Pride!!

Tomorrow, the GLBT community in Austin will be celebrating Gay Pride.  

Recently, I learned by serendipity about the death of Rudolf Brazda, one of the few survivors of Nazi concentration camps where he and other gay men had to wear a pink triangle attached to their uniforms denoting their sexual orientation.  That pink triangle made them a target for brutality, abuse and object of “scientific” experimentation. 

When I read about Brazda, I felt that I was the only person in the world who didn’t know about these atrocities. Then I jumped ahead in time to 1969 and started reading more in depth about the Stonewall riots in New York City. I learned about the before and after and how the protests changed the vision and rights of the GLTB community in this country.

Maybe because I have all this information fresh in my mind right now or maybe because of the love I have for my amazing friends in the GLBT community, that I am more excited than usual about this celebration in Austin.  If you want to get in the mood for this important event, here’s a list of movies in the Austin Public Library collection that might help you:

• Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
  
• Bent
• Black is-- black ain't (Documentary)
• Boys In the Band
• Eyes Wide Open
• It’s in the water   
• La Mission   
• Law of Desire
• Longtime Companion
• Paris Is Burning
• Prayers for Bobby
• Plan B
• Purple Sea 
• Sasha
• Suddenly Last Summer
• Tongues untied (Documentary)
• Transamerica
• Wizard of Oz
• Wilde
• XXY 

Tomorrow, go out, celebrate and be proud!  Ah!! Don’t forget to read our two previous blog posts: From the Closet to the Courtroom  and  Gay Pride Month Book Lists.

*Thanks to JB for helping with the selection of titles for this post.