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Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 66,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas, including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Below are just a few videos available to you, search Academic Video Online for more videos on LGBTQ+ topics.
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Against the Grain looks at the complexities of coming out amongst women in the API (Asian Pacific Islander) community. Looking at women within Los Angeles County, the film seeks to understand the struggles that occur between parents and their daughters as they try to accept them for who they are. Growing up in a traditional Asian American household, the idea of honor and respect is firmly impressed on their minds. Questions of honor, respect, and “saving face” come into play when looking at the coming out experience. These women cannot simply come out without reflecting on their parents in some shape or form, and thus the process itself becomes difficult to even endure.
Out in the Open will, once and for all, destroy the misconceptions, fears, and myths about the LGBTQ community. This uplifting documentary is geared towards at-risk youth across the world, as well as their families, friends, and teachers. Featuring interviews with celebrities, politicians, and everyday allies, this feel-good film asserts that all people should be celebrated.
In this TED Talk Audrey speaks about gender identity before a live audience, Audrey's mother Sophie Hyde recalls fearing backlash. Audrey states that being non-binary is not a choice.
The film tracks the power of lesbian visibility and community from the early ‘90s to the present day through the story of Franco’s founding of Curve magazine. Decades later, in the wake of a disabling injury, Franco learns that Curve will fold within the year and questions the relevance of the magazine in the face of accelerating threats to LGBTQ+ community. To forge a path forward, Franco reaches out to women working in today’s queer spaces to understand what queer women need and how Curve can continue to serve the community.
Leading up to the Olympics in Sochi, a law banning “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations to minors” was passed in Russia. Gay Olympians were confronted with a tough decision: whether to protest in defense of their Russian comrades or compete in silence. Popular figure skater Johnny Weir was challenged to come out against the country he’d loved since childhood. Narrated by Jane Lynch, To Russia with Love takes viewers inside the Russian Open Games - a daring gay sports tournament held in Moscow three days after the Olympics - which was thwarted by authorities at every turn. Tennis champ Billie Jean King meets teen activist Vladislav Slavskiy who lives a besieged life in Sochi.
The story of Transgender Activist, Marsh P. Johnson, who dedicated her life to LGBTQ+ rights. For many people, taking part in activism is a choice, something they can choose to do or not to do, but for Marsha P Johnson, a low-income, Black, trans woman from New Jersey, campaigning for LGBTQ+ rights was a necessary, lifelong battle.
A behind-the-scenes look inside the historic case to overturn California's ban on same-sex marriage. The high-profile trial first makes headlines with the unlikely pairing of Ted Olson and David Boies, political foes who last faced off as opposing attorneys in Bush v. Gore. The film also follows the plaintiffs, two gay couples who find their families at the center of the same-sex marriage controversy. Five years in the making, this is the story of how they took the first federal marriage equality lawsuit to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Freedom to Marry is the untold story of the most successful – and perhaps most inspiring – civil rights movement of our time. This is a riveting ride alongside Evan Wolfson, the man known as an architect of the movement, and his team as they wage a decades-long battle all the way to the United States Supreme Court, providing a fresh perspective on the movement’s history along the way. This is both a primer for social change and a behind-the-scenes look at how regular people can actually make a difference.
