Queer History and Pop Culture
Queer People of History
Queer Actors and Film
STEM
UC Davis
200

This song by Tayor Swift mentions GLAAD, or the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

"You Need to Calm Down"

200

A key figure in the LGBTQ+ rights movement in the United States. She is attributed with spearheading the Stonewall Riots in 1969.

Marshal P. Johnson

200

This song was featured in the soundtrack of infamous cult musical "The Rock Horror Picture Show" (name any).

ask James if it's right

200

This element is abbreviated as Pb in the periodic table.

Lead

200

This is the tallest building on campus, at 9 stories.

Sproul Hall

400

The Stonewall Riots took place in June of this year.

1969

400

Regularly counted among the greatest of poets and was often referred to as "the Poetess."

Sappho

400

This actor played the role of a gay cowboy in a film that had everyone saying, "Yeehaw, love is love!"

Heath Ledger

400

This class of material doesn't carry an electric charge.

insulator

400

This living-learning cooperative community is named after the shape of its dwellings, reminiscent of a hobbit's home.

the Domes

600

This show features the longest-running queer character in TV history (bonus points for naming the character).

Grey's Anatomy (Dr. Callie Torres played by Sara Ramírez)

600

Best known for his 1955 collection of essays, "Notes of a Native Son," and his groundbreaking 1956 novel, "Giovanni's Room," which depicts themes of homosexuality and bisexuality.

James Baldwin

600

This openly gay actor starred as a witty fashion journalist in a film series where the Devil indeed wore Prada.

Stanley Tucci

600

This organ is the heaviest in the human body.

the liver

600

This student-run radio station broadcasts on 90.3FM and their studio is located in 14 Lower Freeborn Hall.

KDVS

800

He was the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States.

Harvey Milk

800

Founder of the ACT UP Aids Coalition, he was an important activist during the AIDs epidemic. He had a profound impact on US medicine.

Larry Kramer

800

This groundbreaking 1993 film, directed by Gus Van Sant, depicts a day in the life of two young gay men, exploring themes of love, friendship, and identity.

My Own Private Idaho

800

There are this many prime numbers between 1 and 10.

5

800

This is the only of UC Davis's undergraduate housing complexes located within Davis city limits.

Cuarto

1000

This United States president signed a law banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in federal benefits.

President Barack Obama

1000

LGBTQ and civil rights activist best known for being a key adviser to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

Bayard Rustin

1000

This openly lesbian actress played the lead role in a series where she cracked jokes, solved crimes, and made us all want to move to the beautiful city of San Francisco.

Sharon Gless

1000

This is a system of numerical notation to the base 2, in which each place of a number, expressed as 0 or 1, represents a power of 2.

binary

1000

This horse was a parent of the thoroughbred stallion Gunrock, after whom the UC Davis mascot is modeled. (name either parent; hint: Gunrock was basically named the ship name of his parents)

Gunfire/Rock Sand