The First Pride Was A Riot
Police raided this New York City bar, sparking the riots that led to the formation of the modern LGBTQ Civil Rights Movement.
What is the Stonewall Inn?
This Group, founded in 1987, worked to end the AIDS Pandemic through protests, speeches, and the famous motto "Silence = Death."
What is Act Up?
This 2016 Best Picture Winner outshines any announcement snafu with its thoughtful and sincere portrayal of a gay black man's life set in three stages.
What is Moonlight?
This is the largest country in South America and the world’s fifth-largest country by population.
What is Brazil?
This 1990 chart-topping song had listeners "strike a pose."
What is Vogue?
Born to sharecropper parents, she grew up to become a highly acclaimed novelist, essayist, and poet. Best known for her 1982 novel The Color Purple, which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Who is Alice Walker?
She captained the U.S. national women's soccer team to victory in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Who is Megan Rapinoe?
This year wasn't just the first Pride; it was also the summer of Woodstock, the moon landing, and the Miracle Mets.
What is 1969?
This Advocate and Emmy nominated actress Actress was also the first openly transgender woman on the cover of Time Magazine.
Who is Laverne Cox?
The remake of La Cage aux Folles, starring Robin Williams and Nathan lane, was the top-grossing LGBT film in America from 1996 until it was dethroned by 2018's Bohemian Rhapsody.
What is the Birdcage?
Name the Latina who stars in the comedy show, "Modern Family" and Spell it!
Who is Sofia Vergara?
This dance single from 1993 helped introduce many of the popular phrases RuPaul uses on Drag Race today, including Sashay and Shanté.
What is Supermodel (You Better Work)?
This African-American dancer, choreographer, and director choreographed 79 ballets in his lifetime.
Who is Alvin Ailey?
This freestyle skier, famous for rescuing dogs during the 2014 Sochi winter Olympics, has also appeared as an actor on "American Horror Story."
Who is Gus Kenworthy?
This outspoken drag queen and founding member of the Gay Liberation Front was one of the first drag queens to fight back against the police at the uprising.
Who is Marsha P. Johnson?
This Mathematician has both a test and a law pardoning all convictions due to one's Homosexuality.
Who is Alan Turing?
Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner won a best costume design Oscar for this 1994 Australian dramedy following three drag queens across the outback.
What is Priscilla Queen of the Desert?
Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California used to belong to this country until the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848.
What is Mexico?
This 1990 film introduced mainstream audiences to the ball culture of New York City.
What is Paris is Burning?
This dancer, the choreographer is known as the “Grandfather of Vogue”.
Who is Willi Ninja?
Though she won 39 grand slam Women's Tennis singles titles, she may be most famous for beating retired men's champion Bobby Riggs in the infamous 1973 "Battle of the Sexes."
Who is Billie Jean King?
This West Village thoroughfare, where the riots took place, is now home to the first U.S. National Monument dedicated to LGBTQ rights and history.
What is Christopher Street?
Judith Butler first theorized that Gender was performative in our society in this 1990 book.
What is Gender Trouble?
This screenwriter won in 2008 for his work in the Gus Van Sant directed sensation, Milk.
Who is Dustin Lance Black?
This civilization was considered one of the largest empires in the world before Franciso Pizarro overthrew their leader in 1532.
What the Inca Empire?
This outdoor drag festival's title is a play on the famous New York festival from 1969.
What is Wigstock?
A self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.
Who is Audre Lorde?
This world-champion diver and YouTube vlogger is married to Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black.
Who is Tom Daley?
This weekly newspaper, a neighborhood staple from 1955 to 2018, printed the first in-depth coverage of the riots, launching a second wave of protests on July 2.
What is the Village Voice?
Artist Gilbert Baker's original design for the pride flag in the late '70s had this many stripes in it originally before it became the version that Baker himself described as "Commercialized."
What is Eight?
The Wedding Banquet and Brokeback Mountain, both LGBT oriented films, were directed by this Oscar-Winning Director.
Who Is Ang Lee?
This football (soccer) player, has been hailed as one of the greatest players in the world and broke the record as the youngest player to score a goal at 16 at FC Barcelona.
What is Lionel Messi?
This 2016 documentary has been recognized at the sequel to the 1990 documentary as both follow the NYC Ball scene. This is also a term for a social gathering.
What is Kiki?
Best known for his poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” was published when he was still in his teens. Its famous line, “My soul has grown deep like the rivers,” was used as his epitaph.
Who is Langston Hughes?
This three-time grand slam winner was the first Black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open.
Who is Arthur Ashe?
Many of the rioters were LGBTQ homeless youth, who were camped out in this small triangular park near 7th Avenue named after a Civil War general.
What is Sheridan Square?
In 1948, disillusioned by American prejudice against blacks and homosexuals, James Baldwin left the United States and departed to this country, where he would live as an expatriate for most of his later life.
What is Paris, France?
Winning an Oscar, this documentary followed a prominent politician, the first openly gay man elected in California History.
What is The Times of Harvey Milk?
This famous scientist has largely based his theory of evolution on the discoveries he made at the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador in 1835.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This drag queen and fashion designer earned the title of "the last remaining queen of the Harlem drag balls."
Who is Pepper LaBeija?
Born in Pennsylvania, on March 17, 1912, this LGBTQ and Civil Rights Activist is best known as the chief organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and a key adviser to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
He was the first out player in the NFL, but he was cut from the roster before playing any games with the St. Louis Rams.
Who is Michael Sam?
Some consider the death of this beloved singer, actress, and LGBTQ icon as one of the catalysts for the riots, as they broke out on the night of her funeral.
Who is Judy Garland?
This Activist and Plaintiff helped with same-sex couples' federal rights, with her case overturning Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Who is Edith Windsor?
At the age of 89, this renowned director and screenwriter won Best Adapted Screenplay for the 2017 hit, Call Me By Your Name.
Who is James Ivory?
Which Latinx country houses the world’s tallest waterfall, Angel Falls?
What is Venezuela?
She was already reached legendary status in the ballroom before she was the mother of the House of Wintour in the Emmy-winning series, Pose.
Who is Dominique Jackson?
Lori Lightfoot, a former prosecutor, is this city’s 56th mayor and first black female and first openly LGBTQ mayor.
What is Chicago?
This member of the National Women's Hockey League's Metropolitan Riveters was the first professional athlete to come out as transgender.
Who is Harrison Browne?