FIGHTING FOR EQUITY
This initiative helps educators make schools safer and more inclusive for students of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
What is SOGI 123?
In 1969, this author published the book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which is an autobiography of her early life.
Who is Maya Angelou?
The Nagano 1998 Olympic was the first time this women’s sport was part of the Olympics Games.
What is hockey?
The flag made up of the colours pink, purple, and blue.
What is the Bisexual Pride Flag?
This adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s novel about affluent families in Asia was the first major Hollywood film with majority Asian cast since “The Joy Club” (1993).
What is Crazy Rich Asians?
In 1988, then‐Prime Minister Brian Mulroney formally apologized in the House of Commons for the interment of these people during the Second World War.
Who are Japanese Canadians?
This novel, which chronicles the lives of the March sisters, has been adapted to film 7 times, the latest in 2019.
What is Little Women?
What country took home most metals during the Paris 2024 Paralympics?
What is China (220)?
This Canadian Actor publicly came out as trans in December 2020 and actor was the first out trans man to appear on the cover of Time magazine.
Who is Elliot Page?
This movie from 2009 is based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire and starts Gabourey Sidibe, who portrays a young woman struggling against poverty and abuse.
What is Precious?
In 1916, this province became the first in Canada to allow women to vote in provincial elections.
What is Manitoba?
This American writer and rights activist was one of the first Black writers to include queer themes in fiction and focused on race in America which made him one of the most important voices of the 20th century.
Who is James Baldwin?
The Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024 slogan that highlighted the importance of inclusion within the Olympic Movement and underlined the organizers’ commitment to the fight against discrimination.
What is “Games wide open?”
He played Barney Stinson in the TV comedy HIMYIM. He is an actor and has appeared on Broadway.
Who is Neil Patrick Harris?
In 2017, it became the first film with an all-black cast and the first LGBT-themed film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
What is Moonlight?
The year that gender expression and gender identification were added as protected ground in the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedom.
What is 2017?
This Ojibwe Canadian author and journalist is best known for the novel “Indian Horse.”
Who is Richard Wagamese?
The space that was established during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games as a way to mark the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on 17 May and to celebrate LGBTQ+ athletes, entourage members, fans and allies.
What is the Pride House?
He acted in Star Trek and has been a huge advocate for LGBTQ rights.
Who is George Takei?
Daily Double!
This documentary follows Saturday Night Live alumni and close friends Will Ferrell and Harper Steele as they traverse the US by car following Steele’s announcement of her transition.
The year Metis rights were Constitutionalized.
What is 1982?
Mary Wollstonecraft wrote this book that is viewed as one of the foundational texts of modern feminism.
What is a Vindication of the Rights of Woman?
The percentage of female flag bearers at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
What is ~91%?
This person was the first trans woman to compete in the reality TV series America’s Next Top Model.
Who is Isis King?
This streaming show builds on a 1992 movie with Geena Davis about the creation of a women’s professional baseball league.
What is a League of Their Own?
The decade First Nations women were able to vote in Canadian federal elections without giving up their status and treaty rights.
What is 1960?
Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel about a spy for the Communist forces in the final days of the Vietnam War.
The Sympathizer
This athlete made history winning Canada’s first-ever Para canoe medal at the Paralympic Games in Paris.
Who is Brianna Hennessy?
Despite cracking Germany’s Enigma code and deciphering messages sent by the Nazis, this mathematician was arrested for and found guilty of homosexuality shortly after World War II.
Who is Alan Turing?
This 2020 movie starring Kiera Knightly portrays the Women’s Liberation Movement’s overnight fame thanks to their protest of the 1970 Miss World Competition.
What is MisBehaviour?