The LGBTQIA+ community is being viciously targeted now by state and federal officials. Pride is a good time to focus on becoming better allies, accomplices, friends and co-conspirators. Please see my post about Pride last year. I’ve also heard a specific ask this year: if you’re in a position to hire, or recommend people to be hired, hire trans people, as discrimination against trans people is becoming normalized.

June 1 The T.R.U.T.H. Project presents the 5th Annual And Through Their Eyes Grow Thorns Art Exhibition: Joy Found Us, an exploration of storytelling through a Queer Lens of Color

June 6 Baker Ripley Pride Paint

June 6 Moonlight screening at River Oaks Theater

June 7 Karaoke Pride

June 7-8 Symposium: Town Meeting 1978-2028 A weekend of Panels, Workshops, Manifestos, Arts and Community exploring Houston’s LGBTQ history and visioning our shared queer future.

June 14 Fade to Black Arts Festival: Theater, Music, Poetry & Film. Hip Hop Talk Back Honoring K-Rino

June 15 Houston Pride Grand Marshall Reception

June 20 Monica Roberts event about the price of trans visibility at Heritage Society of Houston

June 21 Houston Pride Band at M.A.T.C.H.

June 25 Rock The Runway® 2025 | Official Pride Fashion Show

June 27 Eden® 2025 | Official Pride Girl+ Party

June 27 Underground Pride Houston ’25

June 26-27 Ballet Trocadero

June 27 Houston Trans Pride

June 28 Pride 365 Houston Parade

June 29 7th Annual Pride Houston Brunch benefitting the Montrose Center

Books recommended by a trans activist: The Color Purple and its sequel The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker, The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall, Prayers for Bobby: A Mother’s Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son by Leroy Aarons, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts.

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Films recommended by a trans activist: But I Am A Cheerleader, If These Walls Could Talk 2, Desert Hearts, and Fire (from India).

Films I recommend: Moonlight (screening at River Oaks Theater June 6), Rustin (Netflix), Stonewall, The Crying Game, Call Me By Your Name, La Cage Aux Folles, To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newman, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Prom (on Netflix), Dallas Buyers Club, Milk, The Imitation Game, Bent, Rent, The Inspection, Nyad (Netflix), Battle of the Sexes, The Power of the Dog, Disclosure.

Streaming series I recommend: AJ and the Queen, Secret of the River on Netflix, Queer Eye, Pose, Transparent, Will & Grace, Angels in America.

Please leave a comment if there’s something you’d like me to add. Or subtract.