York U
TBLGAY
Queer History
Flags
100
York U's mascot animal, and logo.
What is a lion?
100
The un-aconymed version of TBLGAY.
What is trans, bisexual, lesbian, gay, and asexual @ York?
100
Considered the most 'major' queer history event, where activists clashed with NYC police after their bar was raided in 1969.
What is Stonewall/the Stonewall uprising/ the Stonewall riots?
100
The name of this flag, created by Monica Helms in 1999.
What is the trans(gender) flag?
200
The name of the online portal students use to access their classes? Once called "Moodle".
What is e-class?
200
TBLGAY's room number and location.
Where is 449A, First Student Center?
200
During the AIDS crisis, this group of people were the first to come to the aid of queer people affected by the virus (which mostly included gay men and trans women) in a show of true community solidarity.
Who are lesbians?
Fun fact: this is why the L comes first in LGBTQA+!
200
The name of this flag, recently created by Emily Gwen and sometimes called the 'sunset [BLANK]' flag.
What is the lesbian flag?
300
The name of the York service that can help you plan your courses, enroll, and make sure you're up to date on your credits.
What is academic advising?
300
The people at TBLGAY who volunteer to help run events and vote on programming, and are then given unlimited room access and volunteer hours.
What is the collective/collective team?
300
A heterosexual marriage between a queer man and a queer woman (historically, a lesbian and a gay man), also called a 'marriage of convenience', that allowed both people to escape suspicion of homosexuality.
What is a 'lavender marriage'?
Fun fact: Hollywood execs pushed famous gay stars to have lavender marriages, in order to hide their identities from curious public.
300
The name of this flag, created after the third annual intertribal Native American/First Nations gay and lesbian conference, in 1990.
What is the two-spirit flag?
400
One of five YFS funded groups on campus that support marginalized students. There is one for queer students (TBLGAY), disabled students, Black students, South Asian students, and Indigenous students.
What is a CSG/Community Service Group?
400
The paid members of TBLGAY who are in charge of scheduling and planning events, managing the budget, and maintaining external relations with other organizations and schools.
What is the internal/ internal team?
400
A historical fiction novel by Leslie Feinburg about the lives of butch lesbians in the 1970s, which was made free for all after the author's death, and explores the fluidity of historic gender and sexuality.
What is "Stone Butch Blues"?
400
The name of this flag, created by Danial Quasar to visibly include trans people and POC.
What is the progress flag?
500
Five of the nine colleges at York Uni.
What are Bethune, Calumet, Founders, Glendon, LcLaughlin, New, Stong, Vanier, or Winters?
500
The guidelines of TBLGAY, which can be accessed by anyone at any time, either in the room or in the Discord.
What is the constitution?
500
The raiding of four Toronto gay bathhouses in 1981, which resulted in the arrests of 300 queer men, makred annually by Toronto Pride month. Sometimes considered the 'Canadian Stonewall'.
What is 'Operation Soap', or 'The Bathouse Raids'?
500
The designer of the original pride flag, first designed in 1978.
Who is Gilbert Baker?