It’s one week into LGBT History Month so have you been studying hard? Take the two-minute quiz to find out if you’re going to the top off the class or have to stay back after school for some discipline (no sniggering).
1 In what year was the last known execution for homosexuality in Britain?
2 True or false, the ban on lesbians and gays serving in the British armed forces was lifted in 2002?
3 Which early 20th century anarchist was described as “the first and only woman, indeed the first and only American, to take up the defence of homosexual love before the general public.”
4 In what year were civil partnerships for same-sex couples legalised in Britain?
5 In “Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male” (1948), Alfred Kinsey claimed what percentage of men had engaged in homosexual activity at least once?
a) 64% b) 55% c) 37% d) 28%
6 Which US State was the first to decriminalise homosexuality in 1961?
7 Who wrote the first openly lesbian novel, “The Well of Loneliness”?
8 Name the first gay rights group in England, formed in 1897 by George Cecil Ives?
9 The Stonewall riots of 1969 were a defining event that triggered gay rights movements across the world, but in which city did they occur?
10 Frederick II, King of Prussia, had numerous male lovers including a long term romance with which famous French philosopher?
Part three of the quiz will go live next week. Study hard and you will be rewarded (not with anything tangible like money, just with the satisfaction that comes through being our star pupil).
Answers
1 1836
2 False, it was 2000
3 Emma Goldman
4 2004
5 c) 37%
6 Illinois
7 Radclyffe Hall
8 The Order of Chaeronea
9 New York
10 Voltaire
How did you do?
0-4/10 Disaster! You’ve probably been too busy sleeping with that 37% to concentrate in class.
5-6/10 Ok. But we expect you to do much better next week or there will be big trouble.
7-8/10 Great! Take a bonus point for spelling Chaeronea properly.
9-10/10 Teacher’s Pet. I bet you were bullied in school too. And not just for being gay.