Question 1

This non-binary (& bisexual) animator is known for their work on popular Cartoon Network shows such as Adventure Time and Steven Universe.

Accepted Answer

Rebecca Sugar

Question 2

Natasha Lyonne played a lesbian forced to go to a conversion therapy camp in what movie?

Accepted Answer

But I'm A Cheerleader

Question 3

This American drag queen and queer icon was kicked out of high school.

Accepted Answer

RuPaul Charles

Question 4

What queer musician wore this iconic look to the 2020 Grammys?

Accepted Answer

Lil Nas X

Question 5

This song took the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 2025.

Accepted Answer

Pink Pony Club - Chappell Roan

Question 6

This queer musician’s vocal range was so impressive, scientists studied it.

Accepted Answer

Freddie Mercury

Question 7

Freddie Mercury’s song, “Delilah”, was written about what?

Accepted Answer

His favorite cat

Question 8

This queer activist was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising.

Accepted Answer

Marsha P. Johnson

Question 9

RuPaul’s self-proclaimed “big break” was dancing in which music video?

Accepted Answer

Love Shack - the B-52's

Question 10

The Stonewall Riots took place in June of 1969. True or False?

Accepted Answer

true

Question 11

Who was the first openly gay man elected to public office in the U.S.?

Accepted Answer

Harvey Milk

Question 12

This poet’s work contained the 1st known written references to lesbian love.

Accepted Answer

Sappho

Question 13

This documentary film depicted NYC’s ballroom scene at the height of the AIDS crisis.

Accepted Answer

Paris Is Burning

Question 14

This TV show featured the largest transgender cast in history.

Accepted Answer

Pose

Question 15

This EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) winner came out in 1976.

Accepted Answer

Elton John

Question 16

This drag queen, actor, and singer is closely associated with independent filmmaker John Waters.

Accepted Answer

Divine

Question 17

Roy & Silo were a couple of gay _____ at the Central Park Zoo.

Accepted Answer

Penguins, penguins, penguin, Penguin, chinstrap penguins, Chinstrap Penguins

Question 18

In the 1990’s, this failing car company saved itself by targeting lesbians in its ad campaigns.

Accepted Answer

Subaru

Question 19

What horror movie creature became a queer icon when Netflix accidentally listed the film under their LGBT category.

Accepted Answer

The Babadook

Question 20

This actor, known for his role on "How I Met Your Mother", came out in 2006.

Accepted Answer

Neil Patrick Harris

Question 21

What notable LGBTQ+ scientist and mathematician cracked 'Enigma' coded messages in WWII?

Accepted Answer

Alan Turing  - The Enigma machine was a German cipher device used during WWII to encrypt military communications. The code was incredibly complex due to its use of rotors and a plugboard, creating billions of possible settings. Decrypting German messages provided the Allies with vital intelligence which is believed to have significantly shortened the war and is considered one of the most important Allied victories.

Question 22

In 1917, this lesbian was the first woman to receive a doctorate in public health.

Accepted Answer

Sarah Josephine Baker

Question 23

In 1919, who founded the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin?

Accepted Answer

Magnus Hirshfeld - He was a German sexologist who laid the foundations for contemporary understandings of human sexuality. He also launched the world’s first gay rights organization in Berlin, which would eventually bring him into conflict with the Nazi party in the 1930s.

Question 24

John Cameron Mitchell wrote and starred in this Sundance Award winning musical in 2001.

Accepted Answer

Hedwig and The Angry Inch

Question 25

Which TV series, premiering in 2013, focused on the lives of LGBTQ+ women in prison?

Accepted Answer

Orange Is The New Black

Question 26

Who was the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award?

Accepted Answer

Laverne Cox

Question 27

In which year did the U.S. Supreme Court legalize same-sex marriage nationwide?

Accepted Answer

2015

Question 28

What was the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage in 2004?

Accepted Answer

Massachusetts

Question 29

Which organization, founded in 1973, provides crisis intervention and harm prevention services to LGBTQ+ youth?

Accepted Answer

The Trevor Project

Question 30

Which WNBA player came out as gay in 2013, and was the first queer athlete to sign an endorsement deal with Nike?

Accepted Answer

Brittney Griner

Question 31

This gay English philosopher of science coined the phrase “knowledge is power”.

Accepted Answer

Sir Francis Bacon

Question 32

The Stonewall Inn is in which New York City neighborhood?

Accepted Answer

Greenwich Village

Question 33

Which former government employee became a pioneer of the LGBTQ+ rights movement after being fired for being openly gay?

Accepted Answer

Frank Kameny

Question 34

From the 1940s to the 1970s, many lesbians subscribed to the ______ and femme roles.

Accepted Answer

Butch

Question 35

What was the first European country to legalize same-sex marriage?

Accepted Answer

Netherlands

Question 36

Drag queen, Alaska Thunderfuck, released a song in 2015 titled, Your Makeup is _______________.

Accepted Answer

Terrible

Question 37

Tom Hanks won an Oscar for playing a gay man in what film?

Accepted Answer

Philadelphia

Question 38

What was Albert’s drag name in The Birdcage?

Accepted Answer

Starina

Question 39

What queer identity is represented by this flag?

Accepted Answer

Asexual

Question 40

Who is this man?

Accepted Answer

Troye Sivan

Question 41

Which President made it illegal for the US Government to employ gay and lesbian people?

Accepted Answer

Eisenhower

Question 42

What was the first state to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation?

Accepted Answer

Wisconsin - In 1982.

