Queer Science
The scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, behaviors, and functions, which often played a large role in early scientific exploration of queerness.
What is sexology?
In Paris is Burning, what term describes the underground culture of competitive dance and performance among LGBTQ+ people of color in 1980s New York City?
What is ballroom culture?
The Turing test, designed by Alan Turing, assesses a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior indistinguishable from a human. What field of study does this test primarily belong to?
What is artificial intelligence?
This drag queen, famous for her role in cult classic movie Pink Flamingos, was an inspiration for the design of Ursula in The Little Mermaid.
Who is Divine?
Haunted forever in fear of being its shadow, UC Davis was originally an extension of what other UC Campus?
What is UC Berkeley?
Two male members of this bird species at the Central Park Zoo made headlines when they adopted a baby chick together, inspiring the children’s book And Tango Makes Three.
What are penguins?
Who was the first openly lesbian comedian to star in a primetime sitcom, publicly coming out on her show in 1997?
Who is Ellen Degeneres?
This gay chemist, Alan Hart, was one of the first trans men to undergo gender-affirming surgery and made significant contributions to the early diagnosis of which disease?
tuberculosis
This Japanese-American Star Trek actor came out publicly in 2005, and has been a prominent LGBT and immigrant rights activist for over two decades.
Who is George Takei?
Humorously patted on his head in finals week, this piece of art is the oldest of its series, installed in 1991.
What is Bookhead?
Also known as the Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale, this scale originally developed in the 1950s, rates individuals from 1 (total heterosexuality) to 6 (total homosexuality).
What is the Kinsey scale?
Who directed the landmark 1999 queer film But I'm a Cheerleader, starring Natasha Lyonne as a lesbian cheerleader?
Who is Jamie Babbit?
What is the name of the curve traced by a point on the rim of a rolling circle?
What is a cycloid?
Nicknamed as the “Guardian of Lesbians in the Village,” for her work as a bouncer and volunteer street patrol worker, this self-identified “biracial butch lesbian” was rumored to have thrown the first punch at Stonewall.
Who is Stormé deLarverie?
This building houses one of the main media labs, it is a designated historical site, was originally known as “The Animal Sciences Building” and houses a large display of UC Davis student advocacy along its halls. (It is also the prettiest building on campus - Erna)
What is Hart Hall?
This gay Jewish physician was an outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, including transgender rights, and founded the Institute of Sexual Research in Weimar Germany.
Who is Magnus Hirschfeld?
Which Netflix reality show features five queer women and non-binary individuals who travel around the U.S. to help others embrace their queerness and self-love?
What is The Queer Collective?
Which part of the brain controls involuntary actions like breathing and heart rate?
What is the medulla oblongata?
Known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance, this Black writer and social activist was thought to have been asexual or gay. Some of his most famous poems include “Dreams,” “I, too,” and “Harlem.”
Who is Langston Hughes?
It is the oldest building on campus, being built in 1907. It is near the library and covered in greenery. It was also named after a UC Davis Chancellor.
What is Wyatt Pavilion Theater?
This sapphic woman was the first director of New York’s Bureau of Child Hygiene, and a pioneer of preventative medicine and public health. It’s estimated that she saved the lives of 90,000 children in New York.
Who is Sara Josephine Baker?
Which openly gay fashion designer founded a prominent fashion house and tragically died in 2003, leaving a lasting impact on haute couture?
Who is Yves Saint Laurent?
What is the name of the process by which living bacteria can exchange genetic material, often leading to antibiotic resistance?
What is conjugation?
Many scholars speculate that this man and Alexander the Great may have been lovers, citing a letter attributed to Diogenes of Sinope that Alexander was defeated only once in his life, by this man’s thighs.
Who is Hephaestion?
He held a faculty position at the department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis, and was credited with coining the term “feminazi” by Rush Limbaugh while at Davis!
Who is Tom Hazlett?