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Ammonite (2020)
In 1840s England, acclaimed fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
Before Stonewall (1984)
In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's gay community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the Gay Liberation Movement had begun.
BEFORE STONEWALL pries open the closet door--setting free the dramatic story of the sometimes horrifying public and private existences experienced by gay and lesbian Americans since the 1920s. Revealing and often humorous, this widely acclaimed film relives the emotionally-charged sparking of today's gay rights movement, from the events that led to the fevered 1969 riots to many other milestones in the brave fight for acceptance.
Experience the fascinating and unforgettable, decade-by-decade history of homosexuality in America through eye-opening historical footage and amazing interviews with those who lived through an often brutal closeted history.
Narrated by Rita Mae Brown.
I Am Divine (2013)
Packed with great interviews and clips, this dynamic, fun and often poignant portrait of the legendary Divine brings to life a complex understanding of John Waters’s favored muse. I Am Divine is the story of Divine, aka Harris Glenn Milstead, from his humble beginnings as an overweight, teased Baltimore youth to internationally recognized drag superstar through his collaboration with filmmaker John Waters. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body image, gender identity, sexuality, and preconceived notions of beauty, Divine was the ultimate outsider turned underground royalty. With a completely committed in-your-face style, he blurred the line between performer and personality, and revolutionized pop culture. I Am Divine is a definitive biographical portrait that charts the legendary icon’s emotional complexities and rise to infamy.
Portrait of a Lady On Fire (2019)
Marianne is hired to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse. As the women orbit each other, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse's first moments of freedom.
Nominated for Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language at the Golden Globes. Winner of Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival.
Stonewall Uprising (2010)
In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. Such raids were not unusual in the late 1960s, an era when homosexual sex was illegal in every state but Illinois. That night, however, the street erupted into violent protests and demonstrations that lasted for the next six days.
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.
About LGBTQIA+
Creating an LGBTQ-Friendly Space
This instructional video, from the 'Reaching Teens: Strength-Based Communication Strategies to Build Resilience and Support Healthy Adolescent Development' series produced by the American Academy of Pediatrics, is a discussion about creating an LGBTQ-friendly space in a medical care setting.
How to create an inclusive workplace for LGBTQ employees
Scott Beth, chief diversity and inclusion officer at Intuit, discusses how to create an inclusive and diverse workplace on National Coming Out Day.
LGBTQ & microaggressions.
Jess Guerriero, MA, MSW, discusses the gender binary, microaggressions, and the LGBTQ community.
Counseling LGBTQIA+ Clients
Affirmative practice with LBGTQ clients (Mark Gianino)
Social workers are compelled by their Code of Ethics to uphold the dignity and worth of every person and to challenge injustice where they see its occurrence. In working with LGBTQ persons, Mark Gianino, PhD MSW, encourages social workers to move beyond mere tolerance, and toward an integration of knowledge, skills assessment and intervention as well as advocacy within agencies and beyond. In two demonstration sessions featuring the same client, we first see Mark display a lack of awareness and skills when working with his client, who identifies as gender queer. This 'blooper' session is followed by a second, corrected, 'best practices' session where the original mistakes are averted, and an affirmative approach is shown. Mark Gianino is Clinical Associate Professor of Clinical Practice at Boston University's School of Social Work. His research interests include gay and lesbian parenthood, transracial adoption, suicide assessment and intervention, and education and training in group work. Dr. Gianino has worked for over 30 years as as a clinician, supervisor, and administrator in outpatient and inpatient mental health settings as well as group and independent private practice.
Counseling Gay and Lesbian People of Color: Multiple Identities: Part 1 (Kevin Nadal)
Counseling Gay and Lesbian People of Color: Multiple Identities: A two part series; Dr. Kevin Nadal, John Jay College of Criminal Justice This two part series presents real-life examples of individuals with multiple identities. Through exploring these clients' presenting problems, Dr. Nadal is able to examine how their racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual identities may influence their lives, as well as how they cope with their situations. Dr. Nadal uses culturally sensitive skills in assessing client concerns, and helps them move towards becoming healthier and happier individuals. The clients are not actors. They are people who agreed to share their real life problems.Multiple Identities: Counseling Gay and Lesbian People of Color Part 2Dr. Nadal counsels a Latino gay male who shares his anxieties about his family, lack of support system, and desire for a long-term relationship. He encourages the client to talk about repressed feelings regarding his identity development, as well as the cultural influences of the client's coming out processes.
