Historical Figures
The person who designed the original 8 stripe pride flag.
Who is Gilbert Baker?
Term for the bogus defense that Dan White used to justify his assassination of Harvey Milk that implicated his junk food diet.
What is the Twinkie Defense?
The name given to a romantic relationship between women (possibly but not necessarily lesbian) in the 1800s
What is a Boston Marriage?
This lesbian couple is Stronger than You, proving the love is the answer on the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe.
Garnet/Ruby and Sapphire from Steven Universe
The acronym "LGBT" was first used in this year.
When is 1988?
Event that marked the beginning of transgender activism in 1966 San Francisco, predating Stonewall by 3 years.
What is the Compton's Cafeteria Riot?
In this 2020 documentary, trans creators and artists discuss the role that Hollywood has had on the trans community.
What is Disclosure?
He’s a no nonsense captain that leads Brooklyn’s 99th precinct with a picture of his husband proudly on his desk.
Captain Raymond Holt from Brooklyn 99
Martin Luther King's right hand man and organizer of the 1963 March on Washington was kept in the background because he was gay.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
Name of the first pride march held in New York City in 1970.
What is Christopher Street Liberation Day?
A local civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.
Who is South Carolina Equality?
This couple gets married towards the end of the series, but originally met as high school cheerleaders known as the Cheerios on the hit 2009 show Glee.
Santana Lopez and Brittany S. Pierce from Glee
The "Guardian of the Lesbians in the Village" whose scuffle with police was, according to many eyewitnesses, the spark that ignited the Stonewall riots, spurring the crowd to action.
Who is Stormé DeLarverie?
What is 2011?
Activist Lindsay Amer started this YouTube channel to teach young children about gender and sexuality
What is Queer Kid Stuff?
We watch her heart-wrenching story and her romance with Rue unfold in the hit HBO series.
Jules Vaughn from Euphoria
The name of the trans woman who became an international celebrity in the 1950s simply for transitioning.
Who is Christine Jorgensen?
It is considered to be the first lesbian rights organization in the United States, formed in San Francisco, CA in 1955.
What were the Daughters of Bilitis?
The nation’s first exclusively college-based gay and gay-allied fraternity was founded at Arizona State University (ASU) on September 28, 2003.
Who is Sigma Phi Beta?
He took a while to find the label that fit right for him, but this character from Bojack Horseman eventually finds comfort in his asexual label
Todd Chavez from Bojack Horseman