Highlights the struggles and achievements of Laverne Cox, an American actress, who became the first openly transgender person to win numerous awards and have a wax work in Madame Tussauds.

Chaz Bono has been in the spotlight for the entirety of his life. As a child, he was a star on his parents Sonny and Cher's variety show. In 1995, Bono's role as a celebrity shifted after tabloids outed him as a lesbian. Bono embraced his potential and became an LGBTQ advocate. In 2009, Bono further advanced LGBTQ awareness by announcing his gender identity as a trans male. Since then, Bono has shared his struggles and triumphs through documentaries,...

The first openly trans person elected to a U.S. state legislature discusses her lonely and closeted childhood and how she re-wrote her own future by deciding to run for office.

Recognizes the profound historical importance of capturing the stories of the LGBT.

"A remarkable, deeply moving memoir of one man's gender transition amid a pivotal political moment in America"-- For fifty years P. Carl lived as a girl and a queer woman, building a career, a life, and a loving marriage, yet still waiting to realize himself in full. Embarking on his gender transition, he takes us inside the complex shifts and questions that arise throughout -- the alternating moments of arrival and estrangement. He discusses how...

"From an award-winning writer whose work bristles with "hard-won strength, insight, agility, and love" (Maggie Nelson), an exquisite and troubling narrative of masculinity, violence, and society. In this groundbreaking new book, the author, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence. Through his experience boxing -- learning to get hit,...

Three short films explore the experience of being gay in America. Small town gay bar is the story of gay, lesbian, and transgendered people struggling to find a safe space and strong community in rural Mississippi. Out in the heartland is the story of gay and lesbian families taking a stand against Kentucky's anti-gay-marriage amendment. Clay pride : being clay in America is an animated film about a man's coming out.

Trans woman Precious Brady-Davis recalls her childhood growing up in the Omaha foster care system and Pentecostal faith as a biracial, gender-nonconforming child. Born into traumatic circumstances, Brady-Davis was brought up in the Omaha foster care system and the Pentecostal faith. As a biracial, gender-nonconforming kid, she felt displaced, but has come to realize that she had a purpose all along. Here Brady-Davis reflects on a childhood of neglect,...

"A highly personal collection documenting the early months of artist Julia Kaye's gender transition. Instead of a traditional written diary, Julia Kaye has always turned to art as a means of self-reflection. So when she began her gender transition in 2016, she decided to use her popular webcomic, Up and Out, to process her journey and help others with similar struggles realize they weren't alone. Julia's poignant, relatable comics honestly depict...

In Trans Figured, Brian Belovitch shares his true story of life as a gender outlier and his dramatic journey through the jungle of gender identity. Brian has had the rare distinction of coming out three times: first as a queer teenager; then as a glamorous transgender woman named Tish, and later, Natalia Gervais; and finally as an HIV-positive gay man surviving the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. From growing up in a barely-working-class first-generation...