Educational Resources
A national organization working to promote gendered inclusivity in schools that was founded in 1990.
What is GLSEN?
A series of riots in Greenwich Village, New York.
What are the Stonewall Riots?
A gender identity characterized by not falling exclusively into "male" or "female" categories.
What is non-binary?
A sexuality that is described by not experiencing sexual attraction towards others.
What is asexual?
The first openly gay elected official in California who passed the U.S.'s first gay rights ordinance.
Who is Harvey Milk?
A non-profit organization that provides 24/7 assistance to LGBTQ+ youth as a means of suicide prevention.
What is The Trevor Project?
Founded in 1955 as the first lesbian rights group in the U.S.
What is the Daughters of Bilitis?
A gender identity that changes over time in which an individual's pronouns may vary and they can identify as any gender or a combination of genders.
What is genderfluid?
A sexuality that represents sexual attraction to people of all sexes and gender identities, with preference being a factor.
What is omnisexual?
The first LGBTQ+ woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
Who is Barbara Jordan?
A center that provides educational and health resources located in Boston, Massachusetts.
What is the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center?
A riot in a restaurant that was commonly raided by police officers who arrested drag queens and trans women.
What is the Compton's Cafeteria Riot?
A gender identity used for people whose genders fall outside of cisgender norms.
What is genderqueer?
A sexuality that in which the individual's sexual orientation is fluid and/or changes over time.
What is abrosexual?
The first openly gay person elected to statewide office in the U.S.
Who is Elaine Noble?
A Canadian project that aids teachers in educating themselves on the queer community to support their students and promote inclusivity in their content.
What is RISE: Queering Teacher Education?
An activist group founded in 1950 to protect the rights of gay men in L.A.
What is the Mattachine Society?
A gender identity that is characterized by the absence of a gender or the lack of identification with any gender.
What is agender?
A term that refers to a woman, woman-aligned person, or a non-binary person of any sexual orientation who is attracted to women.
What is sapphic?
The first openly LGBTQ member of the U.S Congress.
Who is Barney Frank?
A non-profit organization that began as a podcast and mentors queer educators around the world.
What is Teaching While Queer?
An uprising in which queer people threw donuts at police who harassed them in a donut shop.
A gender identity in which a person has or experiences 2 genders that could include male, female, or nonbinary.
What is bigender?
A sexual attraction to various, but not necessarily all genders, generally without a preference.
What is polysexual?
The first openly gay person elected to public office in the U.S.
Who is Kathy Kozachenko?