Activating Pride with Jazz Jennings

How do youth celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride? In this episode, special guest Jazz Jennings, American YouTube personality, spokesmodel, television personality, and LGBT rights activist, talks about the importance of Queer Pride and visibility, while playing One-Minute Trivia with Trudy and Claire. Listeners will also get a chance to hear from Paras, a student activist from Iowa and how the IFQT crew celebrates their queerness.

CONTENT AND CONTENT WARNINGS:

00:00:05: Trudy: What I hope people get from this podcast

00:00:56: Theme Song

01:01:03: Welcome from Lily and Trudy

00:02:10: Lily and Trudy talk trivia and working with Jazz Jennings

00:05:57 One-Minute Trivia Part 1: Queer Celebration with Jazz and Claire

00:13:57: Queer Youth Animated: Paras’ Story

00:18:39: One-Minute Trivia Part 2: Queer Celebration with Jazz and Claire

00:23:27: How we celebrate queerness

00:26:58: How can we celebrate pride safely?

00:28:23: Coming up next

00:28:51: Outro/Credits

RESOURCES:

Read about the full history of Pride and view footage the first Pride March in NYC, Christopher Street Liberation Day 1970. From the Lilli Vincenz Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress:

https://www.loc.gov/ghe/cascade/index.html?appid=90dcc35abb714a24914c68c9654adb67

Learn more about Gilbert Baker and the original pride flag:

https://gilbertbaker.com/

Information about Iowa’s Anti-Trans Legislation:

https://oneiowaaction.org/lgbtqbills2024/

Check out Harvey Milk’s Gay Freedom Day Speech from June 25, 1978:

https://daily.jstor.org/harvey-milks-gay-freedom-day-speech-annotated/

Some tips on how to stay safe for Pride:

https://avp.org/2023/06/06/tips-to-stay-safe-during-pride/

Discreet Pride Celebration Ideas:

https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/comments/noz889/discreet_pride_celebration_ideas/

Youth Pride Association Support Programs: