Queer* Colgate
The queer space on campus that has been a “chamber of secrets” until it was revealed in October 2021.
The Rainbow Room
The definition of Q.T.P.O.C.
Queer (and) Trans Person/People of Color
This is the process of breaking the silence of one’s own sexuality.
Coming out
This character falls in love with an older man, but even peaches could not do a magic trick to prevent
inevitable – a farewell with no happy ending.
Elio
An identity encompassing people who do not identify as a man or woman or within the gender binary.
Non-binary
The resource center that was created due to a queer* student protest in 2015 where the Administrative Building was occupied until students demands surrounding sexual assault prevention and aid were meet.
HAVEN
A highly stylized, modern house dance originating in the late 1980s that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene of the 1960s.
Voguing
This celebrity Livin’ La Vida Loca comes out as gay in 2010 in the mist of rising suicidality among
LGBTIQA+ teenagers.
Ricky Martin
He is a teacher at Lakewood Elementary School. He teaches Athrur’s third and fourth grades. He marries
Patrick, the chocolatier.
Mr. Ratburn (Nigel Ratburn)
A general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male.
Intersex
The first ever big ____ show took place in the Hall of Presidents on October 29, 2021.
Drag
Born in the Bronx to a Venezuelan mother and Puerto Rican father, this legendary transgender activist is a veteran of the 1969 Stonewall uprising who fought hard against the exclusion of transgender people from the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act in New York and the co-founded S.T.A.R.
Sylvia Rivera
This comic character was revealed to be bisexual after 81 years of existence.
Robin
The singer of these lyrics:
Need a boy who can cuddle with me all night
Keep me warm, love me long, be my sunlight
Tell me lies, we can argue, we can fight
Yeah, we did it before, but we'll do it tonight
An afro, black boy with the gold teeth
With dark skin, looking at me like he know me
I wonder if he got the G or the B
Let me find out and see, coming over to me, yeah
Lil Nas X
Any set of singular third-person pronouns that are not officially recognized in the language they are used in, typically created with the intent of being a gender-neutral pronoun set.
Neopronouns
This annual ceremony (held in April) celebrates LGBTIQA+ graduates.
Lavender Graduation
In 1966, three years before the Stonewall Riot, many transwomen of color resisted police intimidation and brutality outside of a popular LGBTQ gathering spot and all-night diner.
The Compton Cafeteria Riots
The first trans actress to win a Golden Globe.
Michaela Jae Rodriguez
She is fierce and straightforward with everyone. She is not holding her tongue. But when it comes to a
school love of her life, she is vulnerable and tender “Like a Love Song, Baby”. She is a great singer,
although she does never get a leading part in her Glee club.
Santana Lopez
Created in 2014, the _______ is comprised of seven strips and four colors with black representing an absence of gender, gray representing those who have a partial gender, and green representing non-binary nature.
Agender Flag
The name of the Mission set up by the Office of LGBTQ+ Initiatives last Fall.
Queering Belonging
What Marsha P. Johnson’s middle initial, “P,” stands for.
‘pay it no mind’
His homosexuality has been silenced by the media as inconvenient but thrived in his literature, taking us
to the corners of “Giovanni’s Room.”
James Baldwin
This person experiences sexual attraction only when a strong emotional connection is present.
Demisexual
A gender identity in which one is genderfluid and one's gender changes based on where the person is.
Placegender