This award-winning TV series by Ryan Murphy focuses on New York’s ball culture and transgender communities in the 1980s and ’90s.
What is Pose?
What year was Gay marriage legalized in Canada?
July 20, 2005
A Black political activist, academic, and author who also identifies as a lesbian. Her work continues to focus on the intersections of race, gender, and economic justice. She first emerged as a leader within the Black Panther Party in the 1960s, and continues to work today as an intellectual on the frontlines, and at the intersections of racial, gender, and class justice movements.
Who is Angela Davis?
What does LGBTQ stand for?
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer
".... I want the world to know, gotta let it show"
What is "I'm Coming Out"- Diana Ross?
This 17 season reality TV show pits divas against each other in a series of mini and maxi challenges and has hosted several celebrity judges on their panel.
What is RuPaul's Drag Race?
This riot which eventually led to the creation of Gay Pride as we know it today, took place in New York City in 1969 and was led by trans activist and icon, Miss Marsha P Johnson.
What is the Stonewall Riots?
Initially a librarian for New York Public Schools in the 1960s, she eventually carved her way into the academic world as a radical Black, queer woman, publishing her canonical essay, “The Master’s Tools Will Not Dismantle the Master’s House.” In the 1980s, along with Barbara Smith, she founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, dedicated to further the writing of Black feminists. She is most well known for her speech at the 1979 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
Who is Audre Lorde?
What does Ace mean?
‘Ace’ is an umbrella term used specifically to describe a lack of, varying, or occasional experiences of sexual attraction. This encompasses asexual people as well as those who identify as demisexual, grey ace, and other ace-spec identities.
"Just about half-past ten (Half-past ten)
For the first time in history
It's gonna start_____ "
It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls
This coming of age story deals with themes of homosexuality and masculinity, and won an Oscar (after a brief snafu with the announcement) for best picture in 2016.
What is Moonlight?
What year was Pride Week established as a national event in Canada?
1973
Who became the first openly gay conservative member of Parliament?
Svend Robinson (born March 4, 1952).
He was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2004, representing suburban Vancouver-area constituencies in the city of Burnaby for the New Democratic Party (NDP). He was the first member of Parliament in Canadian history to come out as gay while in office.
What does the Q stand for in LBGTQ+?
Queer/or questioning
"Let your body groove to the music (groove to the music)
Hey, hey, hey
Come on_____ "
Vogue - Madonna
This Broadway musical- turned- feature film takes place in the early 1990s and grapples with the effects of the AIDs epidemic on the New York LGBTQ community.
What is Rent?
True or false, homosexuality was once considered a mental health disorder.
True, the DSM took out the classification in the 70s.
In the early 1930s, she headlined at Harlem's Ubangi Club, where she was backed up by a chorus line of drag queens. She dressed in men's clothes (including a signature tuxedo and top hat), played piano, and sang her own raunchy lyrics to popular tunes of the day in a deep, growling voice while flirting with women in the audience.
Who is Gladys Bentley?
What does GLAAD stand for?
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
"I've got my life to live
And all my love to give and___"
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
This Broadway Musical and Film that involves a tribe of mammals, called the Jellicles, must decide yearly who will ascend to Heaviside layer and come back to a new life
What is Cats?
What were the original colors on the first Pride Flag? How many colors were there?
Hot Pink, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Turquoise, Indigo and Violet
In 1956, this author wrote "Giovanni's Room" about a relationship between two men in Paris. The novel deals with themes of internalized homophobia, homosexuality, and masculinity. Among his other works are: "If Beale Street Could Talk", "Go Tell it on the Mountain", and "The Fire Next Time."
Who is James Baldwin?
What are identities / sexualities that could fall into the "plus" category in LGBTQ+?
Pansexual, Asexual, Intersex, Demisexual, Nonbinary, Genderfluid, Agender, Bigender, etc...
Who is Ethel Waters?