This openly gay and married man is currently the United States Secretary of Transportation
Pete Buttigieg
This is an umbrella term that can include transwomen, transmen, nonbinary folx, gender nonconforming folx, folx of demi-genders, agender folx and more
Transgender
It is speculated that this front man of the musical group Queen was bisexual
Freddie Mercury
Roughly paraphrased, 'the shot glass heard round the world' refers to this paramount event in US queer history
The Stonewall Riots
"Silence = Death" is the motto for this AIDS organizing group founded in the late 1980s
ACT UP
This 1990 film documents ballroom culture in New York and follows its queer participants, namely Black and Latinx POC
Paris is Burning
This musician passed away this past January at age 34. She was from Glasgow, Scotland and was known for her electronic music. She was also a transwoman
SOPHIE
This late iconoclastic drag artist is known for super-exaggerated eyebrow arches and performing in John Waters films
Divine
This scholar is known for coining the term "gender performativity" in their book Gender Trouble
Judith Butler
This popular movie franchise is deemed a trans allegory by the directors
The Matrix
This term is the complement to "asexual"
Allosexual
This activist and scholar is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at UC Santa Cruz's History of Consciousness department. She is known for her work on race and feminism and is the author of an anthology of her essays and speeches called Freedom is a Constant Struggle. She is also a lesbian
Angela Davis
This term refers to what Julia Serano describes as "the marginalization of trans female/feminine spectrum people"
Transmisogyny
The late Queer of Color scholar, José Esteban Muñoz, writes about queer futurism and how queerness is not yet here in this book
Cruising Utopia
Anthropologist Kath Weston refers to the influx of queerfolx moving to major metropolitan areas in the US in the late 70s and early 80s as this event
The Great Gay Migration
Sylvia Rivera, who took the stage at the 1973 Gay Pride Rally NYC, was initially boo'd before giving a speech and then leading this chant with the resounding crowd
G-A-Y-P-O-W-E-R
Jack Halberstam in his book, In a Queer Time and Place, refers to this term as "reveal[ing] the conflation of 'urban' and 'visible' in many normalizing narratives of gay/lesbian subjectivities. Such narratives tell of closeted subjects who 'come out' into an urban setting, which in turn, supposedly allows for the full expression of the sexual self in relation to a community of other gays/lesbians/queers."
Metronormativity
This activist and writer discusses the social construction of the gender binary through colonization, wrote the book Beyond the Gender Binary and discusses "degendering" fashion
Alok Vaid-Menon
This Indigenous American poet and screenwriter is known for his books IRL, Nature Poem, Junk, Feed and co-hosting the podcasts "Food 4 Thot" and "Scream, Queen!"
Tommy "Teebs" Pico
This group released a statement regarding their platform as black feminists and lesbians, saying "As Black women we see Black feminism as the logical political movement to combat the manifold and simultaneous oppressions that all women of color face."
The Combahee River Collective