Activism
This lesbian got her start with the Black Panther Party and is still an activist today. Her two most famous works are Women Race and Class and the more recent Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Who is Angela Davis?
This musician has won two Grammys, two BET Hip Hop Awards, and one Country Music Association Award, making him the only gay man ever nominated for a CMA award and the only queer person to ever win one.
Who is Lil Nas X?
This poet was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance, his most famous poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" recounts the history of black culture and was written while the poet was still a teenager.
Langston Hughes
This gay man was instrumental in organizing the March on Washington, he was also a freedom rider.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
This Musician publicly came out as nonbinary in 2022, but had been playing with gender and sexuality since their debut in 2007 with Metropolis: The Chase Suite.
Who is Janelle Monae
This author is best known for her work Sister Outsider a collection of essays that deal with race, sexuality, gender, and class.
Who is Audre Lorde?
This trans woman served as executive director of the Transgender Gender Intersex Variant Justice Project which aims to help trans folks who are targeted by the prison industrial complex.
Who is Miss Major Griffin-Gracey
This musician is sometimes credited with giving birth to rock and roll with his song "Tutti Frutti." Openly gay most of his career this singer was "born again" and eventually denounced homosexuality.
Who is Little Richard?
This author wrote the queer classic Giovani's Room, as well as essays and poems discussing the alienation he felt at the intersection of being black and queer.
Who was James Baldwin?
This Butch Lesbian's Scuffle with the police is much more likely the actual cause of the Stone Wall Riots. She is sometimes known as the "Rosa Parks of the gay community"
Who is Storme DeLarverie?
With his hit record Step II, this flamboyant and androgynous disco star had hit singles like "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" and "Dance (Disco Heat)"
Who is Sylvester?
This lesbian collective introduced the idea of interlocking systems of oppression and pioneered black feminism
Who was the Combahee River Collective
It was after this 1970s gathering that Huey Newton of the Black Panther Party gave formal support to the Queer Liberation Movement
What is the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention?
Before the Village People had even begun recording, this openly gay musician recorded the gay disco anthem "I was Born This Way" in 1977
Who is Carl Bean
This poet, and figure of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote Home to Harlem in 1928, one of the most popular novels written by a black person at the time. He was also a member of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Who is Claude McKay