American Experience: Stonewall Uprising
Saturday, June 1 at 8 p.m.
On June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City. In response, the streets erupted into violent protests that lasted for six days, marking a significant turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement.
Independent Lens: Cured
Monday, June 10 at 7 p.m.
A powerful exploration of a pivotal yet largely unknown chapter in the struggle for LGBTQ+ equality. This documentary shines a light on the campaign that led the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality from its manual on mental illness.
Independent Lens: Mama Bears
Monday, June 10 at 8 p.m.
Follow two Christian mothers whose profound love for their LGBTQ+ children has turned them into advocates for the queer community.
POV: We Are the Radical Monarchs
Tuesday, June 11 at 2 p.m.
Meet the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color on the frontlines of social justice. The film documents their journey as they earn badges for completing units on subjects such as being an LGBTQ ally, preserving the environment, and disability justice.
Out In Rural America
Wednesday, June 12 at 7 p.m.
This film explores five stories from the LGBTQ+ community over six years, exploring issues of self-doubt, discrimination, acceptance, and small-town Midwestern LGBTQ+ life from a cultural, social, familial, and religious perspective.
POV: Out In the Night
Wednesday, June 12 at 8 p.m.
In New York City, a group of African American lesbians were violently threatened by a man on the street. The women fought back and were later charged with gang assault and attempted murder. This documentary examines the women’s battle, revealing the role that race, gender identity, and sexuality play in the criminal justice system.
We’ll Meet Again: Coming Out
Saturday, June 15 at 7 p.m.
In this episode, host Ann Curry tells the story of two young New England men as they reconnect with those who helped them discover and accept their sexuality.
Prideland
Saturday, June 15 at 8 p.m.
Follow actor Dyllón Burnside on a journey across the South to meet diverse members of the LGBTQ community – from a lesbian rodeo champ in Texas to an African American mayor ally in Alabama, where he discovers how LGBTQ Americans live authentically in the modern South.
Unidad: Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos
Thursday, June 20 at 7 p.m.
Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos (GLLU) was founded in 1981, only a few years before HIV/AIDS began to ravage LGBTQ communities. The film chronicles events at a pivotal time in the history of LGBTQ equality, women’s rights, and civil rights movements that shaped the destinies of GLLU’s communities.
America Reframed: Jack & Yaya
Thursday, June 20 at 8 p.m.
From a young age, Jack and Yaya saw each other as they truly were, a girl and a boy, even though the rest of the world didn’t see them that way. As they grew older, they supported each other as they both came out as transgender. Jack & Yaya follows these two friends for a year and explores their unique relationship, drawing on home videos and conversations with their eclectic cast of friends and family.
American Experience: Casa Susanna
Friday, June 21 at 7 p.m.
In the 1950s and ‘60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills region of New York called Casa Susanna. Told through the memories of those who visited the house, the film provides a moving look back at a secret world where the persecuted found freedom, acceptance, and often, the courage to live out of the shadows.
All We’ve Got
Monday, June 24 at 7 p.m.
At a time when queer and trans individuals are under attack in many parts of the country and hundreds of queer spaces have closed, this film offers an insider’s view of LGBTQ women's communities cultures and social justice work through the lens of the physical spaces they create. It also explores why preserving these spaces benefits everyone.
Stories From The Stage: Pride
Monday, June 24 at 9:30 p.m.
There are all sorts of things people can be proud of: their identity, family and heritage, a wise decision, a singular accomplishment, or just being true to who they are. Palestinian Muslim Eman El-Husseini comes out to her parents and finds the best tool to defy cultural stereotypes in comedy; April Hartford shares the relief and redemption of living an authentic self; and Jay Vilar comes out to his family and receives some surprising reactions.
Justly Wed: Scenes From the Marriage Equality Movement
Thursday, June 27 at 7 p.m.
Experience the firsthand and intimate recollections of four couples who were at the vanguard of the marriage equality movement in San Francisco, and the legacy of this watershed moment in American history.
America Reframed: Vision Portraits
Thursday, June 27 at 8 p.m.
Acclaimed director Rodney Evans takes viewers on a personal journey as he ponders how the deterioration of his vision will impact his life and work as a filmmaker. Evans embarks on a quest to learn how other blind and low vision artists have continued to create art and how their journeys might serve as inspiration for his own.
American Masters: James Baldwin: The Price of The Ticket
Friday, June 28 at 7 p.m.
An in-depth portrait of James Baldwin, one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. Using rarely seen archival footage and interviews with close friends and colleagues, the film allows Baldwin to tell his own story: exploring what it means to Black, impoverished and gay in America.
POV: Urya: The Rising
Saturday, June 29 at 7 p.m.
Uýra is a trans-indigenous artist on a journey of self-discovery in the Amazon Forest. They use performance art and ancestral messages to teach Indigenous youth the significance of identity and place, and how to confront structural racism and transphobia in Brazil.
Independent Lens: Breaking The News
Saturday, June 29 at 8 p.m.
Women and LGBTQ+ journalists launch startup The 19th* to buck a broken news media system.
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