Queer Media and Pop Culture
This month features the celebration of Pride every year in the United States, in anniversary of the Stonewall riots.
What is Pride?
What is: 2015?
Halloween comes from Samhain [sow-in], a pagan festival celebrated by this culture of people.
What is: Celtic?
Finish the sentence: "I hate ____, what do you mean you’re dressed as [insert niche reference here]"
What is gay halloween?
These three colors are most commonly associated with Halloween.
What are orange, black, and purple?
Name two popular queer music artists from the 2000s and later.
What is: Troye Sivan, Lil Nas X, Hayley Kiyoko, Doechii, Frank Ocean, Tyler The Creator?
Name two people involved in the Stonewall riot.
Who are: Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, James Baldwin, Harvey Milk, Bayard Rustin….?
People originally dressed up for Halloween for this reason.
What is: to ward of ghosts and evil spirits?
Surprisingly, the original 1969 television series Scooby Doo: Where Are You features this many Halloween episodes.
What is zero?
This famous author wrote Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus in 1818.
Who is Mary Shelley?
This nickname was given to Dolly Parton for her music.
The original rainbow Pride flag has had this many iterations.
What is: 4?
The first jack-o'-lanterns were made from this root vegetable.
What is turnips?
It was these three pet Halloween costumes that were the most popular in 2025.
What are pumpkin, hotdog, and bumblebee?
This common practice is employed by many animal shelters leading up to Halloween.
What is putting a hold on adoption of black cats?
The popular original series "RuPaul's Drag Race" has this many seasons since the show's first airing.
What is: 18?
The Stonewall Inn riot, now colloquially known as the historic "Stonewall" or "Stonewall riot", happened in this year.
What is: 1969?
Halloween was originally called this in the 8th century.
What is: All Hallows Eve?
This infamous 1960s show, title-dropped by the narrator at the end of every story, follows ordinary people facing impossible and uncanny events every episode as a way to teach moral lessons to the audience.
What is The Twilight Zone?
The modern pumpkin is categorized as this type of squash.
What is a winter squash?
This Gothic novella features one of the first lesbian vampires in media.
What is: Carmilla?
This country was the first to perform transgender surgery.
What is: Germany?
It was for this historical reason that candy manufacturers marketed candy to people to get and give out for Halloween.
What is the ending of WWII and sugar rationing?
It was in this year that Nightmare Before Christmas was released.
What is 1993?
After planting a pumpkin seed, it takes this many months to be ready to harvest.
What is 4 months?