Famous Faces
DEI Terms
Heritage Months & Holidays
Famous Places
100
The first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California
Who is Harvey Milk?
100
This term is used to describe people who feel their gender cannot be defined within the margins of gender binary. Instead, they understand their gender in a way that goes beyond simply identifying as either a man or woman.
What is Non-Binary
100
On June 19, 1865, enslaved African Americans were told they were free. A century and a half later, people across the U.S. continue to celebrate the day, which is now a federal holiday.
What is Juneteenth?
100
Which city flew the first gay pride flag?
What is San Francisco?
200
"How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human being in the human race" is quote by
Who is Marsha P Johnson?
200
The belief that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society, typically to the exclusion or detriment of other racial and ethnic groups, in particular Black and/or Jewish people.
What is white supremacy
200
This is the only heritage months to begin in one month and go into another
What is Latinx Heritage Month?
200
This place is famous for a series of spontaneous protests by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969.
What is Stonewall?
300
The pioneering Latinx that led the revolution for LGBTQ+ rights
Who is Sylvia Rivera?
300
Any expression of fear or hatred directed toward folks who are transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming.
Transphobia
300
Replacing Columbus Day this holiday honors the culture and history of the people living in the Americas both before and after Columbus' arrival
What is Indigenous People's Day?
300
This was the first state to celebrate Juneteenth
What is Texas?
400
"For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house" is a quote by
Who is Audre Lorde?
400
This term was was coined by Kimberle Crenshaw,“the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage"
What is Intersectionality
400
Celebrated on March 31st, this day is recognized to love and cherish the millions of transgender people in our communities.
What is Trans Visibility day?
400
Before Stonewall this riot sparked the gay rights movement
What is Compton Cafeteria riots?
500
The queen who reinvented the ballroom scene
Who is Crystal LaBeija
500
A two-part formation that both strips Blackness of value (dehumanizes), and systematically marginalizes Black people through overt and covert structural and systemic racism which predetermines the socioeconomic status of Blacks in this country and is held in place by policies, institutions, and ideologies.
What is Anti-Blackness
500
This former stolen kingdom was added to which Heritage Month
What is Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander heritage month?
500
This map represents the _______ district
What is the transgender district?