People
Iconic NYC activist, co-founder of STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) house, wearer of extravagant handmade fashions including a flower crown
Marsha P. Johnson
The Transgender District: A neighborhood named for trans people, the only one of its kind!
San Francisco
The first pride march
1970
A gender expression that fits societal definitions of masculinity, used by all sorts of queer people but particularly by lesbians
Butch
Legendary documentary film exploring the lives of Black and Latinx queer and trans people living and breathing the ballroom scene in NYC during the 1980's
Paris is Burning
First openly gay politician elected to office in the United States
Harvey Milk
Years-long protest against the transphobic policies of a large queer women's music festival called the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
Camp Trans
Gay marriage federally legalized in the United States
2014
The feeling of comfort/joy when thinking about or experiencing one’s true gender identity
Gender Euphoria
This famous American president was rumored to be gay because he slept in the same bed with another man and signed letters to him “forever yours"
Abraham Lincoln
One of the most important writers of the 20th century, author of 'Go Tell It on the Mountain,' 'Giovanni's Room,' 'Notes of a Native Son'
James Baldwin
The first recorded police raid against an LGBT venue in US history
Ariston Bathhouse in NYC
First media coverage of the AIDS pandemic
1981
The birth name of someone who has since changed their name, either legally or not
Dead Name
One of the earliest gay rights organizations, founded in 1950 in Los Angeles
The Mattachine Society
First famous American openly trans woman, World War II army veteran, singer, diva, star
Christine Jorgensen
Oscar Wilde, renowned poet and playwright, tried and convicted of sodomy and gross indecency (homosexuality) in 1895
England
Gene Compton's Cafeteria Riot: the first major instance of violent, riotous and organized collective queer resistance to the police
1966
Commonly used in LGBTQ+ spaces to refer to young, or young-looking, skinny effeminate gay men
Twink
Iconic lesbian couple from a Cartoon Network show made up of a vampire and a candy queen
Marceline and Princess Bubblegum
San Francisco FTM activist, of the first publicly gay trans men, lover of parakeets, heartthrob
Lou Sullivan
Hamilton Lodge, Harlem, NYC
Premiere of the first season of Rupaul's Drag Race
2008
A romantic identity where an individual does not experience sexual attraction until they form strong emotional bonds with another person
A key document in the history of contemporary Black feminism and queer theory, produced by an Boston-based Black feminist lesbian organization in the 1970s
Combahee River Collective Statement