Display to highlight 44 significant LGBTQA+ people both historical and alive today. People in the entertainment industry, art, activism, science, and politics.
Print to display for Pride Month 2022 or to create a booklet to help educate students about the many significant people in history who belonged to the LGBT community.
(PDF A4 pages in LANDSCAPE with border). All images were free from copyright when sourced.
Includes 44 people of the world with images and short descriptions of each.
Alan Turing - mathematician and code breaker
Xavier Bettel - Prime Minister of Luxembourg
Laverne Cox - Actress and advocate
Harvey Milk - Politician
Rev. Troy Perry - Founder of MCC Church
Lili Elbe - Danish artist
Keith Haring - Pop artist
Lily and Lana Wachowski - directors
Marsha P. Johnson - Activist
Oscar Wilde - poet and playwright
Anne Lister - Diarist
Alexander the Great - Military leader, King
Sappho - Archaic Greek Poet
Johanna Sigurdardottir - Prime Minister of Iceland
Barbara Gittings - Activist
Josephine Baker - Actress, singer
Freddie Mercury - singer for Queen
Zanele Muholi - Artist
Ana Brnabic - Prime Minister of Serbia
Audre Lorde - Writer, civil rights activist
Elton John - Singer, pianist
Emily Dickinson - Poet
Billie Holiday - Jazz vocalist
Billie Jean King - Tennis player
Hannah Gadsby - Comedian
RuPaul - TV personality
Gladys Bently - blues singer
George Michael - singer
Alan L. Hart - Doctor
Lil Nas X - Rapper
Andy Warhol - Pop Artist
Sylvia Rivera - activist
We’Wha - Native American Ihamana
Edie Windsor - Activist
Mark Ashton - britsh activist
Christine Jorgensen - transgender activist
Leo Varadkar - Prime Minister of Ireland
Elliot Page - transgender actor
Sally Ride - astronaut
James Baldwin - writer
Virginia Woolf - writer
Christina, Queen of Sweden
King Ludwig II of Bavaria
Jean-Michel Basquiat - Neo-expressionism artist
Includes 20 countries (with a focus on the developed world) with information including; population, guns per citizen, the process to get a gun license (if relevant), and important facts.
Sources are included on each fact card. These could be used for individual or paired research activities or an extended lesson on comparing and contrasting gun laws and ownership in different parts of the world.
Canada
Iceland
Singapore
Australia
U.S.A
South Africa
Germany
New Zealand
Mexico
China
U.K
Japan
Switzerland
Sweden
Ireland
Uruguay
India
the United Arab Emirates
Serbia
Chile
(PDF A4 pages in LANDSCAPE with TWO fact cards on each).
LGBTQ+ Words, definitions and phrases.
A display to help viewers understand the many words and phrases used in and by the LGBTQ+ community.
Includes an introduction page and 56 definitions (2 on each A4 PDF page). Cut them out, pass them around or use them for your board or word wall display.
This resource could be used for several age groups though please note that some definitions may include more adult concepts, and should be used with consideration.
If you find any errors or have a word/phrase suggestion, please let me know!
Looking for other LGBTQ+ resources? Check out the following:
LGBTQ+ Figures in History and Today (Display/Fact files cards)
This resources includes the following 56 definitions:
lesbian, 2. gay, 3. bisexual/bi, 4. transgender/trans, 5. queer, 6. aromantic/Arvo, 7. Pansexual/Pan, 8. Demisexual, 9. Asexual/Ace, 10. Grey-sexual, 11. Ally/Advocate, 12. homophobia, 13. Cisgender/Cis, 14. Intersex, 15. Orientation, 16. Passing, 17. Pronoun, 18. Questioning, 19. Gender, 20. Social construct, 21. Hetrosexual/Straight, 22. Homosexual, 23. Non-binary, 24. Androgyny, 25. Outed, 26. binding, 27. transman, 28. transwoman, 29. transsexual, 30. Transitioning, 31. Dead name, 32. Gender expression, 33. Gender Fluid, 34. Genderqueer, 35. Hetronormativity, 36. Transphobia, 37. Misgendering, 38. QTPOC, 39. Butch, 40. Sex assigned at birth, 41. Biphobia 42. Gender binary, 43. Gender dysphoria, 44. Fem/Femme, 45. LGBTQ+, 46. Coming out, 47. FTM & MTF, 48. gender nonconforming, 49. In the closet, 50. Twink, 51. Two Spirit, 52. Tucking, 53. Stonewall, 54. Bear, 55. Top Surgery, 56. Polyamory