Q 01/05

Which children's TV show had a handbag-carrying character denounced as a gay role model by Jerry Falwell in 1999?

A) Sesame Street

B) Teletubbies

C) Blue's Clues

D) Barney & Friends

Answer · why

B) Teletubbies

Teletubbies drew the televangelist's fire because Tinky Winky was purple, had a triangular antenna and carried a bag. The BBC answered that he was sim...

Q 02/05

Which Manhattan venue did police raid on 28 June 1969, sparking days of riots that reshaped gay activism?

A) Black Cat Tavern

B) Compton's Cafeteria

C) Cooper Do-nuts

D) Stonewall Inn

Answer · why

D) Stonewall Inn

Stonewall Inn regulars fought back instead of dispersing. A year later, marches in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago marked the anniversary, the first...

Q 03/05

Which mathematician, convicted of gross indecency in 1952, is the namesake of a 2017 British law pardoning gay men?

A) Bertrand Russell

B) G. H. Hardy

C) Alan Turing

D) Roger Penrose

Answer · why

C) Alan Turing

Alan Turing, the wartime codebreaker, was sentenced to chemical castration and died in 1954. Some 49,000 men had been pardoned posthumously under the ...

Q 04/05

Which colour of ribbon, first worn on screen by Jeremy Irons at the 1991 Tony Awards, signals AIDS awareness?

A) Red

B) Pink

C) Purple

D) Yellow

Answer · why

A) Red

Red was picked by the artists of New York's Visual AIDS for its link to blood and to passion. They took the idea from the ribbons then being worn for ...

Q 05/05

Which dance style, born in Harlem's ballroom scene, did Madonna take into the mainstream with a 1990 hit?

A) Waacking

B) Locking

C) Voguing

D) Popping

Answer · why

C) Voguing

Voguing copies the stances that models strike in fashion magazines, which is how it got its name. Dancers also borrowed the angular figures of ancient...