Would you like to find out more about the LGBTQ+ community?

People often ask us for ways they can find out more about LGBTQ+ people, the issues affecting us and LGBTQ+ history. Here are some suggestions to get you started, including some with a Redbridge link. Contact us to suggest anything we could add to the list.

Newsletters and social media

• Redbridge Rainbow newsletter and social media

• Search our directory for organisations to follow

News and media outlets

• Attitude

• Diva

• Gay Times

Podcasts

• Black and Gay Back in the Day

• ITV Pridecast

• Out with Suzi Ruffell and Like Minded Friends

• The Pieces with Bimimi

• Virgin Radio Pridecast

Reading lists and books (all available in local libraries)

• Look out for themed displays in local libraries during LGBT+ History Month in February and Pride Month in June

• Read the Rainbow e-library suggestions (accessible via the Libby app)

• Booker Prize recommendations

• Gay’s the Word recommendations by section

• A Dutiful Boy by Mohsin Zaidi

• Dear Cisgender People: A guide to Trans Allyship and Empathy by Kenny Ethan Jones

• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (audio version also available on BBC Sounds)

TV and films

• LGBTQ+ short films available to stream for free on the Kanopy website (accessible via your library card)

• Mr Loverman, Gentleman Jack, and Juice (BBC iplayer)

• A Fantastic Woman

• Beautiful Thing

• Blue Is the Warmest Color

• Love, Simon

• Moonlight

• My Beautiful Laundrette

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire

• Pride

• The Kids are All Right

Visit

• Queer Britain, King’s Cross

• Bishopsgate Institute, Liverpool Street

• Free Queer and LGBTQ+ History Walk, Charing Cross

• Search for LGBTQ+ events in museums, galleries and cinemas, especially during LGBT+ History Month in February, Pride Month in June and Trans Awareness Week in November

• Search for LGBTQ+ events that also welcome allies on outsavvy and eventbrite