LGBTQ+ Figures of the Day!
Pride Month 2021
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Introduction
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What is Pride?
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What is Pride?
Modern day photo of The Stonewall Inn
The Stonewall Inn was made a historic landmark in 2016.
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AWESOME WORDS
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Vocabulary
Homosexual
Heterosexual
Cisgender
Pronouns
Gender Identity
Sexual Identity
Being attracted to people with the same gender as you
Being attracted to people of the opposite gender as you
Identifying as the gender that matches the sex somone was assigned at birth
How someone wants to be referred to
he/him, she/her, they/them
How someone identifies based on the gender that they identify with
How someone identifies based on who they are attracted to
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Vocabulary
Lesbian
Bi-Sexual
Queer
Gay
Transgender
Non-Binary
Women attracted to other women
Someone attracted to both men and women
Umbrella term for someone who is not herterosexual or cisgender
Men attracted to other men
Someone who identifies with a gender that is not the same as the sex they were assigned at birth.
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Does not identify with a gender
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Vocabulary
Pan-Sexual
Gender
Sex
When someone is attracted to another person regardless of sex or gender
Gender is a social construct often about how others perceive you, but we all can have one, multiple, or none that we identify as. This is based on how you feel inside.
Sex is assigned at birth based off of genetals
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LGBTQ+ Figures
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Day 1: Marsha P Johnson
Marsha P Johnson was a trans-woman and LGBTQ+ rights activist.
She was a leading figure in the Stonewall Uprising in 1969
Founding Member of the Gay Liberation Front
Co-founded STAR with Sylvia Rivera (picture bottom right). STAR was a activist group that worked to provide housing to homeless LGBTQ+ youth
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Day 2: Keith Haring
Keith Haring was an openly gay American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s.
Haring's popularity grew from his spontaneous drawings in New York City subways—chalk outlines of figures, dogs, and other stylized images on blank black advertising spaces. After gaining public recognition, he created colorful larger scale murals, many commissioned.
His art was used to advocate for safe sex & to decrease drug use.
In 1989, Haring established the Keith Haring Foundation to provide funding and imagery to AIDS organizations and children's programs. The foundation's stated goal is to keep his wishes and expand his legacy by providing grants and funding to non-profit organizations that educate disadvantaged youths and inform the public about HIV and AIDS.
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Keith Haring Mural in Harlem (128th & 2nd)
Double sided, located on a wall-ball court in Harlem. Meant to serve as a warning against crack and cocaine use which was rampant and killing many people in the 1980s in NYC.
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Day 3: Laverne Cox
Emmy-nominated actress, documentary film producer + prominent equal rights advocate.
Gained more proclaimed fame through her performance in Orange is the New Black.
�Cox has been noted as a trailblazer for the transgender community and has won numerous awards for her activist approach in spreading awareness. Her impact and prominence in the media has led to a growing conversation about transgender culture, specifically transgender women, and how being transgender intersects with one's race.
She is the first transgender person to be on the cover of Time magazine, be nominated for a Primetime Emmy, and have a wax work in Madame Tussauds, as well as the first transgender woman to win a Daytime Emmy as an executive producer.
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Day 4: Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin was an African American leader in social movements for civil rights for African Americans, nonviolence, and gay rights. He worked as an advisor to Martin Luther King Jr.
Helped organize the March on Washington and Alabama Bus Boycotts.
Organized a NYC boycott of schools to fight segregation
Even though he was a civil rights activist since the early 1960s, he did not engaged in any gay rights activism until the 80s when his partner urged him to follow that passion.
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Day 5: Janelle Monae
Janelle Monáe Robinson is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, actor, record producer, and model.
Known for her acting in Hidden Figures and Moonlight (among many other movies).
Monáe has received eight Grammy Award nominations. She won an MTV Video Music Award and the ASCAP Vanguard Award in 2010. Monáe was also honored with the Billboard Women in Music Rising Star Award in 2015 and the Trailblazer of the Year Award in 2018. In 2012, Monáe became a CoverGirl spokesperson.
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Monáe identifies as pansexual. She does not identify as non-binary but strongly supports the non-binary community and understands how they feel.
"I tweeted the #IAmNonbinary hashtag in support of Nonbinary Day and to bring more awareness to the community. I retweeted the Steven Universe meme ‘Are you a boy or a girl? I’m an experience’ because it resonated with me, especially as someone who has pushed boundaries of gender since the beginning of my career. I feel my feminine energy, my masculine energy, and energy I can't even explain."
Article about Janelle Monae’s gender identity. (For anyone who is interested to know more)
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Day 6: Alan Turing
Alan Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.
Famous for creating a machine that could crack the Enigma Code. The Enigma machine was a machine used by the Germans to send coded messages during WWII. Turing’s machine that cracked this code helped end WWII thus saving millions of lives.
