At G Adventures, we love seeing the world with everybody together with all of our proud lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, and ally travellers. In celebration of Delight Month, we need to hear much more from LGBTQIA+ artists, authors and creators and a part of that’s sharing their tales broadly. We’ll get you began with our record of high reads, watches, listens, and locations to assemble proudly.
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We Are In all places by Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown
Wealthy and sweeping photographic historical past of the Queer Liberation Motion, from the creators and curators of the massively widespread Instagram account @lgbt_history.
The Stonewall Reader by The New York Public Library
Assortment of first accounts, diaries, periodic literature, and articles from LGBTQ magazines and newspapers documenting each the years main as much as and the years following the riots.
How To Survive a Plague by David France
Definitive historical past of the profitable battle to halt the AIDS epidemic and the grassroots activists whose work turned HIV from a principally deadly an infection to a manageable illness.
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Groundbreaking novel about love and the concern of affection, set among the many bohemian bars and nightclubs of Fifties Paris.
Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia
Coronary heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it is wish to develop up undecided if you happen to’re (a) a boy, (b) a woman, (c) one thing in between, or (d) the entire above.
Fairest: A Memoir by Meredith Talusan
A “solar baby” from a rural Philippine village grows as much as turn out to be a lady in America. Her reflections shift our personal perceptions of affection, identification, gender, and the equity of life.
This Is How It All the time Is by Laurie Frankel
Novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and household. A fifth child boy joins a big, loving, chaotic household however Claude solely desires to be one factor when he grows up: a woman.
How We Struggle For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Memoir of a younger, black, homosexual man from the South as he fights to carve out a spot for himself, inside his household, his nation, and his personal hopes, wishes, and fears.
Name Me By Your Title by André Aciman
Set in Eighties Italy, this coming-of-age story is a transcendent story of old flame, tailored into a movie in 2017 by Luca Guadagnino. Advised from the angle of Elio Perlman, a 17-year-old Jewish-Italian boy, it chronicles how he falls in love with Oliver, a 24-year-old American scholar.
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It’s a Sin
Heartfelt chronicle of younger associates navigating the thrill, heartbreak, and outlandish events that await them amidst the AIDS epidemic in Eighties London.
The Demise and Lifetime of Marsha P. Johnson
In David France’s documentary, trans activist Victoria Cruz seeks to uncover the reality of a homosexual rights icons’ loss of life whereas celebrating her legacy.
Moonlight
A younger African American man grapples along with his identification and sexuality whereas experiencing the on a regular basis struggles of childhood, adolescence and burgeoning maturity.
Milk
His life modified historical past. His braveness modified lives. Primarily based on the inspiring true story of the primary brazenly homosexual man elected to main public workplace within the least tolerant instances in U.S. historical past.
Love, Simon
The story of an adolescent who’s outed in school, feels fully alone and the way he comes by the opposite facet.
The Promenade
A Broadway solid determined to enhance their fading careers come to the rescue of a highschool pupil banned from attending Promenade together with her girlfriend.
Disclosure
Unprecedented, eye-opening have a look at transgender depictions in movie and tv, revealing how Hollywood concurrently displays and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender.
God’s Personal Nation
Primarily based within the barren moors of West Yorkshire, this hopeful love story follows self-destructive farmer Johnny, whose life modifications when he meets Romanian migrant employee Gheorge.
Weekend
Directed by Andrew Haigh — who lately introduced us the critically-acclaimed All of Us Strangers — Weekend follows lifeguard Russell, who meets artist Glen on an evening out. What begins as a one-night stand, turns right into a profound weekend with one another as they cowl life, identification, and relationships.
Carol
Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara star on this adaptation of the 1952 novel The Worth of Salt by Patricia Highsmith. Set in Fifties New York, Carol tells the story of a forbidden love affair between two ladies from very completely different backgrounds.
Will and Harper
A heartfelt and humorous documentary that includes actor Will Ferrell and his longtime buddy, author Harper Steele. The movie chronicles their 17-day street journey from NYC to LA, exploring their friendship and the transgender expertise too.
Femme
This sensible psychological thriller follows London drag performer Jules, who’s violently attacked by the seemingly homophobic Preston on an evening out. Months later, Jules runs into Preston at a homosexual sauna — what follows is a posh relationship pushed by revenge.
Heartstopper
This pleasant coming-of-age sequence follows the blossoming relationship between Charlie Spring, a shy and homosexual pupil at Truham Grammar College, and Nick Nelson, a preferred rugby participant. As their friendship turns to romance, they and their associates navigate the complexities of being an adolescent.
Drive-Away Dolls
2024 crime caper from none apart from Ethan Coen, which follows lesbian finest mates Jamie (Margaret Qualley) and Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan) who embark on a street journey from Philadelphia to Tallahassee. Little do they know that there’s a basket with a severed head and a briefcase within the trunk…
Pose
An acclaimed sequence set in late 80s and early 90s NYC, which spotlights the world of LGBTQ+ ball tradition, significantly inside Black and Latino communities. That includes a solid of principally transgender and LGBTQ+ actors, its three seasons delve into the idea of ‘homes’ — chosen households dwelling underneath one roof — in addition to the AIDS disaster.
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LGBTQ&A Jeffrey Masters Podcast
Lengthy-form interviews with influential LGBTQ+ folks like Roxane Homosexual, Laverne Cox and Pete Buttigieg.
19 of one of the best LGBTQ+ podcasts everybody ought to take heed to
Cosmopolitan gathers one of the best new and up-and-coming podcasts from around the globe.
15 LGBTQ podcasts that’ll make you proud year-round
Every decide occupies a special spot on the LGBTQ spectrum for quite a lot of voices and views.
Spotify: Delight Celebration 2025
Press play in your good Delight pop soundtrack and go all out in celebration. It’s Britney bitch.
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Delight Toronto June 26–29, 2025
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New York Delight June 29, 2025
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