Champions of Pride

Inspiration

“The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future” - Theodore Roosevelt.

The history of LGBTQ people has always been marginalized and underrepresented. Many people lack the knowledge and understanding of LGBTQ+ identities, their struggles, and their achievements to gain acceptance in society. With national debate focussed on censoring the stories of marginalized people from books, our app Champions of Pride, focuses on educating young people about the powerful champions who staked everything for their cause.

Knowing the stories of these powerful champions who staked everything for their cause will lead to increased acceptance of LGBTQ+ individuals and reduce the stigma faced by the community.

We also present the current status of LGBTQ+ rights in different states showing the population of LGBTQ in each state, their participation in the workforce, state laws currently in effect for nondiscrimination, sports participation, health care, and censorship on school discussion for LGBTQ people.

What it does

Our project, Champions of Pride, focuses on educating young people about the powerful champions who staked everything for their cause. The home page of the website featured the images of champions of the LGBTQ community including Alan Turing, Marsha P Johnson, and RuPaul. Users can click the read more button of each leader and we will open a new page specific for them.

In this page, we have a carousel of cards that display the early life, challenges, and achievements of each hero. We also have a chatbot, that users can use to integrate with the hero and ask questions about their struggles and challenges and what motivated them to rise above all difficulties.

In the Article page, we also present the current status of LGBTQ+ rights in different states showing the population of LGBTQ in each state, their participation in the workforce, state laws currently in effect for nondiscrimination, sports participation, health care, and censorship on school discussion for LGBTQ people.

How we built it

We built it with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. We used IBM Watson Assistant to build out chatbots.

Challenges we ran into

We had some difficulty in implementing the parallax effect on our website using CSS and collecting data on status of LGBTQ population.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are very proud of creating an app to voice marginalized champions whose stories can serve as powerful role models to youth.

What we learned

We learned about powerful role models and their struggle with the oppression of their gender identities and the significant contributions they have made to advance the cause of pride communities.