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100

In 1979, in Sweden, a number of people called in to work that they were sick with a case of homosexuality in protest of homosexuality being classified as what?

An illness

100

This performer was "Born This Way" and identifies as bisexual.

Who is Lady Gaga?

100

Who was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, thereby becoming the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States?

Who was Harvey Milk?

100

What university opened the first office for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students?

The University of Michigan (Called the Gay Advocates Office, opened in 1971)

100

A description for a person whose gender matches that which they were assigned at birth.

What is cisgender?

200

The country that legalized being homosexual in September 2018

What is India?

200

The artist who released the song Girls Like Girls in 2015.

Who is Hayley Kiyoko?

200

The first US state to recognize same-sex marriage

What is Massachusetts?

200

This fictional drama focused on a panel of lesbian characters was the first program to stay on the Showtime Network for six seasons.

What is the L Word

200

What is a genderless reclaimed term that can refer to all LGBT people?

Queer

300

In 2001, this country became the first country to legalize gay marriage.

What is The Netherlands?

300

A movie documenting the coming out story of a high school boy that came out in 2018.

What is Love Simon?

300

This bar in New York City was the location of a turning point in the Gay Rights Movement when a riot broke out during a police raid 1969 and the name has been used in many gay rights movements since then

What is The Stonewall?

300

When is National Coming Out Day?

October 11th

300

term for people who do not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth.

What is transgender?

400

In how many countries is it still punishable by death to engage in 'homosexual activity'?

10

400

Brendan Urie recently came out as this

what is pansexual?

400

The ancient poet from the island of Lesbos whose romantic poetry inspired the the term "lesbian" to refer to women who are romantically and sexually involved with other women

Who is Sappho?

400

In what year did the American Psychological Association remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders?

1973

400

A term used to describe the process of moving from one sex/gender to another, sometimes this is done by hormone or surgical treatments

What is transitioning?

500

As of September 2018, how many countries have legalized gay marriage?

27

500

Who was the first major celebrity to go public about his AIDS diagnosis?

Who is Rock Hudson?

500

What was the ancient Greek term for a gay relationship (typically between a man and a younger man)

What was a erastes-eromenos relationship?

500
The stripe on the rainbow flag that means spirit.

What is the purple stripe?

500

The assumption, in individuals or in institutions, that everyone is heterosexual, and that heterosexuality is superior to all other sexualities

What is heteronormativity?

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