Join AWP in honoring Pride Month this June!

AWP has assembled a list of resources including in-person and online events, interactive and informative websites, author interviews, and other diverse programming. On this page you will find articles, videos, and other educational resources about Pride Month and the LGBTQIA+ community, but be sure to head over to our Pride Month Literary Events 2023 Writer’s News piece for more ways to show up for the LGBTQIA+ community, and pick up a new book from our Pride Month Reading List.

From The Writer’s Chronicle

Nonfiction/Nonbinary Literary Identities: An Investigation of Contemporary Writers Queering Gen(der/re) in America by Chachi Houser, April 2021

You Are Making Me Now: Writing God as a Contemporary American Poet by Joy Ladin, May/Summer 2017

GLBTQ Protagonists and the Mainstream Market by Krista Humphery, March/April 2015

The Lesbian Writer & the General Reader by Honor Moore, March/April 1990

Concerning Being Queer by Allan Gurganus, March/April 1990

An Interview with Jericho Brown by Jona Colson, November 2020

Rewatch Online Events

Virtual AWP Pedagogy: Supporting LGBTQ Students in the Creative Writing Classroom

#AWP22 Chosen Families: A Reading & Conversation Presented by Red Hen Press 

On the AWP website

Interview with David Laidacker-Luna, President, Fiesta Youth by Ely Vance, February 2020

Queer Words: Reflections on Facilitating Writing Workshops with Homeless LGBTQ Youth by Sassafras Lowrey, June 2019

Writing While… by A. Poythress, June 2019

Reclaiming the Pansy by Bruce Owens Grimm, June 2019

Podcast Episode 123: How Gay Is This Book?: 21st Century Approaches to the LGBTQ Classroom 

History and Further Learning Links

 “Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement” a timeline article of American LGBTQ+ History from the mid-1900s to present-day published by PBS.

"A Timeline of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in the United States" provided by GSAFE.

“Queer History,” an article written by Christina B. Hanhardt for the Organization of American Historians.

Out in Rural America, a documentary by PBS featuring the highs and lows of living as an LGBTQ+ person in rural America.

“A Brief History of Queer Language Before Queer Identity,” by Jeanna Cadlec for Lit Hub.

Stay informed about our next conference in Kansas City, Missouri with our #AWP24 Updates & Resources page.

See our 2023 Pride Month Literary Events page for relevant and exciting online events.