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TGE and LGBTQ+ Media

The following is a large collection of media content that centers TGE and LGBTQ+ communities in a direct effort to counter the anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ content bans that being introduced across the nation. 


Inclusion on this page doesn't necessarily constitute an endorsement of every statement, project, or action associated with a work or creator. Some of these selections address mature or potentially different subjects. Educators and families should consider age, context, and content before they share them with younger individuals. 


Spot a mistake? See a missing TGE or LGBTQ+ favorite that we should include?  Contact Us and let us know!

(Last reviewed September 2026)

Books

Memoir & Nonfiction

Fiction & Young Adult

Fiction & Young Adult

TGE

•She's Not There - Jennifer Finney Boylan

•Black Trans Feminism - Marquis Bey

•Black on Both Sides - C. Riley Snorton

•Whipping Girl - Julia Serano

•Redefining Realness - Janet Mock

•Tomorrow Will Be Different - Sarah McBride

•Pageboy - Elliot Page

•A Queer and Pleasant Danger - Kate Bornstein

•Transgender History - Susan Stryker

Beyond the Gender Binary - Alok Vaid-Menon

•Gender Queer - Maia Kobabe

•We Both Laughed in Pleasure - Lou Sullivan

•Miss Major Speaks - Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek

•Amateur - Thomas Page McBee

•Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story  - Jacob Tobia

•Histories of the Transgender Child - Jules Gill-Peterson

•The Risk it Takes to Bloom - Raquel Willis

•Tomboy Survival Guide - Ivan Coyote


LGBTQ+

•Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology of the Latinx Carribean by Carlos Deceña

•Inside Reality TV: Producing Race, Gender and Sexuality on 'Big Brother' - Ragan Fox

•Queer Theory by Riki Wilchins

• Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs

•All Boys Aren't Blue - George M. Johnson

•How We Fight Our Lives - Saeed Jones

•Hijab Butch Blues - Lamya H

•Fun Home - Alison Bechdel

•In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado

•The Argonauts - Maggie Nelson

•We Have Always Been Here - Samra Habib

•Queer: A Graphic History - Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele

•The Stonewall Reader - New York Public Library

•When We Rise - Cleve Jones

•How to Survive a Plague - David France

•Real Queer America - Samantha Allen

Fiction & Young Adult

Fiction & Young Adult

Fiction & Young Adult

TGE

•Felix Ever After - Kacen Callender

•Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas

•Pet - Akwaeke Emezi

•Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki

•Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters

•The Deep & Dark Blue - Niki Smith

•Nevada - Imogen Binnie

•Little Fish - Casey Plett

•The Thirty Names of Night - Zeyn Joukhadar

•Stone Butch Blues _- Leslie Feinberg

•Manhunt - Gretchen Felker-Martin

•Dreadnought - April Daniels

•The Passing Playbook - Isaac Fitzsimons

•Birthday - Meredith Russo

•If I Was Your Girl - Meredith Russo

•Man o' War - Cory McCarthy


LGBTQ+

•Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin

•The Color Purple - Alice Walker

•The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith

•On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

•Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Malinda Lo

•Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Sáenz

•The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

•This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

•One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston

•The Black Flamingo - Dean Atta

•The Miseducation of Cameron Post - Emily M. Danforth

•You Should See Me in a Crown - Leah Johnson

Children & Families

Fiction & Young Adult

Children & Families

TGE

•When Aidan Became a Brother - Kyle Lukoff

•Melissa - Alex Gino

•The Gender Wheel - Maya Gonzalez

•My Shadow is Purple - Scott Stuart

•It Feels Good to Be Yourself - Theresa Thorn

•My Rainbow - Trinity and DeShanna Neal

•Calvin - JR and Vanessa Ford

•From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea - Kai Cheng Thom

•Phoenix Goes to School - Michelle and Phoenix Finch

•What Are Your Words? - Katherine Locke

•Neither - Airlie Anderson

•Jamie and Bubbie - Afsaneh Moradian


LGBTQ+

•And Tango Makes Three - Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell

•Heather Has Two Mommies - Lesléa Newman

•Julián is a Mermaid - Jessica Love

•The Family Book - Todd Parr

•This Day in June - Gayle E. Pitman

•Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag - Rob Sanders

•Prince & Knight - Daniel Haack

•Love Makes a Family - Sophie Beer

•Uncle Bobby's Wedding - Sarah S. Brannen

•A Family is a Family is a Family - Sara O'Leary


Movies, TV, Podcasts, & Creators

Movies & Documentaries

Movies & Documentaries

Movies & Documentaries

TGE

•Disclosure

•Boys Don't Cry

•Paris is Burning

•The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

•No Ordinary Man

•Transamerica

•Changing the Game

•Framing Agnes

•Lingua Franca

•Tangerine

•The Danish Girl

•Kokomo City

•The Stroll

•A Fantastic Woman

•Mutt

•Monica

•Southern Comfort

•Call Her Ganda

•Will & Harper


LGBTQ+ 

•But I'm a Cheerleader

•Milk

•Moonlight

•Love, Simon

•The Perks of Being a Wallflower

•Bohemian Rhapsody

•Kinky Boots

•Pariah

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire

•The Watermelon Woman

•Pride

•How to Survive a Plague

•Kiki

•Rafiki

•Fire Island

•Milk

•Brokeback Mountain

•The Birdcage

•The Half of It

•God's Own Country

•The Way He Looks

IMDB has a stellar list of the best LGBT Films (many of which are missing from this list as they're on here) 

