The LGBTQ+ Network's Entertainment Recommendations for LGBTQ+ History Month

It’s LGBTQ+ History Month! To celebrate members of the LGBTQ+ Staff and Postgraduate Network have come together to share their recommendations for LGBTQ+ entertainment. Whether you’re looking to expand your reading list, find a new podcast or want something to binge on Netflix this weekend. Why not check out what we recommend!

Books

• The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
• The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
• Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
• Infamous by Lex Croucher
• Nimona – ND Stevenson
• My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson
• And the Band Played on by Randy Shilts
• A Dowry of Blood by S.T Gibson
• An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson
• Bright Falls series by Ashley Herring Blake
• Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
• Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Pageboy by Elliot Page
• Wilder Girls by Rory Power
• Kiss Her Once for me by Alison Cochrun
• The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
• Bad Gays by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller
• The Gay who Turned Kaiju by Kazuki Minamoto
• A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
• When Angels Left the Old Country Sacha Lamb
• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
• Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Danny Lavery
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Lilith’s Brood by Octavia Butler
• Dawn by Octavia Butler
• Adulthood Rites by Octavia Butler
• Imago by Octavia Butler
• Dreadnought by April Daniels
• Sovereign by April Daniels
• Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
• The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley
• Annex by R Larson
• Ancillary Justice by A Leckie
• Provenance by A Leckie
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
• The Birthday of the World by Ursula Le Guin
• Woman on the Edge of Time by M Piercy
• Meanwhile, Elsewhere by C Fitzpatrick and C Plett
• The Female Man by Joanna Russ
• A Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells
• The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
• See also authors T J Klune and Sarah Waters

Films

• Disclosure
• But I’m a Cheerleader
• Pride!
• Nimona
• Bottoms
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Shiva, Baby
• Bound
• Fire Island
• All of Us Strangers
• Tell it to the Bees
• Ammonite
• Summerland

TV Shows

• Heartstopper
• Gentleman Jack
• Sha-Ra and the Princess of Power
• Big Boys
• First Kill
• Sense8

Games

• The Last of Us
• Your Royal Gayness
• Gone Home
• Life Is Strange
• Celeste
• If Found
• Baldurs Gate 3
• Dragon Age
• Mass Effect
• Night In The Woods
• The Outer Worlds
• Legends of Tomorrow

Songs

• Prove it on me Blues by Ma Rainey
• Pride by Grace Petrie
• Black Tie by Grace Petrie
• She’s My Religion by Pale Waves
• Silk Chiffon by MUNA and Pheobe Bridges
• One of my Girls by Troye Sivan

Podcasts

• Handsome
• Queer Movie Podcast
• Green Dreamer
• Bad Gays
• Gender Reveal
• Outward