This famous rainbow flag is a staple of the LGBTQ+ community.
What is the rainbow/pride flag?
Riots began and lasted from June 28, 1969 to July 3, 1969 in New York City, after an unlawful police raid on this prominent gay bar.
What is Stonewall?
Zaya Wade is the daughter of this former professional basketball player. He most notably played for the Miami Heat from 2003 to 2016.
Who is Dwyane Wade?
The movie The Imitation Game centers around this pioneer in computer science. He also helped break the German Enigma Code.
Who is Alan Turing?
This country recently hosted the World Cup and is notorious for its anti-LGBTQ+ laws.
What is Qatar?
This flag represents a sexuality that likes more than one gender.
What is the bisexual flag?
The Supreme Court case, Lawrence v. this conservative state, ruled that that state’s statute against intimate, consensual sexual conduct was unconstitutional. This state is home to Ted Cruz.
What is Texas?
Elliot Page plays Viktor, the overlooked seventh member of the Hargreaves siblings, in this Netflix original series.
What is the Umbrella Academy?
This singer-songwriter sang “it’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to.” She came out as gay in 2005 and lived with her partner, Lois Sasson, until her death in 2015.
Who was Lesley Gore?
This state was the first to legalize gay marriage in the United States. It’s also home to Fenway Park and Harvard University.
What is Massachusetts?
This flag celebrates the identity of those who do not identify with their gender assigned at birth.
What is the transgender flag?
Blood banks banned gay men from donating blood out of fear of this autoimmune virus. This virus is well known for being Rock Hudson’s and Freddie Mercury’s cause of death.
What is H.I.V./A.I.D.S.?
This entertainer, who’s real first name is Farouk, sang about his only friend through teenage nights and everything he had to know, he heard it on his radio at Live Aid in 1985.
Who is Freddie Mercury?
This football player became the first openly gay NFL player after coming out in June of 2021. He also became the first openly gay player in a playoff game while a linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Who is Carl Nassib?
The Stonewall riots occurred in this bustling city, just on the other side of the Hudson River.
What is New York City?
This flag represents those that do not identify solely by male or female.
What is the non-binary flag?
This gay and transgender rights activist was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and played a prominent role in the Stonewall riots. The P in her name stood for her motto, which was “pay it no mind.”
Who was Marsha P. Johnson?
In 1992 this classical rock musician came out to Rolling Stone magazine. He now has a husband and two kids.
Who is Elton John?
This Cameroonian-American drag queen won the first season of RuPaul’s Drag Race. She also appeared on All Stars 3.
Who is Bebe Zahara Benet?
This state was the first to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation. It’s famous for its cheese and the Green Bay Packers.
What is Wisconsin?
This flag was updated to include the intersex community.
What is the progress flag?
This activist championed gay and, especially, transgender rights. She was present at the Stonewall riots and, contrary to the popular myth, did not throw the first Molotov cocktail at police, but she did throw the second.
Who was Sylvia Riveria?
This star of Stranger Things came out as gay in a 2023 TikTok.
Who is Noah Schnapp?
This movie star in the late 1920s and early 1930s was the first openly gay Hollywood star. He attended many movie premiers with his partner, Jimmie Shields, and even left acting behind after being given the ultimatum of marrying someone selected by MGM Studios or doing just what he did.
Who was William Haines?
This country has a 9.78 on the Global Acceptance Index, which measures the acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community according to each country. This country is well-known for its Blue Lagoon and is in Europe, but not continental Europe.
What is Iceland?