Celebrate Pride Month alongside Kansas City PBS with films, series and specials that explore the LGBTQ+ experience in America and around the world. Throughout June, we will be airing special programming, with additional shows available online and via Passport.
Check out some of our Pride Month picks below.
You can find even more LGBTQ programming at the PBS Pride Month Hub.
Transgender teen, Jazz Jennings, narrates this onehour documentary exploring the history of public gay identity in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) community from the 1950s through today.
Discover Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (The Trocks), an all-male company that for 45 years has offered audiences their passion for ballet classics mixed with exuberant comedy. With every step, they poke fun at their strictly gendered art form.
When Johanna, a 16-year-old transgender Latina, begins her transition and gets kicked out of her home and school, she finds a foster family who loves her and a supportive school principal who helps her graduate and thrive.
Follow queer actor Dyllón Burnside on a journey to discover how LGBTQ Americans are finding ways to live authentically and with pride in the modern South.
On June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. Over the next three days, violent protests and demonstrations erupted. The Stonewall riots marked a major turning point in the gay civil rights movement in the U.S. and around the world.
Experience the power of song in the struggle for equality through the story of feminist singer and activist Holly Near, who for the last 40 years has worked on global social justice coalition-building in the women’s and lesbian movements.
Join Ann Curry as those whose lives were changed by the early days of the gay rights movement reunite. Tom wants to find the childhood friend who urged him to come out, while Paul seeks a fellow student who inspired him to stand up for his beliefs.
Two love stories, 60 years apart, chart the changes and challenges in gay lives in England — from the era of jail terms to the onset of dating apps.
As the AIDS epidemic took hold in the early 1980s, self-help guru Louise Hay created a space for healing called the Hayride. Drawing hundreds of gay men confronting a deadly pandemic, Louise promised that self-love would help them overcome AIDS.
Kansas City PBS members can enjoy expanded access to these additional holiday programs through Kansas City PBS Passport, an on-demand streaming service. For more information, to sign in or to sign up for Passport visit kansascitypbs.org/passport.
