POP Culture
Taylor Swift mentions "GLAAD" in this song.
What is "You Need to Calm Down"?
This color in the Pride Flag represents Life.
What is Red?
The nation’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization and advocacy group. It is the largest LGBTQ political lobbying organization within the United States.
What is the Human Rights Campaign?
When you are so impressed by something you are left speechless.
What is Gag/Gagged?
A series of violent demonstrations against police harassment and social discrimination after a police raid in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.
What is the Stonewall Riots?
Tom Hanks won an Oscar for playing a gay man in this film.
What is Philadelphia?
This color in the Pride Flag represents Healing.
What is Orange?
Non-governmental media monitoring organization and advocacy group against defamatory coverage of LGBT people and their portrayals in the media and entertainment industries.
What is GLAAD? (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)
Insulting someone with minimal effort. Sometimes referred to as "The library is open”.
What is Read/Reading?
The transgender rights activist who threw the first brick at the Stonewall riots.
Who is Marsha P. Johnson?
Will & Grace premiered in this year.
What is 1998?
The original Pride Flag design had these two additional color stripes.
What is Hot Pink and Turquoise?
Formed after a meeting of Parents, LGBTQ+ people, and allies, now the nation's largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQ+ people and those who love.
What is PFLAG? (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)
When someone insults you in an indirect manner, they are throwing ______.
What is Shade?
The first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States.
Who is Harvey Milk?
This show aired the first-ever lesbian wedding on American TV.
What is Friends?
Pink, Baby Blue, and White represent this group of LGBT people?
What is Trans people?
Organization focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth.
What is the Trevor Project?
When someone looks so fabulous it makes you nauseous.
What is Sickening?
This person designed the first Pride flag.
Who is Gilbert Baker?
This character on The Golden Girls had a gay brother.
Who is Blanche Devereaux?
While retaining the common six-stripe rainbow design as a base, this Pride Flag variation adds a chevron along the hoist that features black, brown, light blue, pink, and white stripes to bring those marginalized communities to the forefront (people of color, trans people, and those living with HIV/AIDS and those who have been lost).
What is the Progress Pride Flag?
Organization founded by a group of teachers in 1990, who knew that educators play key roles in creating affirming learning environments for LGBTQ+ youth.
What is GLSEN? (Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network)
A get-together/gathering of friends, possibly for the purpose of gossiping or throwing a party.
What is having a Kiki?
This activist who founded the Gay Liberation Front is often credited as the "Mother of Pride".
Who is Brenda Howard?