Echoes of Resilience: LGBTQ+ Experiences in the U.S.
Ames Public Library
Tuesdays, June 9 through July 28
6:00-8:30 pm
Series Description:
Celebrating the resilience of LGBTQ+ Americans: a film and discussion series putting interpersonal, intergenerational, and LGBTQ+ experiences in historical context.
Sponsors:
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames, Ames Public Library, Ames Public Library Friends Foundation, Ames Pride, LGBTQIAmes, OneIowa, Collegiate Presbyterian Church, Collegiate United Methodist Church, Ames United Church of Christ
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1393049465921172
Library Event Page: https://www.amespubliclibrary.org/event/echoes2026
Schedule
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.