Counseling Gay and Lesbian People of Color: Multiple Identities: Part 2 (Kevin Nadal)
Counseling Gay and Lesbian People of Color: Multiple Identities: A two part series Dr. Kevin Nadal, John Jay College of Criminal Justice This two part series presents real-life examples of individuals with multiple identities. Through exploring these clients' presenting problems, Dr. Nadal is able to examine how their racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual identities may influence their lives, as well as how they cope with their situations. Dr. Nadal uses culturally sensitive skills in assessing client concerns, and helps them move towards becoming healthier and happier individuals. The clients are not actors. They are people who agreed to share their real life problems.Multiple Identities: Counseling Gay and Lesbian People of Color Part 1Dr. Nadal counsels an Asian, Filipina-American lesbian woman who moved the U.S. when she was a teenager. Issues of acculturation, coming-out, and identity are explored.
Culturally alert counseling. Counseling gay and lesbian youth (Garrett McAuliffe)
This video presents clips of culturally diverse counseling sessions and teaches key skills for working with diverse clients. It features four gay and lesbian individuals and includes strategies for working with people in the identity confusion or coming out phases of gay and lesbian identity.
Psychotherapy with gay, lesbian and bisexual clients. Program 1, Historical perspectives
"This training video explores the history of mental health practice with gay, lesbian, and bisexual people. You will deepen your understanding of some of the most important historical developments from ancient times to the present, including early attempts to pathologize and change homosexuality; the influences that led to the depathologizing of homosexuality; the contemporary bias in psychotherapy, illustrated by a poignant account of therapy abuse by Robert Gentry, the nation's first openly gay mayor; "conversion therapies" to repathologize homosexuality and modern attempts to change sexual orientation; recent affirmative mental health approaches; and the current APA guidelines for working with GLB clients. Includes real testimony of affirmative psychotherapy from a client after years of negative therapy experiences. Intended for students and practitioners in clinical psychology, counseling, social work, and related health professions." Supplied by publisher.
Psychotherapy with gay, lesbian and bisexual clients. Program 2, Individual assessment and psychotherapy
"This training video addresses some of the most salient assessment and treatment issues that clinicians should know about psychotherapy with gay, lesbian, and bisexual clients. You will learn about the effectiveness of cognitive therapy with this population; implications of internalized homophobia and the importance of hypothesis testing in therapy; assessment of presenting problems and stages of identity development for GLB clients; and heterosexist bias in diagnosis of several DSM-IV-TR disorders. The last half of the program features a simulation of two therapy sessions by Dr. Christine Padesky with "Greg" on his coming-out issues, as well as descriptions of the therapy process and techniques being demonstrated. Intended for students and practitioners in clinical psychology, counseling, social work, and related health professions." Supplied by publisher.
Psychotherapy with gay, lesbian and bisexual clients. Program 3, Relationships, families and couples counseling
"In this training video, a group of researcher-clinicians discuss they ways in which gay, lesbian, and bisexual couples and families differ from heterosexual ones in issues related to social context and societal stigmatization. Featured are Dr. Robert Jay Green on relational ambiguity, sexual exclusivity, and development of social support networks; Dr. Armand Cerbone and Green on internalized homophobia; Dr. Richard Rodriguez on the importance of families of choice for GLB couples; and Dr. Isaiah Crawford on research-based characteristics of GLB family constellations. You will deepen your understanding of GLB relationships and families, allowing you to be more effective in conducting individual and couples therapy with this population. Intended for students and practitioners in clinical psychology, counseling, social work, and related health professions." Supplied by publisher.
Psychotherapy with gay, lesbian and bisexual clients. Program 4, The coming out process
"This training video features three diverse personal coming-out stories and commentary from noted experts and researchers in the field of LGBT psychotherapy. Featured are a young African American woman who was institutionalized when she told her parents; a retired professional Latino man who came out to his wife and children later in life; and an affirming mother who shares the process her family went through when her teenage son came out to them. Commentary is provided by Dr. Eli Coleman, Dr. Sari Dworkin, and Dr. Ritch Savin-Williams. You will learn about the usefulness and limitations of Dr. Coleman's frequently cited coming-out stages; how to assist clients with their coming out process; and the process parents go through when their GLB child comes out to them, including helpful suggestions to parents on their adjustment process. Intended for students and practitioners in clinical psychology, counseling, social work, and related health professions." Supplied by publisher.
