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What is one group/place on campus dedicated to LGBTQIA?
Prism, Transcend, Pride Peers, GLC, etc...
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What are the colors of the pride flag? Bonus points if you know some of the history behind it.
rainbow!
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What is heterosexism?
The belief that heterosexuality is the normal and preferred sexual orientation and all others
are deviant, and the assumption that everyone you meet is straight or should be. |
What is the name of the actor from The Umbrella Academy that came out as trans in 2014? (Also in Juno, X-men, Inception...)
Elliot Page
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Who is Marsha P Johnson?
reportedly one of the central figures in the Stonewall uprising, outspoken transgender rights activist, and AIDS activist (importance of intersectionality within the queer community), Along with fellow trans activist Sylvia Rivera (Latinx trans woman), Johnson helped form Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries (STAR)
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What is one difficulty a transgender person may face on this campus?
gendered bathrooms, gendered dorms, pronoun misuse, etc...
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What is Stonewall?
The Stonewall Riots ignited after a police raid took place at the Stonewall Inn. The tension from ongoing harassment galvanized the LGBTQ community to riot for six days. The protest through the streets of New York City is memorialized as the annual Gay Pride parades that are now celebrated around the world.
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What is the difference between gender and sex?
one is a social construct, the other is biological
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What is the show that aired the first ever lesbian wedding on American TV?
Friends
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Who is Harvey Milk?
first openly gay elected official in the United States, was assassinated in 1978
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What is the name of the LGBTQIA/questioning retreat on campus
Spectrum
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What is the significance of the LGBT vs GLBT?
in the late 90s it changes from GLBT to LGBT (and has since become LGBTQIA+) due to the role of women in the AIDS epidemic.
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What is FTM or MTF?
female to male
male to female |
What were the colors of the original pride flag?
Pink, Indigo, Turquoise
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Who is Alan Turing?
broke the Enigma code, convicted for homosexuality
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What is GLC?
the queer club on campus
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In how many countries is being LGBTQIA+ illegal? In how many countries is same-sex activity punishable by death? (you only have to answer one)
68; 11
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What is asexuality?
Not experiencing sexual attraction
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What 2018 film was the first major Hollywood movie to focus on a gay teen romance?
Love, Simon
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Who is Andrea Jenkins
Jenkins made history in November 2017 by becoming the first openly transgender Black woman elected to public office in the U.S., according to LGBTQ advocacy groups and researchers. Jenkins, a Democrat, was one of two openly trans people to win a seat on the Minneapolis City Council in 2017. She is also a published poet and an oral historian at the University of Minnesota. Jenkins made history again in January 2022, when she was elected as the first transgender official in the U.S. to lead a city council.
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How would you intervene if you saw a biased incident happening on campus?
we will accept a variety of answers... this depends strongly on the situation - regardless you can always come report it to us
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In what year was same sex marriage legalized in the US?
June 26, 2015
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What is deadnaming and why shouldn't you do it?
referring to a trans person by the name they used before they came out as trans (not everyone changes their name) - but it is never appropriate to use someone's deadname, hence the term
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What is the explanation David gave for pansexuality in Schitt's Creek?
wine
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Who is Cecilia Chung?
is a civil rights leader and activist for LGBT rights, HIV/AIDS awareness, health advocacy, and social justice. She is a trans woman, and her life story was one of four main storylines in the 2017 ABC miniseries When We Rise about LGBT rights in the 1970s and 1980s. Cecilia was appointed by President Barack Obama to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.
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