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Day 7: Jonathan Van Ness
Jonathan Van Ness is gay and non-binary, they use the pronouns they/them, he/his, and she/her. They are an American hairdresser, podcast host, activist, actor, author, and television personality. They became largely famous after staring on Netflix’s Queer Eye
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Notice--in the book Peanut uses they/them
pronouns.
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Day 8: Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk was the first openly gay elected politician in California in 1977 and one of the first openly gay officials elected in the US.
He had 3 unsuccessful political runs before winning the election to become a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.��Harvey Milk was unfortunately assassinated in 1978.
In 2009, President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Milk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and California declared his birthday, May 22, Harvey Milk Day. On the 50th anniversary of Stonewall in 2019, Milk was an inaugural inductee onto the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor.
NYC has a transitional high school named after Harvey Milk that supports LGBTQ+ students who are behind in school due to struggles that made them fall behind.
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Day 9: Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow is an American television news program host and liberal political commentator. Maddow hosts The Rachel Maddow Show, a nightly television show on MSNBC, and serves as the cable network's special event co-anchor
Rachel Maddow is the first openly Lesbian news
Anchor to host a primetime news program.
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Day 10: Michael Sam
Michael Sam is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end. Sam played college football for the Missouri Tigers and was drafted by the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League in the seventh round of the 2014 NFL draft.
After completing his college football career, Sam publicly came out as gay. He became the first publicly gay player to be drafted in the NFL. The Rams cut him during the final preseason roster cutdowns. He then went on to be the first openly gay player in the Canadian Football League.
Michael worries that coming out before the NFL draft hurt his status in the draft.
He retired after 1 year on the CFL for mental health reasons, but hopes to potentially play or get involved in the NFL or CFL again in the future.
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This was filmed after he came out to his college football team in 2014.
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Day 11: Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde was an American writer, feminist, librarian, and civil rights activist. She was a self-described "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," who dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, capitalism, and homophobia.
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Audre Lorde’s last poetry reading before her death.
A reading of Lorde’s “There’s No Hierarchy in Oppression,” published in 1983
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Day 12: Ellen Degeneres
Ellen DeGeneres is an American comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer. She starred in the sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and has hosted her syndicated television talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, since 2003.
She played the voice of Dory in Finding Nemo and Finding Dory
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Day 13: Lil Nas X
Montero Lamar Hill known by his stage name Lil Nas X, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and media personality. He rose to prominence with the release of his country rap single "Old Town Road", which first achieved viral popularity in early 2019.
"Old Town Road" spent 19 weeks atop the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the longest-running number-one song since the chart debuted in 1958. He came out as gay while "Old Town Road" was atop the Hot 100, becoming the only artist to do so while having a number-one record.
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Day 14: Janet Mock
Janet Mock is a writer, director and executive producer for the FX drama series POSE and the Netflix limited series HOLLYWOOD and MONSTER.
She is the first trans person to sign a production deal with a major company (Netflix).
She is the New York Times bestselling author of two memoirs, Redefining Realness (2014) and Surpassing Certainty (2017) about her journey as a trans woman.
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Day 15: Josie Totah
Josie Totah is an American actress. She is known for her recurring role on the Disney Channel series Jessie and supporting role on the 2013 ABC comedy series Back in the Game. She also appeared in the show Champions and movie Moxie.
Totah is also an advocate for trans people.
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Day 16: James Baldwin
James Baldwin was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays, collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in the Western society of the United States during the mid twentieth-century.
He grew up in Harlem.
Baldwin's protagonists are often African American, and gay or bisexual men. These characters often face internal and external obstacles in their search for social- and self-acceptance.
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Day 17: Lena Waithe
Lena Waithe is an American screenwriter, producer and actress. She is the creator of the Showtime drama series The Chi (2018–present) and the BET comedy series Boomerang (2019–present) and Twenties (2020–present).
She also wrote and produced the crime film Queen & Slim (2020) and is the executive producer of the horror anthology series Them (2021–present).
Waithe gained recognition for her role in the Netflix comedy-drama series Master of None (2015–present) and became the first black woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 2017 for writing the show's "Thanksgiving" episode, which was loosely based on her personal experience of coming out to her mother. She has also appeared in Steven Spielberg's 2018 adventure film Ready Player One and the HBO series Westworld.
Waithe was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018
First woman of color to win an Emmy for comedy writing.
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Day 18: Sally Ride
Sally Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman in space. She was the third woman in space overall, after two USSR astronauts.
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Day 19: Elliot Fletcher
Elliot Fletcher is an actor, known for Shameless, The Fosters, Faking It, and Young Hollywood. Additionally, Elliot has worked in the theater with several productions and has performed his original music compositions for local audiences. He was selected to be included on the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 List.
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