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50 free LGBTQ Movies trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Queer cinema has travelled from coded subtext and late-night cult screenings to the top prizes at the Academy Awards, and the stories behind the films are as good as the films themselves. Casting choices, festival firsts, shoestring shoots and awards-night drama all make for great trivia. This quiz covers gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans stories on film: Hollywood dramas and studio comedies, cult musicals, international festival winners, biopics and documentaries. Expect questions on the actors behind famous roles, the directors and writers behind the camera, where the stories are set, and the books and real lives they came from. It is pitched for movie fans of every level. The opening questions are ones most filmgoers can reason out, while the later ones reward people who know their New Queer Cinema and their art-house imports. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you should leave with a few new titles for the watchlist.
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Q 01Which film about a boy growing up in Miami won Best Picture after La La Land was announced by mistake?
Moonlight
Moonlight became the first LGBTQ film to win Best Picture, moments after the presenters read out the wrong title from a duplicate Best Actress envelope.
Q 02Which actor played ranch hand Ennis Del Mar opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in the cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain?
Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger wanted the taciturn Ennis rather than Jack from the start, saying the character's lack of words was what made the role enjoyable.
Q 03Which actor won an Oscar playing Andrew Beckett, a lawyer fired for having AIDS, in Philadelphia?
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks won Best Actor for one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to address HIV/AIDS and homophobia directly and to show gay people in a positive light.
Q 04Which comedy stars Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as a couple who run a South Beach drag club?
The Birdcage
The Birdcage is the name of the club itself, and Elaine May's screenplay reworked the French-Italian hit La Cage aux Folles for an American audience.
Q 05Which actor won an Oscar for playing Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody?
Rami Malek
Rami Malek took Best Actor as the film collected four Oscars, more than any other title at that ceremony.
Q 06Which actor won an Oscar as Harvey Milk, the San Francisco politician at the centre of Milk?
Sean Penn
Sean Penn won Best Actor, and Dustin Lance Black's screenplay also won for its portrait of the first openly gay man elected to public office in California.
Q 07Which actor played the mad scientist Frank-N-Furter in the cult midnight musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Tim Curry
Tim Curry made his film debut in the role, and audience-participation screenings turned a film critics had ignored into the longest-running theatrical release in history.
Q 08Sean Baker shot Tangerine, about two trans friends crossing Hollywood on Christmas Eve, on what device?
An iPhone
An iPhone 5s, three of them in fact, fitted with anamorphic lens adapters and a Steadicam rig to give the film its widescreen look.
Q 09Which codebreaker, convicted of gross indecency in 1952, does Benedict Cumberbatch play in The Imitation Game?
Alan Turing
Alan Turing devised new ways to decrypt German messages in the Second World War, and the film ends with his conviction and chemical castration.
Q 10Which actress won an Oscar playing Brandon Teena, a young trans man in Nebraska, in Boys Don't Cry?
Hilary Swank
Hilary Swank landed the lead after a three-year casting search, and her co-star Chloë Sevigny was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
Q 11Which drama about racial tension in Los Angeles beat Brokeback Mountain to the Best Picture Oscar?
Crash
Crash won, and some critics accused the Academy of homophobia, though Roger Ebert defended the choice and argued that the better film had taken the prize.
Q 12Which romance set in 1980s northern Italy stars Timothée Chalamet as Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver?
Call Me by Your Name
Call Me by Your Name earned four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and won Best Adapted Screenplay for James Ivory.
Q 13Which film stars Cate Blanchett as a 1950s New York wife who falls for shop worker Therese?
Carol
Carol was shot on Super 16 mm film for a muted, period look, and the novel behind it first appeared in 1952 under a pseudonym.
Q 21Which documentary by Jennie Livingston chronicles the New York drag ball scene where voguing took shape?
Paris Is Burning
Paris Is Burning was filmed over seven years and won the Grand Jury Prize for documentaries at Sundance; the Library of Congress added it to the National Film Registry in 2016.
Q 22Which French director made Portrait of a Lady on Fire, about a painter and her reluctant subject in Brittany?
Céline Sciamma
Céline Sciamma won Best Screenplay at Cannes, where her film also became the first directed by a woman to take the Queer Palm.
Q 23Which French-language drama's Palme d'Or was shared by its director and both lead actresses?
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Q 14In the Australian road movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, what exactly is Priscilla?
A tour bus
A tour bus, christened by the youngest of the three performers who ride it across the Outback; their wardrobe won the film the Oscar for Best Costume Design.
Q 15Which fashion designer made his directing debut with A Single Man, starring Colin Firth as a bereaved professor?
Tom Ford
Tom Ford's first film brought Colin Firth an Oscar nomination and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival.
Q 16Which actress won an Oscar as Queen Anne, caught between two rival courtiers, in The Favourite?
Olivia Colman
Olivia Colman won Best Actress, while her co-stars Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz were both nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
Q 17Which jukebox musical stars Taron Egerton as Elton John and Jamie Bell as lyricist Bernie Taupin?
Rocketman
Rocketman won the Oscar for Best Original Song, for a new number that John and Taupin wrote for the film.
Q 18Which teen comedy, based on a Becky Albertalli novel, was the first major-studio film about a gay teenage romance?
Love, Simon
Love, Simon follows a teenager who falls for an anonymous classmate online, and Albertalli herself has a cameo in a cafeteria scene.
Q 19Which actor won an Oscar as Rayon, a trans woman with HIV, in Dallas Buyers Club?
Jared Leto
Jared Leto took Best Supporting Actor and co-star Matthew McConaughey won Best Actor; Rayon was a composite built from interviews with trans AIDS patients.
Q 20In which US state do Ennis and Jack meet while herding sheep in the summer of 1963 in Brokeback Mountain?
Wyoming
Wyoming is the setting, but the film was shot almost entirely in the Canadian Rockies of southern Alberta, a choice made on cost.
Blue Is the Warmest Colour won by a unanimous jury vote, with Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos honoured alongside director Abdellatif Kechiche.
Q 24Which comedy-drama stars Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as mothers whose teenagers track down their sperm donor?
The Kids Are All Right
The Kids Are All Right won the Golden Globe for best musical or comedy and was among the first mainstream films to show a same-sex couple raising teenagers.
Q 25Which satirical comedy sends Natasha Lyonne's character to a conversion therapy camp called True Directions?
But I'm a Cheerleader
But I'm a Cheerleader also gave RuPaul a rare part out of drag, as a camp counsellor who claims to be ex-gay.
Q 26Which filmmaking siblings made their debut with the noir thriller Bound, starring Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly?
The Wachowskis
The Wachowskis set out to tell a noir story about two women who scheme to steal $2 million of Mafia money, then went on to make The Matrix.
Q 27Which actor played narcoleptic street hustler Mike Waters opposite Keanu Reeves in My Own Private Idaho?
River Phoenix
River Phoenix won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at Venice for Gus Van Sant's film, which borrows part of its story from Shakespeare's Henry IV plays.
Q 28Which Catwoman actress is thanked in the title of the drag road comedy starring Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes?
Julie Newmar
Julie Newmar signed the photo that the three queens carry on their road trip, and she appears as herself to present a crown.
Q 29Which rock star won an Oscar for a song written at director Jonathan Demme's request for Philadelphia?
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen recorded Streets of Philadelphia after Demme told him he wanted a song that would be heard in shopping malls; it also won four Grammys.
Q 30Which actress won an Oscar as Berlin nightclub singer Sally Bowles in Bob Fosse's Cabaret?
Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli had once been judged too inexperienced to play Sally on Broadway; the film went on to win eight Oscars without taking Best Picture.