
RESOURCES
On this page, we provide lists of resources that may be helpful to LGBTQ+ people. The organizations below are friendly to LGBTQ+ people, are focused on serving LGBTQ+ people, or are led by LGBTQ+ people. The musical works, movies, and books below feature LGBTQ+ characters, LGBTQ+ historical figures, or LGBTQ+ contributors. If you know of a resource that does not appear below but should, then please email us at FranklinLGBTQAlliance@gmail.com!
organizations
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Franklin Senior Center
10 Daniel McCahill Street
Franklin, Massachusetts 02038
508-520-4945Franklin TV
23 Hutchinson Street
Franklin, Massachusetts 02038
508-541-4118OUT MetroWest
160 Hollis Street
Framingham, MA 01702
508-875-2122
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Elizabeth’s Bagels
456 West Central Street
Franklin, Massachusetts 02038
508-541-3988Pete’s Nerd Emporium
10 Main Street
Franklin, Massachusetts 02038
508-346-3809
MUSICAL WORKS
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Blanchard, Terence. Champion. Lib. Michael Cristofer. Prem. Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Jazz Saint Louis, June 15, 2013.
Eötvös, Peter. Angels in America. Lib. Mari Mezei. Prem. Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, November 23, 2004.
Kimper, Paula M. Patience and Sarah. Lib. Wende Persons. Prem. Lincoln Center Festival, July 8, 1998.
Puts, Kevin. The Hours. Lib. Greg Pierce. Prem. Metropolitan Opera, November 22, 2022.
Spears, Gregory. Fellow Travelers. Lib. Greg Pierce. Prem. Cincinnati Opera, June 17, 2016.
Wallace, Stewart. Harvey Milk. Lib. Michael Korie. Prem. Houston Grand Opera, January 21, 1995.
Wuorinen, Charles. Brokeback Mountain. Lib. Annie Proulx. Prem. Teatro Real, Madrid, January 28, 2014.
MOVIES
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(A)sexual. Dir. Angela Tucker. Prod. Big Mouth Productions and TuckerGurl LLC, 2011.
Boys Don’t Cry. Dir. Kimberly Peirce. Prod. Independent Film Channel Productions, Killer Films, and Hart-Sharp Entertainment, 1999.
Capote. Dir. Bennett Miller. Prod. United Artists, A-Line Pictures, Cooper’s Town Productions, et al., 2005.
Codebreaker. Dir. Clare Beavan and Nic Stacey. Prod. Story Center Productions LLC, 2011.
Kinsey. Dir. Bill Condon. Prod. American Zoetrope and Myriad Pictures, 2004.
Maestro. Dir. Bradley Cooper. Prod. Lea Pictures, Sikelia Productions, Amblin Entertainment, et al., 2023.
Margaret Mead and Samoa. Dir. Frank Heimans. Prod. Cinetel Productions Ltd., 1988.
Milk. Dir. Gus Van Sant. Prod. Groundswell Productions, Axon Films, and Jinks/Cohen Company, 2008.
Orchids: My Intersex Adventure. Dir. Phoebe Hart. Prod. Hartflicker Moving Pictures, 2010.
Orgasm, Inc. Dir. Liz Canner. Prod. Astrea Media, 2009.
“Sex: Unknown.” Nova. Prod. Public Broadcasting Service, October 30, 2001.
The Imitation Game. Dir. Morten Tyldum. Prod. Black Bear Pictures, Bristol Automotive, and Orange Corp, 2014.
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A Single Man. Dir. Tom Ford. Prod. Artina Films, Depth of Field, and Fade to Black, 2009.
Brokeback Mountain. Dir. Ang Lee. Prod. River Road Entertainment, 2005.
But I’m a Cheerleader. Dir. Jamie Babbit. Prod. Ignite Entertainment and The Kushner-Locke Company, 1999.
Kiss of the Spider Woman. Dir. Héctor Babenco. Prod. FilmDallas Pictures, Sugarloaf Films, and HB Filmes, 1985.
Love and Death on Long Island. Dir. Richard Kwietniowski. Prod. Lions Gate Films, BBC Films, Imagex, et al., 1997.
