The Office of LGBTQIA+ and PRISM’s Media Guide

The Office of LGBTQIA+ and the student group P.R.I.S.M. have put together a list of digital media with LGBTQIA+ characters, actors, or creators. If you’re looking for something to watch or listen to, this can be a great way to find media with positive LGBTQIA+ representation. If you have suggestions to add to the list, you can submit them here for the Office’s consideration.

At Whitman, the library subscribes to Kanopy, where you can stream movies featured on this list as well as other films with LGBTQIA+ characters or creators.

If you are looking for more academic work relating to the LGBTQIA+ community, we subscribe to the database LGBT Thought and Culture, which contains both primary sources (including letters, periodicals, interviews, memoirs and ephemera) concerning the the political history of LGBTQIA+ rights as well as poetry and works of fiction by LGBTQIA+ writers.

You can also search our catalog for books, articles, and other resources. Because of the often-changing language within the LGBTQIA+ community, one way to make sure you are capturing the most resources appropriate to your research and potentially covering a wider time period is to add (homosexual* OR lgbt* OR queer) to your searches, such as: representation AND (homosexual* OR lgbt* OR queer). The asterisk captures anything that starts with the word it’s attached to, so in this case it captures homosexual, homosexuality, homosexuals, or lgbt, lgbtq, lgbtqia+, etc.

If you have any questions about the office of LGBTQIA+ or would like to be added to their mailing list, you can email Program Coordinator Vari Robinson at [email protected]. PRISM, a group for students that are LGBTQIA+ can be contacted at [email protected]. If you have any questions about library resources or want help with research, you can contact librarians here.