Interested in learning more about LGBTQIA+ people around the world? Here is further reading about gender non-conforming people and same sex relationships in the modern era.
Africa
LGBTQIA+ documentaries from Africa
Notable Trans and Gender Non-Conforming West Africans (French/English)
Notable Transgender and Nonbinary East Africans (Swahili/English)
Queer identities and relationships as part of cultural traditions:
- LGBTQ+ customs in Southern Africa
- LGBTQ+ customs in Central Africa
- LGBTQ+ customs in West Africa
- LGBTQ+ customs in East Africa
Turtle Island and Abya Yala
2SLGBTQIA+ people in the indigenous nations of North America (Turtle Island)
LGBTQIA+ documentaries from Latin America
South Asian Americans working towards LGBTQ+ equality and visibility
Asia
LGBTQIA+ documentaries from Asia
Where feminine power and trans-inclusiveness go hand-in-hand
TERFness isn’t a cultural universal. Learn from the precolonial Philippines.
Non-binary gender and same sex love in South Asian traditions
List of South Asian academics and content creators who present LGBT stories from history and tradition.
LGBTQ+ people in traditional and contemporary Southeast Asia
List of books /articles about TGNC people in precolonial /indigenous SEA cultures. List of stories about LGBTQ+ lives in contemporary SEA nations.
Queer symbolism in East Asia
Rose, lily, chrysanthemum, cut sleeve
Resources for learning about queer South Asian experiences
Intersectionality and allyship
Queer Muslims from Around the World
Doc umentaries about LGBTQ+ refugees and asylum seekers
Resources connecting LGBTQ+ people of color and/or allies of color (US-focused)
Black allyship for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States
Community building at the intersection of Muslim and transgender/non-binary identities
Pronoun awareness
History makers who use “they/them” pronouns! 8 remarkable individuals from 4 countries on 3 continents!
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Building civilizations without distinguishing between ‘she’ and ‘he’
For millennia, much of the world has been getting on just fine speaking languages that use gender neutral third person pronouns. (Hint: English-speaking societies aren’t going to crumble because of singular “they/them”.)
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