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What is the rainbow flag?
This symbol was designed by Gilbert Baker and flew at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade celebration on June 25, 1978.
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What is homophobia?
This “dis/ease” is an irrational fear or hatred of those who are attracted to the same sex
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What is October 11th?
National Coming Out Day
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What is Stonewall?
This Greenwich Village bar was raided one too many times before the uprising in June of 1969.
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What are allies?
These non-LGBTQ people stand for the rights of LGBTQ individuals
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What is the pink triangle?
This geometric design marked gay men in Nazi Germany
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What is fag/faggot?
This “burning bundle of sticks” has been used as a derogatory term for gay men, though some have reclaimed the word
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What is "out"?
A national magazine which focuses on lesbian and gay news
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Who is Matthew Shepard?
The murder of this college student in 1998 refocused attention on LGBTQ oppression
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What is the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)?
President Clinton signed this law into effect in 1996, setting the federal definition of marriage as “a legal union between one man and one woman”
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What is the lambda?
This symbol identified gay and bisexual warriors in ancient Greece
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What is deisel/butch dyke?
This term was used to identify truck- driving, hard- working, masculine, or strong lesbian women
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What is Questioning?
This is the last Q in the LGBTQQ alphabet soup
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What is transgender?
This term describes individuals who do not identify with their birth- assigned sex and/or socially assigned gender
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What is androgynous?
A person who is not particularly masculine or feminine may be considered this
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What is Combined Mars/Venus?
This symbol is sometimes used to identify transgender (or transsexual) people
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What is sex and gender?
Whether by preference or orientation, Cass suggests we all grow into our own, in time
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What is sex and gender?
One is determined for most of us by XY chromosomes, the other is learned through socialization
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What is Massachusetts?
This state became the first U.S. state to legalize marriage equality for LGBTQ individuals in 2004
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Who is Friends of Dorothy?
Someplace “over the rainbow” was a covert reference for these folks in the 1940’s and 1950’s and is sometimes still used today
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What is 2012 and what is Maryland, Maine, Washington.
In what year, these were the first three states to legalize same-sex.
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