To celebrate #SpiritDay and support LGBTQ youth, streaming service Hulu is highlighting a special selection of movies and TV series featuring LGBTQ characters. You can go to Hulu and check out the variety of LGBTQ-inclusive content available to stream right now! Don’t forget to take the pledge to support LGBTQ youth and stand against bullying by going purple TOMORROW at glaad.org/spiritday!

Hulu’s #SpiritDay collection includes a wide variety of film and television, including the documentaries Kiki and L Word: Mississippi, the queer romantic films Reaching for the Moon, and Mosquita y Mari, and the all-ages animated shorts Rosaline and The Bravest Knight Who Ever Lived. If you’ve got a bit more time to spare, the series Difficult People, Please Like Me, and Banana, and the classic Will & Grace are all available to stream too. Most recent GLAAD Media Award-recipient Shadowhunters is featured as well, as are the groundbreaking teen shows My So-Called Life and Glee. The anime series Sailor Moon and reality show Big Freedia Bounces Back round out this collection.

There’s something here for everyone, and this is a great opportunity to get acquainted or re-acquainted with these highlights of LGBTQ film and television!

About Spirit Day

Each year, millions go purple for GLAAD’s Spirit Day to support LGBTQ youth in a united stand against bullying. Started in 2010 by high school student Brittany McMillan in response to numerous young LGBTQ lives lost to suicide, Spirit Day now draws the participation of celebrities, schools, faith institutions, national landmarks, corporations, media outlets, sports leagues, and advocates around the world, all joining together to stand against bullying and support LGBTQ youth.

As anti-LGBTQ policies, hate crimes, and harassment are on the rise, it is now especially important to let all marginalized youth know they are supported.

This year, Spirit Day is on October 19, 2017. Take the Spirit Day pledge to show LGBTQ youth you’ve got their backs at glaad.org/spiritday. Follow @GLAAD on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr to keep up to date with #SpiritDay news. 

On the week of Spirit Day, violent anti-LGBTQ hate flyers posted around Cleveland State University encouraged LGBTQ students to harm themselves

This past Monday violent anti-LGBTQ fliers encouraging LGBTQ students to commit suicide were hung up on the main campus of Cleveland State University on the same day they were slated to open an LGBTQ resource center for students.

According to ABC News5 in Cleveland, the flier depicts an illustration of a man with a rope tied around his neck. It also gives statistics of what it claims are suicide rates among the LGBTQ community. It also says in bold letters, “Follow your fellow *expletive*.”

The university argued that this was a matter for free speech saying they are “committed to upholding the First Amendment, even with regard to controversial issues where opinion is divided.”  A CSU spokesperson event went as far as to say they fliers “would still be up if the person had followed the proper procedure to post a notice.”

“Bullying and violent hate speech intended to harm, intimidate and silence LGBTQ people has no place in a school setting,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD. “CSU officials need to strongly condemn this flier and immediately take steps to ensure LGBTQ students are safe on campus. The LGBTQ community faces attacks from their peers, family members, bosses, public officials, all the way up to the White House. It has never been more important to rise up and support LGBTQ youth tomorrow on Spirit Day and throughout the year.” 

Tweets by GLAAD on October 18, 2017

Tomorrow, October 19, is Spirit Day, an international call for people to speak out against the LGBTQ bullying and show their support for LGBTQ youth by taking wearing purple or going purple on social media.

Celebrities, organizations and television shows elevating this important issue include Celine Dion, Halsey, Jimmy Kimmel, Britney Spears, Wanda Sykes, Christina Aguilera, PFLAG, Do Something, National Center for Trans Equality, Will and Grace, Entertainment Tonight, The View, and Access Hollywood.