This out statistician and writer successfully predicted the winner of every state in the 2012 presidential election.
Who is Nate Silver?
100
Name the year in which homosexuality was removed as a mental disorder from the DSM.
What is 1973?
100
This neurobiologist became the first openly transgender scientist in the US National Academy of Sciences in 2013.
Who is Ben Barres?
100
This pairing began slash fiction as we know it today.
What is Kirk/Spock?
100
How many out Scientists have won a Nobel Prize?
What is 0?
200
This mathematician and computer scientist worked for Britain's Codebreaking Centre during WWII and developed a theoretical test of artificial intelligence.
Who is Alan Turing?
200
In what year did the DSM do away with the stigmatizing classification of "Gender Identity Disorder"?
What is 2012?
200
Biologists Bruce Bagemihl and Joan Roughgarden actively challenged the notion that homosexual behavior in animals were purely dominance displays in what famous museum exhibition?
What is "Against Nature" or "Rainbow Animals"?
200
This actor came out two years after he played Spock in the 2009 reboot of Star Trek.
Who is Zachary Quinto?
200
Who was the first known queer astronaut?
Who is Sally Ride?
300
This out mathematician is well known for writing one of the most widely distributed calculus textbooks and also commissioned the famous "Integral House" in Canada.
Who is James Stewart?
300
This bisexual psychologist expanded on the Kinsey scale in his sexual orientation grid.
Who is Fritz Klein?
300
This noted transgender evolutionary biologist wrote "Evolution's Rainbow" in 2004 to critique Darwinian sexual selection.
Who is Joan Roughgarden?
300
The original Sulu.
Who is George Takei?
300
What was the name of the children's science writer and tennis champion that co-founded Sally Ride Science?
Who is Tam O'Shaughnessy?
400
This computer scientist and electrical engineer was fired by IBM in 1968 for transitioning, but not before she invented generalized dynamic instruction handling.
Who is Lynn Conway?
400
This former Harvard psychology professor did not come out until eight years before his death in 1997. His work emphasized linguistics and social psychology.
Who is Roger Brown?
400
This out chemist was in an undergrad band with Tom Morello of later Rage Against the Machine fame and has also modified the protein and sugar molecules in the walls of living cells so that the cells do not reject foreign materials. She was one of the youngest recipients of the Macarthur "Genius" grant.
Who is Carolyn R. Bertozzi?
400
This feminist science fiction film from 1983 written and directed by Lizzie Borden discussed racism, classism, sexism and heterosexism in the USA.
What is "Born in Flames"?
400
MIT professor and recipient of a Macarthur Genius Grant, this queer woman of color led the charge to prove Einstein’s theory about gravitational waves.
Who is Nergis Mavalvala?
500
This woefully misguided Florida State Representative proclaimed in a 2014 event that new Common Core Math Practices were designed to promote the ~gay agenda~ with children.
Who is political sad-sack Charles Van Zant?
500
This out clinical psychologist has spoken publicly regarding the significance of the right to divorce.
Who is Davina Kotulski?
500
These protandrous hermaphrodites live in sea anemone.
Who are clownfish? [The reverse is protygynous.]
500
This woman wrote for DC/Vertigo comics with Neil Gaiman before publishing multiple paleontology manuscripts regarding the biostratigraphy of the Mosasaur.
Who is Caitlin R. Kiernan?
500
This conference is intended to support trans* computer scientists.