June is Pride Month. Pride Month is a time for all of us at Avamere to support a culture of trust and respect with our LGBTQIA+ team members, patients, and residents. As a family of companies, we celebrate the historical movement of the LGBTQIA+ community and the significant contributions made by the community in our country and world.
Here at Avamere, we believe love is a powerful force.
The list is in its entirety below. You can also download a PDF of the resources.
RECOMMENDED MOVIES
Brokeback Mountain
Collette
Love Simon
Milk
Moonlight
My Beautiful Laundrette
Paris is Burning
Philadelphia
Rent
The Children’s Hour
The Crying Game
The Hours
Disclosure
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (How I Felt When I Saw That Girl)
A Secret Love
The Half of It
Dear Ex
Alex Strangelove
Boys Don’t Cry
Daddy and Papa
Edge of Seventeen
A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
In and Out
The Matthew Shepard Story
Sum of Us
Torch Song Trilogy
Transamerica
The Wedding Banquet
The Family Stone
RECOMMENDED TV SHOWS
Grace and Frankie
Modern Family
Queer Eye
Schitt’s Creek
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
The Politician
We’re Here
Will and Grace
Black Lightning
Difficult People
Euphoria
The L Word
Normal People
Pose
Queer as Folk
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Sex Education
Special
The Bold Type
Vida
Work in Progress
Everything Sucks
RECOMMENDED PODCASTS
The People of Avamere Pod
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
LGBTQ&A
Making Gay History
One From the Vaults
Nancy
Never Before by Janet Mock
The BiCast
Umbrella
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Boy Erased
Love Speaks Its Name
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
Sister Outsider
The Stonewall Reader
We Are Everywhere
This Is A Book For Parents of Gay Kids
Flannelwood
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches – Audre Lorde
The Men with the Pink Triangle
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
The Year of Blue Water
The Black Leopard
Cantoras
Stone Butch Blues
History is All You Left Me
I Wish You All The Best
A Cup of Water Under My Bed
RECOMMENDED CHILDREN’S BOOKS
And Tango Makes Three
Bunny Bear
Love Makes a Family
Pink is for Boys
Rainbow: A First Book of Pride
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