Historical Figures (1900s)
The American transgender activist from the mid-1900s who was a prominent figure during and after the Stonewall Riots.
Who is Marsha P. Johnson?
Famous Italian Renaissance painter and inventor, known for painting the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo DaVinci?
Rutgers club for queer students founded in 1969, originally called the Student Homophile League.
What is the Queer Student Alliance?
A slang phrase for a gay man, based on the famous actress from the mid-1900s and her open acceptance of her gay fans.
What is Friend of Dorothy?
A Children’s entertainer and dancer recently came out as gay on Twitter.
Who is Jojo Siwa?
The Mexican surrealist artist from the early 1900s who was famously bisexual and painted self-portraits of herself in gender-nonconforming clothing.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
The Ancient Greek lesbian poet who was nicknamed “The Tenth Muse” and “The Poetess.”
Who is Sappho?
The Rutger’s cultural center that houses all of Rutger’s queer organizations.
What is SJE (the Social Justice Education Center)?
The year gay marriage was legalized in all fifty states.
What is 2015?
A bisexual musician who’s known for her songs Nobody and Francis Forever (which was featured in Adventure Time).
Who is Mitski?
First openly gay elected official in the history of California.
Who is Harvey Milk?
The action taken by the Chinese Emperor Ai in order to avoid waking his sleeping boyfriend, Dong Xian.
What is cutting his sleeve?
This activist group staged highly-visible protests such as die-ins and kiss-ins to publicly protest the government’s lack of response to the AIDS epidemic.
What is Act Up?
This pride flag has official hex code colors due to its creation occurring in 1998.
What is the bisexual flag?
This actor who starred in “Umbrella Academy” recently came out as transgender and uses he/they pronouns.
Who is Elliot Page?
The British gay mathematician and computer scientist known for cracking the Enigma code which led to the defeat of the Nazis.
Who is Alan Turing?
The bisexual opera singer and duelist famous for, among other things, burning down a convent to escape with her girlfriend.
Who is Julie D’Aubigny?
Organization that promotes accurate and inclusive representation of LGBTQ people and issues in media.
What is GLAAD?
This current QSA eboard member is the longest serving member.
Who is Sophie?
This Youtuber known for making videos dissecting history, culture, identity, and philosophy recently came out as a transgender woman.
Who is PhilosophyTube/Abigail Thorn?
Founder in 1969 of the Student Homophile League, one of the first student queer organizations in the nation and the first at Rutgers.
Who is Lionel Cuffie?
After suffering a severe illness in 1776, they claimed to have been reanimated as a genderless evangelist.
Who is the Public Universal Friend?
This organization, founded by two of the earliest members of the gay liberation movement, was located in New York and is considered a template for future, similar organizations.
What is STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries)?
This color-coded method of identifying one’s sexual preferences was used by gay men to discretely communicate that they were looking for a partner.
What is the Handkerchief code?
The first lesbian TV anchor who hosts her own news show on MSNBC.
Who is Rachel Maddow?