming guide or explore specific channel offerings below.

All programs listed below will be airing on WETA PBS and WETA Metro. Check the schedule for additional information.

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Groundbreakers

Friday, June 6 on WETA Metro

Celebrate 50 years of female excellence in sports through the eyes of athletes who changed the system. Hosted by sports icon and champion of equality Billie Jean King, the film weaves together eight athletes’ discussions of how their own struggles and achievements shaped women’s sports. Features Naomi Osaka, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Chloe Kim, Nancy Lieberman, Suni Lee, Julie Foudy and Diana Flores.

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American Masters: Janis Ian – Breaking the Silence

Friday, June 20 on WETA PBS and WETA Metro

Discover the life of singer-songwriter Janis Ian and how she rose as a folk icon and gay rights advocate. She broke ground with “Society’s Child” (1966), a bold take on interracial love, and “At Seventeen” (1975), a searing anthem about bullying.

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Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution

Saturday, June 21 on WETA PBS 

From the basement bars of ‘70s New York to the peak of the global charts, this is the story of disco: its rise, its fall... and its legacy. Revelling in iconic tracks and remarkable footage, this is a powerful, revisionist history of the disco age.

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Lou’s Legacy: A Reporter’s Life at the Washington Blade

Saturday, June 21 on WETA PBS

Lou’s Legacy: A Reporter’s Life at the Washington Blade tells the story of two DC icons—legendary journalist Lou Chibbaro Jr. and beloved drag performer Donnell Robinson, aka Ella Fitzgerald. Through Lou’s nearly five-decade career at the Blade and Ella’s return to the stage after three years away because of Covid, the documentary explores the history of DC’s gay community and today’s rising backlash against LGBTQ rights, including laws targeting drag performers.

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American Experience: Stonewall Uprising

Saturday, June 21 on WETA PBS

In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969 police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. That night the street erupted into violent protests and street demonstrations that lasted for the next three days. The Stonewall riots marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.

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American Masters: LIZA: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story

Saturday, June 28 on WETA PBS

Take an intimate look into the life of Liza Minnelli, best known for her Oscar-winning role in Cabaret. Following in the footsteps of her mother Judy Garland, Minnelli used her boundless raw talent to build her own legacy in showbiz.

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No Straight Lines

Independent Lens

When Alison Bechdel received a coveted MacArthur Award for her best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home, it heralded the acceptance of LGBTQ+ comics in American culture. From DIY underground comix scene to mainstream acceptance, meet five smart and funny queer comics artists whose uncensored commentary left no topic untouched and explored art as a tool for social change.

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Keith Haring: Street Art Boy

American Masters

Explore the definitive story of international art sensation Keith Haring who blazed a trail through the art scene of ‘80s New York and revolutionized the worlds of pop culture and fine art. The film features previously unheard interviews with Haring.

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Casa Susanna

American Experience

In the 1950s and ’60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place to express their true selves.

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Prideland

Prideland

Follow queer actor Dyllón Burnside on a journey to discover how LGBTQ Americans are finding ways to live authentically and with pride in the modern South.

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Breaking The News

Independent Lens

Who decides which stories get told? A scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists buck the white male-dominated status quo, banding together to launch The 19th*, a digital news startup aiming to combat misinformation. A story of an America in flux, and the voices often left out of the narrative, the documentary Breaking the News shows change doesn’t come easy.

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Mama Bears

Independent Lens

They call one another “mama bears” because of the ferocity with which they fight for their children’s rights. Although they grew up as fundamentalist, evangelical Christians praying for the souls of LGBTQ+ people, these mothers are now willing to risk losing friends, family, and faith communities to champion their kids—even if it challenges their belief systems and rips apart their worlds.

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Groundbreakers

Groundbreakers

Billie Jean King and seven icons on the past, present, and future of women’s sports.
CORRECTION (Dec. 8, 2023): This program mistakenly refers to two events of the women’s heptathlon as the 60-meter and 1,000-meter run. The program should have referred instead to the 200-meter dash and 800-meter run in which Jackie Joyner-Kersee participated as part of the women’s heptathlon.

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Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll

American Masters

Experience the meteoric rise and enduring legacy of Little Richard. This portrait of the “King and Queen of Rock and Roll” explores his far-reaching influence as well as his advocacy for the rights of Black artists in the music industry.

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Stayin’ Alive

Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution

Disco seemed untouchable by the end of the 1970s, but an incited violent backlash led to its demise. Dive into disco's underground return, where it laid the foundations for all future electronic dance music.

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Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now

Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution

Experience the pinnacle of disco culture during the 1970s, set against the backdrop of Black power and sexual liberation. As disco conquers the mainstream, Black women and gay men rise as superstars and icons.

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Rock the Boat

Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution

Explore the origin of a global music phenomenon born among gay and Black communities coming together in apartments and basement bars in 1970s New York, where dancefloors became a platform in their battle for visibility and inclusion.

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Billie Jean King and Arthur Ashe

Gods of Tennis

In 1975, Billie Jean King and Arthur Ashe are fighting to become Wimbledon champions — and away from the court they are also battling for social change on a global level.

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For the Love of Friends

For the Love of Friends

In 1986, to awaken America to the AIDS crisis and to honor the friends he lost, actor/playwright Brent Nicholson Earle runs the perimeter of the United States. In The American Run for the End of AIDS, Brent runs a marathon a day for 20 months, with his mother and a Winnebago driving behind him. In 2020, he stars in a play about his life. Though the run finishes, Brent’s fight never stops.

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Stonewall Uprising

American Experience

In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969 police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. That night the street erupted into violent protests and street demonstrations that lasted for the next three days. The Stonewall riots marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.

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LIZA: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story

American Masters

Take an intimate look into the life of Liza Minnelli, best known for her Oscar-winning role in Cabaret. Following in the footsteps of her mother Judy Garland, Minnelli used her boundless raw talent to build her own legacy in showbiz.