Psychotherapy with gay, lesbian and bisexual clients. Program 5, The bisexual experience
"This training video discusses the psychology of bisexuality, with cutting-edge research presented by some of the leading scholars in the field. Featured are three bisexual individuals, Greg, Susannah, and Skott, who share their insightful personal journeys; Dr. Fritz Klein on his famous grid to demonstrate the multivariable and fluid nature of sexual orientation; Dr. Sari Dworkin on various definitions, models, and types of bisexuality, as well as the developmental challenges of bisexual identity and the bisexual coming-out process; and Dr. Mary Bradford with Dr. Ron Fox on educating therapists on how to provide more effective and affirming mental health services to bisexual women and men. Intended for students and practitioners in clinical psychology, counseling, social work, and related health professions." Supplied by publisher.
Psychotherapy with gay, lesbian and bisexual clients. Program 6, Diversity and multiple identities
"This training video highlights personal accounts by GLB individuals from diverse ethnic groups as they manage conflicting allegiances within multiple groups. Lesbians, gay, and bisexual people of color must manage conflicting allegiances with divergent social worlds including their ethnic culture, the majority culture and the gay/bisexual community. You will see personal accounts by GLB individuals from various ethnic groups, as well as commentary by Dr. Beverly Greene and other distinguished experts. The final segment shows a reenactment of a compelling cross-cultural therapy session by Dr. Christine Padesky with a Korean lesbian client. Intended for students and practitioners in clinical psychology, counseling, social work, and related health professions." Supplied by publisher.
Psychotherapy with gay, lesbian and bisexual clients. Program 7, Sexual minority adolescents
"In this training video, Dr. Ritch Savin-Williams, Dr. Karla Anhalt, and Teresa DeCrescenzo discuss the latest psychological research and effective treatment approaches for GLB adolescents. You will learn about typical adolescent developmental milestones; four key "differential developmental trajectories"--a comprehensive model for understanding healthy GLB identity development; stressors common to identifying as GLB during adolescence, including loss of social support, victimization/harassment, suicidality, high-risk sexual behavior and substance abuse; ways to help GLB youth become resistant to potential stressors; and the paradigm shift from a pathologizing model to a strength-based treatment approach that includes mentoring, trust building, adjusting to social roles, building resiliency against harassment, and dealing with religious conflicts. Intended for students and practitioners in clinical psychology, counseling, social work, and related health professions." Supplied by publisher.
Queer Theory in Action: Theoretical Resources for Therapeutic Conversations (Julie Tilsen, David Nylund)
Dr. Julie Tilsen and Dr. David Nylund illustrate the clinical application of queer theory. Queer theory, a set of ideas that challenge notions of fixed identity categories, can be useful in helping clients unpack taken for granted ideas about sex and gender. Dr. Nylund uses a queer theory-informed practice to aid Gwen, a transgender female, appreciate her journey of gender transition; the obstacles she has faced and the skills and courage it has taken to express her non-normative gender identity. Dr. Tilsen works with Tighearnan, a transgender male, to help him navigate his relationship with his mother in a way that does not compromise his gender identity.
Working Effectively and Affirmatively With Queer and Questioning Youth
The life experiences of queer and questioning youth are, in general, not that different from other adolescents' experiences in today's world. The most profound difference is that queer and questioning youth experience a challenging developmental stage through the harsh lens of societal homoprejudice. Each stage and transition is compounded by societal bigotry and discrimination, locally, nationally, and globally. Add to this experience the additional multiple ethnic and racial identities and adolescence becomes, at best, extraordinarily complicated and, at worst, harrowing and potentially life-threatening. The Presenter will demonstrate how to effectively address the myriad issues of adolescence while affirmatively acknowledging and honoring different and unique identities emphasizing strengths and possibilities while ameliorating pain and disenfranchisement.
