50 Pride Trivia Questions To Test Your LGBTQ Quiz Knowledge
Whether you're gay, straight or a part of the LGBTQ+ community in any way, everyone should know some basic Pride trivia. Pride is a crucial part of history for everyone, not just the LGBTQ+ communities, after all. But how much do you really know about the history of the movement? Covering everything from Supreme Court cases to pop culture phenomenons, these gay, LGBTQ trivia questions and answers may stump you, even if you think you're well-versed.
If you're looking at this solo or quizzing your friends, brush up on your Pride knowledge and show off your smarts with these Qs!
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LGBTQ+ Trivia Questions and Answers
Question: The Stonewall Inn is in which New York City neighborhood?
Answer: Greenwich Village
Question: The Stonewall riots took place in June of what year?
Answer: 1969
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Question: The United States' first Pride parade took place in what year?
Answer: 1970
Question: Laura Jane Grace fronts which rock band?
Answer: Against Me!
Question: Which former government employee became a pioneer of the LGBTQ+ rights movement after being fired for being openly gay?
Answer: Frank Kameny
Question: Taylor Swift mentions "GLAAD" in which of her songs?
Answer: "You Need to Calm Down"
Question: Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson led which activist group?
Answer: Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.)
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Question: Larry Kramer founded which AIDS activist group?
Answer: AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP)
Question: Who wrote Hedwig and the Angry Inch?
Answer: John Cameron Mitchell
Question: Cyndi Lauper wrote the music for Kinky Boots based on whose book?
Answer: Harvey Fierstein
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Question: When was the first protest for gay and lesbian rights?
Answer: The first Annual Reminder demonstration took place on July 4, 1965 in Philadelphia, PA
Question: What show features the longest-running queer character in TV history?
Answer: Grey's Anatomy (Bonus points if you can name the character: Dr. Callie Torres played by Sara Ramírez)
Question: What was the first European country to legalize same-sex marriage?
Answer: The Netherlands (Bonus points if you mentioned that it was the first country in the world to do so, too)
Question: What actress starred in Janelle Monáe's "Pynk" music video?
Answer: Tessa Thompson
Question: The original Pride flag had which two additional colors?
Answer: Hot pink and turquoise
Question: Who was the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States?
Answer: Harvey Milk
Question: Who played Harvey Milk in Milk?
Answer: Sean Penn
Question: What TV show featured the largest transgender cast in history?
Answer: Pose
Question: Who was the first Black openly gay actor to win an Emmy?
Answer: Billy Porter
Question: Will & Grace premiered in what year?
Answer: 1998
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Question: The Mattachine Society organized what sort of protest at a New York City bar in 1966?
Answer: Sip-in
Question: Tom Hanks won an Oscar for playing a gay man in what film?
Answer: Philadelphia
Question: Philadelphia added which two colors to their Pride flag in 2017?
Answer: Black and brown
Question: Which state became the first to legalize civil unions for same-sex couples?
Answer: Vermont
Question: Which activist is often credited as the "Mother of Pride"?
Answer: Brenda Howard
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Question: Who was the first-ever winner of RuPaul's Drag Race?
Answer: BeBe Zahara Benet
Question: What show featured the first recurring gay character on American TV?
Answer: The Corner Bar
Question: Which of The Golden Girls had a gay brother?
Answer: Blanche Devereaux
Question: Which iconic writer was a member of The Order of Chaeronea?
Answer: Oscar Wilde
Question: When is National Coming Out Day in the United States?
Answer: October 11
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Question: Demi Lovato played a love interest for which Glee character?
Answer: Santana Lopez (Naya Rivera)
Question: To which actress did Ellen DeGeneres come out of the closet on Ellen?
Answer: Laura Dern
Question: Michael Scott forcefully kisses which character on The Office in a misguided effort to promote tolerance?
Answer: Oscar
Question: Who wrote the Tony-winning play focused on AIDS, Angels In America?
Answer: Tony Kushner
Question: Who is credited with founding PFLAG?
Answer: Jeanne Manford
Question: PLFAG stands for what?
Answer: Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (later broadened to Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)
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Question: What show aired the first-ever lesbian wedding on American TV?
Answer: Friends
Question: The first known lesbian rights organization in the United States was called what?
Answer: Daughters of Bilitis
Question: What country currently holds the record for the biggest Pride parade ever?
Answer: Brazil
Question: What was the first gay rights organization formed after the Stonewall Riots?
Answer: Gay Liberation Front
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Question: Who designed the first Pride flag?
Answer: Gilbert Baker
Question: The Asexual Pride flag is composed of what color stripes?
Answer: Black, gray, white, purple
Question: Which United States president signed a law banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in federal benefits?
Answer: President Barack Obama
Question: Which poet's work contained the first known written references to lesbian relationships?
Answer: Sappho
Question: What documentary depicted New York City's drag ball life at the height of the AIDS crisis?
Answer: Paris Is Burning
Question: The first gay and lesbian bookstore in America was called what?
Answer: The Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop in New York City
Question: The first known LBGTQ rights organization in America was called what?
Answer: The Society for Human Rights
Question: Greg Louganis won Olympic gold in 1984 and 1988 for what sport?
Answer: Diving
Question: What was Albert's drag name in The Birdcage?
Answer: Starina
Question: Natasha Lyonne played a lesbian forced to go to a conversion therapy camp in what movie?
Answer: But I'm A Cheerleader