Maurice. Dir. James Ivory. Prod. Merchant Ivory Productions and Film Four International, 1987.
Queer. Dir. Luca Guadagnino. Prod. Fremantle North America, The Apartment Pictures, and Frenesy Film Company, 2024.
Reflections in a Golden Eye. Dir. John Huston. Prod. Ray Stark, 1967.
The Color Purple. Dir. Stephen Spielberg. Prod. Amblin Entertainment and The Guber- Peters Company, 1985.
The Hours. Dir. Stephen Daldry. Prod. Miramax Films and Scott Rudin Productions, 2002.
Transamerica. Dir. Duncan Tucker. Prod. Belladonna Productions, 2005.
BOOKS
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Erickson-Schroth, Laura, ed. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Halsall, Alison, and Jonathan Warren, ed. The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2022.
Petersen, Jay Kyle. The Comprehensive Guide to Intersex. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2021.
Summers, Claude J., ed. The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader’s Companion to the Writers and Their Works, from Antiquity to the Present. Rev. ed. New York: Routledge, 2002.
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Al-Solaylee, Kamal. Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2012.
Brown, Jennifer. How To Be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive. 2nd ed. Oakland: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2022.
Chen, Angela. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex. Boston: Beacon, 2020.
Edozien, Chike Frankie. Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving As an African Gay Man: A Memoir. London: Team Angelica Publishing, 2017.
Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2007.
Pessoa, Fernando. Always Astonished: Selected Prose. Ed. and trans. Edwin Honig. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1988.
Whitman, Walt. Specimen Days and Collect. Garden City: Dover Publications, 2022.
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1989.
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Bechdel, Alison. Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama. New York: Mariner Books, 2013.
Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. New York: Mariner Books, 2007.
Franklin, Tee, Jenn St-Onge, Joy San, et al. Bingo Love: Jackpot Edition. Portland: Image Comics, Inc., 2022.
Kaye, Julie. My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2021.
Kaye, Julia. Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2018.
Kobabe, Maia. Gender Queer: A Memoir. Portland: Oni Press, 2019.
Tagame, Gengoroh. My Brother’s Husband. Volumes 1 and 2. New York: Pantheon Books, 2020.
Tagame, Gengoroh. Our Colors. New York: Pantheon Books, 2022.
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Albee, Edward. The American Dream and The Zoo Story. New York: Plume, 1997.
Kushner, Tony. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Parts 1 and 2. Rev. and complete ed. New York: Theatre Communications Group, Inc., 2013.
Kuzmin, Mikhail. “The Venetian Madcaps”. Selected Prose and Poetry of Mikhail Kuzmin. Ed. and trans. Michael Green. New York: Ardis, 2013.
Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays. Trans. Allan Baker and Ronald Christ. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1994.
Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. New York: Barnes and Noble, 2015.
Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. New York: Avon Books, 1965.
Wilder, Thornton. Our Town. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2020.
Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New York: Signet, 1958.
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Crane, Hart. The Complete Poems of Hart Crane: The Centennial Edition. Ed. Marc Simon. New York: Liveright, 2001.
Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ed. Thomas H. Johnson. New York: Back Bay Books, 1961.
Ginsberg, Allen. Howl and Other Poems. San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 1959.
Kuzmin, Mikhail. “Alexandrian Songs”. Selected Prose and Poetry of Mikhail Kuzmin. Ed. and trans. Michael Green. New York: Ardis, 2013.
Pessoa, Fernando. A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems. Trans. Richard Zenith. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
Pessoa, Fernando. English Poems. Pesaro: Intra, 2022.
Pessoa, Fernando. Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems. Ed. and trans. Richard Zenith. New York: Grove, 2022.
Pessoa, Fernando. Poems of Fernando Pessoa. Trans. and ed. Edwin Honig and Susan M. Brown. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1998.
Pessoa, Fernando. The Book of Disquiet. Ed. and trans. Richard Zenith. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.
Pessoa, Fernando. The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos. Ed. Jerónimo Pizarro and Antonio Cardiello. Trans. Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2023.
Pessoa, Fernando. The Complete Works of Alberto de Caeiro. Ed. Jerónimo Pizarro and Antonio Cardiello. Trans. Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2020.
