June is Pride month! Find out what resources and recommended titles we have here at City St George’s, ranging from films and performances to books, magazines, newspapers and all the way to world-class research.
To Watch
City St George’s has a lot of streaming and on demand services you can watch at your leisure.
Kanopy has variety of titles to watch this Pride month from feature films, documentaries and everything in between:
- Sordid Lives is a cult classic comedy starring the iconic Olivia Newton-John and Leslie Jordan that centers on three generations of a dysfunctional family and the young actor who returns home to it.
- Sing along with the Rocketman film and learn more about the life of Elton John in this award-winning biopic.
On Box of Broadcasts, find our playlist showing a wide of range of films and documentaries. From the iconic 2014 hit Pride, the coming of age drama The Miseducation of Cameron Post, and Derek Jarman’s adaptation of Edward II to documentaries focusing on the artist Gluck, the purges that occured in Chechnya, and the groundbreaking Paris is Burning.
Find it under the name “City St George’s 2025 Pride Collection” today.
BFI Player has a free collection that focuses of LGBTQIA+ life in Britain and has some fantastic videos looking at the different sexualities in decades gone by. This is a great way to hear first-hand accounts and see how narrative movies treated those stories:
- A Couple of Beauties gives Sister Act vibes with a nightclub singer being replaced by a barman who flees ‘up north’ to escape the mob and uses his new drag persona as his disguise
- The beautifully written and tenderly presented Facing the Sun that has wobbly sets but handles it’s portrayal of bisexuality with great depth and care.
- There is the two part current affairs called This Week that focuses on the aids epidemic and the effects that it would have if the situation spread outside of the gay community
- Another interesting documentary is one on David Hockney called Portrait of David Hockney that focuses on his time painting ‘Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy’.
To Read
Find a selection of titles at our libraries this month that fit the theme of pride. These include fiction, biographies, and explorations of history and subculture. Want even more options? Head over to Library Search today and start exploring!
City St George’s is well known for the fantastic research from our academics and this Pride we want to highlight a few from a span of genres published in recent years:
- Get caught up in our current and complex political world in Alan Powell’s Queering refugee law: a study of sexual diversity in asylum policy and practice in the United Kingdom, an unpublished doctoral thesis that looks at the Home Offices’ 2016 Asylum Policy Instruction
- Explore the world of AI in The Chat-Chamber Effect: Trusting the AI Hallucination and how these language learning models cultivated or changed individuals view through the model’s responses to the prompts
- Learn about the design and development of an online education program for families of trans young people in the fascinating journal article that was published in the Journal of LGBT Youth.
For those interested in reading about films and not just watching them, our new database Screen Studies has a range of titles from film scripts to criticism. Recommendations include:
- The moving script for My Beautiful Launderette
- Shane Brown’s compelling Queer Sexualities in Early Film: Cinema and Male–Male Intimacy
- The fantastic Screening Queer Memory: LGBTQ Pasts in Contemporary Film and Television
- And the 2023 release Globalized Queerness: Identities and Commodities in Queer Popular Culture.
On Libby, find our permanent LGBTQIA+ collection and our June Pride special collection. These collections are of full of great reads that span the range of genres and formats- whether you want a graphic novel, a heartbreaking drama, a biography of a compelling individual or just a cute little romance.
Find a mix of popular titles and hidden gems that are must reads.
Listen to the audiobook versions of the classic titles Tales of the City and Nightwood and get drawn in with the fantastic art style of Chef’s Kiss and Flung Out of Space. Fall in love with I Kissed a Girl and Big Date Energy. Find the TikTok hits The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and The Night and Its Moons. Follow the real life stories of Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures, and Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain, and Paris Lee’s What it Feels Like For a Girl.
