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100
Created by Stone Yamashita, what organization does this symbol represent?
What is the Human Rights Campaign?
100
An NYC artist and activist, his work emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s and depicted sexual allusions that turned into social activism by using the images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness.
Who is Keith Haring?
100
The percentage of Gen Z Americans who identify as LGBT
What is 20.8%?
100
The first openly gay person elected into public office in the state of California.
Who was Harvey Milk?
100
The acronym "ftm" stands for this transgender related term
What is Female-to-Male?
200
Introduced as a part of World AIDS Day in 1989, this symbol represents a lack of something
What is A Day Without Art?
200
Activist best known for her role in the 1969 Stonewall riots along with her advocacy around the unhoused and sex-worker communities
Who is Silvia Rivera?
200
Creator of the simple test which names the following three criteria for movies:
(1) it has to have at least two women in it, who
(2) who talk to each other, about
(3) something besides a man
Who is Alison Bechdel?
200
He became a spokesperson for MAC Cosmetics in 1994, raising money for the Mac AIDS Fund and becoming the first drag queen to land a major cosmetics campaign
Who is RuPaul?
200
Billie Joe Armstrong came out as bisexual in 1995, and is the lead singer for this band of American Idiots
Who are Green Day?
300
The green carnation became a subtle symbol of queer identity in 1892 when this famous playwright asked friends to wear it to the opening night of his comedy Lady Windermere’s Fan
Who is Oscar Wilde?
300
He was a dancer, choreographer and is known as the "Grandfather of Vogue," the dance style that he helped propel to the national stage. He was also featured in the award-winning 1990 documentary "Paris Is Burning".
Who was Willi Ninja?
300
The number of countries that deme marriage equality as legal
What is 31 countries?
300
The first LGBTQ person to travel to space
Who was Sally Ride?
300
According to The Lesbian Bar Project, you'll have to be pretty picky when choosing where to grab your next drink because, as of 2021, there are this many lesbian bars left in the continental United States
What is 21?
400
What does the Blue stripe on this popular flag, created by Gilbert Baker, mean?
What is Harmony?
Pink: Sex / Red: Life / Orange: Healing / Yellow: Sunlight / Green: Nature / Turquoise: Magic / Blue: Harmony / Violet: Spirit
400
Author of 'The Normal Heart' and 1987 founder of the advocacy group ACT UP, this outspoken author passed away in 2020.
Larry Kramer
400
Of the 118 films counted by GLAAD in 2019, these were the two most LGBTQ inclusive genres
What are Comedy and Drama?
400
This was the year of the first official LGBT pride march in New York City.
What is 1970? (Five months after the Stonewall Riots)
400
A term adopted by some people who identify as neither male nor female, as both, or as somewhere in between, and who often seek to blur gender lines. It is a particularly common identity among transgender youth
What is Genderqueer?
500
Once used by the Nazis, this symbol was later coopted by a group of activists to speak out about the AIDs crisis in 1986 and was accompanied by these words
What is "Silence=Death"?
500
He organized the 1963 March on Washington, was a key advisor of Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. and was a key LGBTQ & civil rights activist.
Who was Bayard Rustin?
500
The number of medals earned by LGBTQIA+ athletes at the 2021 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo (1.6% of total athletes publicly identified within the LGBTQIA+)
What were 33?
500
Created in 1989 by C.M. Ralph, this was the first known LGBTQ video game.
What is Caper in the Castro?
500
This big state was taken to the Supreme Court by a private party, lost, and the ruling set a standard that decriminalized homosexuality in America (including in all 13 states that had not already) in 2003
What is Texas (Lawrence v. Texas)?