Rimbaud, Arthur. Rimbaud Complete. Trans. and ed. Wyatt Mason. New York: The Modern Library, 2003.
Sappho. The Poetry of Sappho: An Expanded Edition Featuring Newly Discovered Poems. 2nd ed. Trans. Jim Powell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems. Ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2006.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition. New York: Penguin Books, 2005.
Whitman, Walt. The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman. Ware: Wordsworth Poetry Library, 2006.
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Adair, Gilbert. Love and Death on Long Island. New York: Random House, 1990.
Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2006.
Burroughs, William S. Queer: A Novel. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.
Cunningham, Michael. The Hours: A Novel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
Donoso, José. A House in the Country. Trans. David Pritchard with Suzanne Jill Levine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1984.
Fallenberg, Evan. The Parting Gift: A Novel. New York: Other Press, 2018.
Flagg, Fannie. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel. New York: Ballantine Books, 2020.
Forster, E. M. A Passage to India. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc., 1952.
Forster, E. M. A Room with a View. New York: Signet Classics, 2009.
Forster, E. M. Howards End. Mineola: Dover Publications, Inc., 2018.
Forster, E. M. Maurice. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2005.
Gogol, Nikolai. Dead Souls. Trans. Constance Garnett. New York: Barnes and Noble Classics, 2005.
Gogol, Nikolai. Taras Bulba. Trans. Peter Constantine. New York: The Modern Library, 2004.
Isherwood, Christopher. A Single Man. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964.
Haddad, Saleem. Guapa: A Novel. New York: Other Press, 2016.
Hulme, Keri. The Bone People. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.
Kuzmin, Mikhail. “Wings”. Selected Prose and Poetry of Mikhail Kuzmin. Ed. and trans. Michael Green. New York: Ardis, 2013.
Lezama Lima, José. Paradiso. Trans. Gregory Rabassa. Normal: Dalkey Archive Press, 2000.
Mallon, Thomas. Fellow Travelers. New York: Vintage Books, 2008.
Malouf, David. An Imaginary Life: A Novel. New York: Vintage International, 1978.
McCullers, Carson. Reflections in a Golden Eye: A Novel. Boston: Mariner Books, 2000.
McCullers, Carson. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Boston: Mariner Books, 1967.
Mishima, Yukio. Confessions of a Mask. Trans. Meredith Weatherby. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1958.
Muir, Tamsyn. Gideon the Ninth. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2019.
Obejas, Achy. Days of Awe. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001.
Proulx, Annie. “Brokeback Mountain”. The New Yorker, October 6, 1997.
Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. New York: Vintage Books, 1991.
Routsong, Alma. Patience and Sarah. New York: Bleecker Street Press, 1969.
Sarduy, Severo. Cobra and Maitreya. Trans. Suzanne Jill Levine. Normal: Dalkey Archive Press, 1995.
Selvadurai, Shyam. Cinnamon Gardens: A Novel. New York: Hyperion, 1999.
Seth, Vikram. The Golden Gate. New York: Random House, Inc., 1986.
Stein, Gertrude. Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and Other Early Writings. New York: Liveright, 1971.
Vallejo, Fernando. The Abyss: A Novel. Trans. Yvette Siegert. New York: New Directions Publishing Company, 2024.
van Niekerk, Marlene. Agaat: A Novel. Trans. Michiel Heyns. Portland: Tin House, 2004.
Vidal, Gore. Myra Breckinridge and Myron. London: Abacus, 1986.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple: A Novel. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, 1982.
White, Patrick. The Eye of the Storm. New York: The Viking Press, 1973.
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Garden City: Dover Publications, 1993.
Woolf, Virginia. Between the Acts and The Years. London: Wordsworth Classics, 2012.
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. Garden City: Dover Publications, Inc., 2021.
Woolf, Virginia. Orlando. London: Wordsworth Classics, 2003.
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. London: Wordsworth Classics, 2000.
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. Garden City: Dover Publications, Inc., 2022.
Yourcenar, Marguerite. Coup de Grâce. Trans. Grace Frick. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.
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