Echoes of Resilience: LGBTQ+ Experiences in the U.S.

Celebrating the resilience of LGBTQ+ Americans: a film and discussion series putting interpersonal, intergenerational, and LGBTQ+ experiences in a historical context.
Tuesdays at 6 PM
Ames Public Library
CO-HOSTS:
Ames Pride
Collegiate Presbyterian Church (CPC)
Collegiate United Methodist Church and Wesley Foundation
One Iowa
Ames United Church of Christ
LGBTQIAmes
Ames Public Library
Ames Public Library Friends Foundation
EVENTS:
June 9: Stonewall Uprising
The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.
June 16: The Celluloid Closet
Narrated by Lily Tomlin, this exuberant, eye-opening movie serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of gay men and women on the silver screen.
June 23: Boy Erased
When a college student comes out to his religious parents, they enroll him in a conversion therapy program to change his sexuality.
June 30: Limited Partnership
The love story between Filipino-American Richard Adams and Australian Tony Sullivan, who, in 1975, became one of the first same-sex couples legally married in the United States.
July 7: Daddy and Papa
A film exploring the legal, social, and political challenges faced by four same-sex couples and their children.
July 14: The Times of Harvey Milk
A documentary of the successful life, career and assassination of the first openly gay elected official.
July 21: We Were Here
The San Francisco arrival of what was then called the "Gay Plague" in the early 1980s. This film explores the profound personal, community, & political issues raised by the AIDS epidemic.
July 28: The Believers
A documentary following the Transcendence Gospel Choir, the world's first transgender gospel choir, founded in 2001 in San Francisco.