Random Book Facts
This classic children's book by Eric Carle published in 1969 centers around this hungry insect.
What is The Very Hungry Caterpillar?
This gay bar and tavern was the site of riots in 1969 which was arguably the start of today's movement for LGBTQ+ rights?
What is the Stonewall Inn?
This queer icon in women's sports came out in 1981, eight years after the “Battle of the Sexes."
Who is Billie Jean King?
This Jewish icon and native New Yorker has cemented his legacy as a comedy icon, getting his start on SNL.
Who is Adam Sandler?
This process occurs in a forest after a large or small disturbance.
What is succession?
A Study In Scarlet, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, marks the first appearance of this doctor and detective's assistant.
Who is John Watson?
This ancient greek poet wrote poems about her love for women, many of which we have now lost.
Who is Sappho?
This Jewish Super-Bowl MVP played his entire career with the New England Patriots.
Who is Julian Edelman?
This 1983 musical follows a young Jewish woman who disguises herself as male and enrolls in a religious school.
What is "Yentl"?
This top soil layer is composed from dead and decaying organic matter.
What is humus?
This author is known for writing works of speculative fiction, including The Handmaid's Tale.
Who is Margaret Atwood?
This baby penguin in the Central Park Zoo, raised by two male penguins, was the subject of a banned book and a great deal of controversy.
Who is Tango?
This queer and Jewish athlete is often regarded as one of the greats of women's basketball, being inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame just last year.
Who is Sue Bird?
Which film starred Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott and was about two best friends who opened a fight club in their high school in order to meet women?
What is "Bottoms"?
Engaging in this form of timber harvesting near a river will increase water temperature and turbidity.
What is clear-cutting?
This graphic novel series by Alice Oseman, now a Netflix series, follows the lives of two British high schoolers as they meet and fall in love.
What is Heartstopper?
What was the name for the island micronation declared an "independent gay and lesbian state" in 2004?
What is the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands?
This figure skater made history as the first ever openly queer athlete to represent Team USA in Olympic singles figure skating.
Who is Amber Glenn?
This 1999 queer rom-com is about a young woman who is sent to a conversion camp by her parents, discovering her true identity.
What is “But I’m A Cheerleader"?
This name is a "punny" label for the network of fungi connecting trees across vast distances.
What is the "Wood Wide Web"?
This 1936 cosmic horror novella by HP Lovecraft follows an expedition to the Arctic that reveals an ancient alien civilization.
What is At the Mountains of Madness?
This case, decided in 1990 by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, overturned the decision made in a lower court that gay and lesbian people employed in the technology industry could legally be denied access to classified information on the basis of their sexuality.
What was High Tech Gays v. Defense Industry Clearing Office?
This son of Russian-Jewish immigrants made history when he drafted the first Black player into the NBA in 1950, thus breaking the color barrier in professional basketball. His name is now forever etched onto the court of the Boston Celtics.
Who is Red Auerbach?
This film features Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, and Wesley Snipes as a drag queens.
What is "To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar”?
An inchworm also can be called by this name.
What is a cankerworm?