Television

Movies & Documentaries

Movies & Documentaries

TGE

•Pose

•Sense8

•Orange is the New Black

•Umbrella Academy

•Supergirl

•The L Word: Generation Q

•I Am Jazz

•Euphoria

•9-1-1 Lone Star

•Grey's Anatomy

•The OA

•Billions

•Gotham Knights

•Sex Education

•Transparent

•Tom Swift

•The Fosters

•Good Girls

•Queen Sugar

•The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

•Star Trek: Discovery

•We're Here

•Clean Slate

•The Politician

•Work in Progress

•Shameless

•Kaos

•Dead End: Paranormal Park


LGBTQ+

•The L Word

•Queer Eye

•Modern Family

•Glamorous

•Glee

•Heated Rivalry

•Heartstopper

•The Haunting of Bly Manor

•Killing Eve

•Tales of the City

•Love, Simon

•Yellowjackets

•Feel Good

•The Sex Lives of College Girls

•Batwoman

•Deadloch

•Pluribus

•Hacks

•We Are Lady Parts

•Schitt's Creek

•It's a Sin

•Gentleman Jack

•Somebody Somewhere

•Our Flag Means Death

•Vida

•Queer as Folk

•A League of Their Own

•Reservation Dogs

•The Owl House

Podcasts & Media

Podcasts & Media

Podcasts & Media

TGE

•TransLash Media

•TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones

•The Anti-Trans Hate Machine

•Gender Reveal

•One From the Vaults

•Stealth: A Transmasculine Podcast

•Girlish

•NB


LGBTQ+

•Outward

•Making Gay History

•QueerAF

•Bad Gays

•History is Gay

•LGBTQ&A

•Nancy

•Queery with Cameron Esposito

Content Creators

Podcasts & Media

Podcasts & Media

TGE

•Jamie Raines

•Erin in the Morning

•Dylan Mulvaney

•Alok Vaid-Menon

•Mercury Stardust

•Jeffrey Marsh

•Schuyler Bailar

•Raquel Willis

•Imara Jones

•J Mase III

•Kat Blaque

•Natalie Wynn

•Tourmaline

•Angelica Ross

•Munroe Bergdorf

•Johnathan Van Ness


LGBTQ+

•Eugene Lee Yang (The Try Guys)

•Matt Bernstein

•Rowan Ellis

• Jessica Kellgren-Fozard

•Alexander Avila

•Kaz Rowe

•Amber Whittington

•Amber Whittington

•Khadija Mbowe

•Princess Weekes

Music

Musicians (Non-Classical)

Composers & Classical Musicians

Composers & Classical Musicians

TGE

•ANOHNI

•Arca

•Beverly Glenn-Copeland

•Cavetown

•Dorian Electra

•Demi Lovato

•Ethel Cain

•Ezra Furman

•G Flip

•Janelle Monáe

•Kae Tempest

•Kim Petras

•Laura Jane Grace and Against Me!

•Mykki Blanco

•Peppermint

•Ryan Cassata

•Sam Smith

•Shea Diamond

•SOPHIE

•Venus de Mars


LGBTQ+

•Brandi Carlile

•Chappell Roan

•Lady Gaga

• Hayley Kiyoko

•Tegan and Sara

•Lil Nas X

•MUNA

•Freddie Mercury

•boygenius

•Orville Peck

•Troye Sivan

•Perfume Genius

•k.d. lang

•Sylvester

•Elton John

•George Michael

•Brittany Howard

•Rufus Wainwright

•Kim Deal

Composers & Classical Musicians

Composers & Classical Musicians

Composers & Classical Musicians

TGE

•Mari Esabel Valverde

•Dr. Stevie Hirner

•Michael Bussewitz-Quarm

•Evan Blaché

•Nicky Manlove

•Breanna Sinclairé

•Lucia Lucas

•Maria Castillo de Lima

•Wendy Carlos

•Alex Temple

•Aiden K. Feltkamp

•Rylan Gleave

•Joy Guidry

•Yaz Lancaster

•Sara Davis Buechner

•CN Lester


LGBTQ+

•Jennifer Higdon

•Caroline Shaw

•Nico Muhly

•John Corigliano

•Laura Kaminsky

•Mark Adamo

•Ricky Ian Gordon

•Jennifer Jolley

•Dominick DiOrio

•Ethel Smyth

•Samuel Barber

•Benjamin Britten

•Aaron Copland

•Leonard Bernstein

•Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Choral Organizations

Composers & Classical Musicians

Choral Organizations

•Gala Choruses

•ClassicalQueer

•The Stonewall Chorale

•Lakeside Pride

•TRANScend

•Phoenix Trans Community Choir

•Trans Chorus of Los Angeles

Copyright © 2026 Melanie E. Stapleton | Blurring the Binary


Recommended Citations:

When citing generally: 

Stapleton, M. E. (2026). Blurring the Binary. www.blurringthebinary.com


When citing collection of resources (Resource Hub):

Stapleton, M. E. (2026). Trans & LGBTQ+ resources for music education and communities. Blurring the Binary. https://blurringthebinary.com/resource-hub


When citing an individual page:

Stapleton, M. E. (2026). [Title of page] Blurring the Binary. [Direct URL]

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