The LGBT Center of Raleigh is physically closed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but we continue to meet virtually! Those virtual offerings can be found here. If you have questions or are seeking resources, you can call 919-832-4484 seven days a week between the hours of 12pm and 4pm, and your call will be answered by a staff member or volunteer.
We continue to work with our partners at the Alliance of AIDS Services - Carolina on creating a plan to resume HIV and STI testing at the Center and will make an announcement by the end of July!
Thank you and we look forward to seeing you again soon!
Transgender in the Media
Growing up trans, it is hard to find positive role models or representations of trans people within the main stream media. This list contains many (yes many) media outlets that you can find positive, interesting and educational materials and artists focusing on the transgender experience.
Music:
Television (T) and Movies (M):
- (M) XXY
- (M) Gun Hill Road
- (M) Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- (T) TransGeneration
- (T) Transgender and Pregnant
- (M) Spork
- (M) Boys Don’t Cry
- (M) Boy I am
- (M) Beautiful Daughter
- (M) My Life in Pink
- (T) My Transexual Summer
- (M) Soldier’s Girl
- (M) Breakfast on Pluto
- (M) Tomboy
- (M) Albert Nobbs
- (M) Trans America
- (T) Prodigal Sons
- (M) She's a Boy I Knew
- (M) Trans: The Move
- (T) Hit & Miss
Literature: (Most of these can be borrowed from the LGBT Center of Raleigh Library)
- Transgender 101: A simple Guide to a Complex Issue - Nicholas M Teich
- Making Faces - Kevyn Aucoin
- Just Add Hormones - Matt Kailey
- She’s Not There - Jennifer Boylan
- Whipping Girl - Julia Serano (lead singer of “Bitesize”)
- Middle Sex - Jeffrey Eugenides
- Gender Outlaw - Kate Bornstein
- 10000 Dresses - Marcus Ewert
- Transgender History - Susan Stryker
- My Husband Betty - Helen Boyd
- She’s Not the Man I Married - Helen Boyd
- F2M - Hazel Edwards and Ryan Kennedy
- Transparent - Cris Beam
- The Youngest Finds Joy - Rebecca Chapin
- I'm Looking Through You - Jenny Boylan