Question 43

Sister Outsider is a collection of essays and other works by which lesbian feminist?

Accepted Answer

Audre Lorde

Question 44

True or false? At the time of the Stonewall Riots, it was illegal for men to dance with men, or women to dance with women.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 45

Which 1996 U.S. law defined marriage as between one man and one woman before being struck down?

Accepted Answer

Defense of Marriage Act or DOMA

Question 46

In 2019, the American Psychoanalytic Association _______  having classified homosexuality as a mental disorder.

Accepted Answer

apologized for

Question 47

What actor played Harvey Milk in the movie Milk?

Accepted Answer

Sean Penn

Question 48

Who was the first Black openly gay actor to win an Emmy?

Accepted Answer

Billy Porter

Question 49

Who was the first-ever winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race?

Accepted Answer

Tyra Sanchez

Question 50

The United State's first Pride Parade took place in what year?

Accepted Answer

1970

Question 51

The word "queer" originated in the 16th century as a Scottish term meaning "strange" or "odd"; When did the word evolve into a derogatory slur for homosexual individuals (before being reclaimed)?

Accepted Answer

1894

Question 52

Which of the following video games is NOT known for its queer representation?

Accepted Answer

GTA

Question 53

In what year did the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race air in the US?

Accepted Answer

2009

Question 54

Which playwright was charged with "gross indecency" for his homosexuality in 1895?

Accepted Answer

Oscar Wilde

Question 55

What is the name of the dance form created by Black and Latino trans, gay, and queer youth in the Harlem Ballroom scene?

Accepted Answer

Voguing

Question 56

Who designed the first Pride flag?

Accepted Answer

Gilbert Baker

NHTI Alliance's Queer History Trivia Night

2) Natasha Lyonne played a lesbian forced to go to a conversion therapy camp in what movie?

3) This American drag queen and queer icon was kicked out of high school.

4) What queer musician wore this iconic look to the 2020 Grammys?

5) This song took the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 2025.

6) This queer musician’s vocal range was so impressive, scientists studied it.

7) Freddie Mercury’s song, “Delilah”, was written about what?

8) This queer activist was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising.

9) RuPaul’s self-proclaimed “big break” was dancing in which music video?

10) The Stonewall Riots took place in June of 1969. True or False?

11) Who was the first openly gay man elected to public office in the U.S.?

12) This poet’s work contained the 1st known written references to lesbian love.

13) This documentary film depicted NYC’s ballroom scene at the height of the AIDS crisis.

14) This TV show featured the largest transgender cast in history.

15) This EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) winner came out in 1976.

16) This drag queen, actor, and singer is closely associated with independent filmmaker John Waters.

17) Roy & Silo were a couple of gay _____ at the Central Park Zoo.

18) In the 1990’s, this failing car company saved itself by targeting lesbians in its ad campaigns.

19) What horror movie creature became a queer icon when Netflix accidentally listed the film under their LGBT category.

20) This actor, known for his role on "How I Met Your Mother", came out in 2006.

21) What notable LGBTQ+ scientist and mathematician cracked 'Enigma' coded messages in WWII?

22) In 1917, this lesbian was the first woman to receive a doctorate in public health.

23) In 1919, who founded the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin?

24) John Cameron Mitchell wrote and starred in this Sundance Award winning musical in 2001.

25) Which TV series, premiering in 2013, focused on the lives of LGBTQ+ women in prison?

26) Who was the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award?

27) In which year did the U.S. Supreme Court legalize same-sex marriage nationwide?

28) What was the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage in 2004?

29) Which organization, founded in 1973, provides crisis intervention and harm prevention services to LGBTQ+ youth?

30) Which WNBA player came out as gay in 2013, and was the first queer athlete to sign an endorsement deal with Nike?

31) This gay English philosopher of science coined the phrase “knowledge is power”.

32) The Stonewall Inn is in which New York City neighborhood?

33) Which former government employee became a pioneer of the LGBTQ+ rights movement after being fired for being openly gay?

34) From the 1940s to the 1970s, many lesbians subscribed to the ______ and femme roles.

35) What was the first European country to legalize same-sex marriage?

36) Drag queen, Alaska Thunderfuck, released a song in 2015 titled, Your Makeup is _______________.

37) Tom Hanks won an Oscar for playing a gay man in what film?

38) What was Albert’s drag name in The Birdcage?

39) What queer identity is represented by this flag?

40) Who is this man?

41) Which President made it illegal for the US Government to employ gay and lesbian people?

42) What was the first state to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation?

43) Sister Outsider is a collection of essays and other works by which lesbian feminist?

44) True or false? At the time of the Stonewall Riots, it was illegal for men to dance with men, or women to dance with women.

45) Which 1996 U.S. law defined marriage as between one man and one woman before being struck down?

46) In 2019, the American Psychoanalytic Association _______ having classified homosexuality as a mental disorder.

47) What actor played Harvey Milk in the movie Milk?

48) Who was the first Black openly gay actor to win an Emmy?

49) Who was the first-ever winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race?

50) The United State's first Pride Parade took place in what year?

51) The word "queer" originated in the 16th century as a Scottish term meaning "strange" or "odd"; When did the word evolve into a derogatory slur for homosexual individuals (before being reclaimed)?

52) Which of the following video games is NOT known for its queer representation?

53) In what year did the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race air in the US?

54) Which playwright was charged with "gross indecency" for his homosexuality in 1895?

55) What is the name of the dance form created by Black and Latino trans, gay, and queer youth in the Harlem Ballroom scene?

56) Who designed the first Pride flag?