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What is the bi pride flag?
Pink, purple, and blue horizontal stripes
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Who is Pete Buttigieg?
First openly LGBTQ person in a Senate-confirmed cabinet position
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What is Act Up?
Organization dedicated to fighting AIDS whose motto is Silence=Death
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What is Schitt's Creek?
This TV show famously described pansexuality using types of wine.
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Who is Oscar Wilde?
This Irish playwright was put on trial for his sexuality
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What is the trans flag?
Horizontal stripes: light blue, light pink, white, light pink, light blue
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What is Obergefell v. Hodges?
This Supreme Court case legalized same sex marriage nationwide
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Who is Marsha P. Johnson?
This activist, who played a key role in Stonewall, famously said the "P" stands for "pay it no mind"
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What is Pose?
TV show featuring the largest transgender cast in history
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Who is Lil Nas X?
The first openly gay man to win a Country Music Award
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What is Philadelphia?
This city added a black and brown stripe to the rainbow flag
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What is the Lavender Scare?
Period in the 1950s when President Eisenhower made it illegal for government employees to be gay or lesbian.
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What is 1969?
The Stonewall Riots took place in June of what year?
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What is But I'm a Cheerleader?
Natasha Lyonne played a lesbian forced to go to a conversion therapy camp in this movie
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Who is Janelle Monae?
This musician recently published a book called the Memory Librarian
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Who is Gilbert Baker?
Creator of the rainbow pride flag
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What is Casa Ruby?
This nonprofit provides shelter and services for LGBTQ people experiencing homelessness in DC
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Who is Harvey Milk?
The first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States
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What is Heartstopper?
This recent Netflix hit is based on a YA graphic novel series by Alice Oseman
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Who is Keith Haring?
This artist's playful pop art drew attention to the HIV/AIDS crisis
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What is the Progress flag?
This newer pride flag has a triangle with the trans flags and black and brown stripes along with rainbow stripes
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Who is Robert Mapplethorpe?
This artist's exhibit was controversially cancelled by DC's Corcoran Gallery in 1989
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Who is Sylvia Rivera?
This Latina activist co-founded STAR based on her own experience as a homeless LGBTQ youth
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What is Fantastic Woman?
This movie, which won best foreign-language film, was the first Oscar winner to have a trans storyline portrayed by an openly trans actor
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What is Fun Home?
Ring of Keys is a song from this musical based on a comic with the same name
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