How many did you get correct?
Check out the answers below and click on the resource links to explore more about PRIDE facts. Remember: One thing to do during Pride Month and beyond that will make you an all-around better ally or community member is to educate yourself on the history of Pride.
- What do the colours in the chevron (triangle) of the PRIDE progress flag symbolize?
A. To recognize Black and racialized members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community
B. To recognize people who have died of HIV/AIDS, and those living with HIV/AIDS and the stigma of the disease
C. The pink, blue and white colors represent trans and non binary persons
D. CORRECT ANSWER: All of the above
2. The Pride movement began in 1969 at which bar in NYC -considered a safe haven by many in the 2SLGBTQ+ community?
A. Stone Bar
B. CORRECT ANSWER: Stonewall Inn
C. Fox & Fiddle
D. Gibraltar
3. What year did Canada formally ban conversion therapy, the widely discredited practice aimed at changing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity?
A. 1995
B. CORRECT ANSWER: 2022
C. 1975
D. 1948
4. Located in Toronto at 499 Church St, it is the first queer-focused Canadian bookstore, and the oldest queer bookstore worldwide.
A. Queen Video
B. CORRECT ANSWER: Glad Day
C. The Palace
D. Honest Ed's
5. Two-spirit is the term used by Indigenous people to describe from a cultural perspective people who identify within the 2SLGBTQ+ community? Yes or No?
CORRECT ANSWER: YES
NO
6. If you are not a member of the 2SLGBTQ+ community, you can be an ally...
A. By being aware of your own implicit biases
B. By doing research on your own to learn more about the 2SLGBTQIA+ Community
C. By doing internal work on yourself
D. By doing external work on systems to dismantle oppressions
E. Amplifying the voices of the community, listening to and accepting criticism with grace (even if it's uncomfortable)
F. CORRECT ANSWER: All of the above
7. What does the yellow field with purple circle mean on the new progress flag?
A. Global Inclusion
B. Trans Inclusion
C. Queer Inclusion
D. CORRECT ANSWER: Intersex Inclusion
8. How many 2SLGBTQ+ athletes participated in the Tokyo Summer Olympics in 2021?
A. 12
B. 8
C. 22
D. CORRECT ANSWER: 186
