Queer History and Culture 2.0

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1. What tennis great came out as a lesbian shortly after being granted US citizenship in 1981? Margaret Smith Court Evonne Goolagong Chris Evert Martina Navratilova

2. On the Kinsey scale, what number represents someone who ONLY has romantic feelings for the same sex? 3 6 0 9

3. What day is the US-originated (but internationally observed) National Coming Out Day? September 12 October 11 February 2 November 14

4. What composer of musicals “West Side Story” and “On the Town” achieved perhaps his greatest fame as one of the outstanding conductors in American history? Andrew Lloyd Webber Arturo Toscanini Leonard Bernstein George List

5. What European city boasts the Homomonument to victims of homophobia? Prague Copenhagen Amsterdam Paris

6. What lifelong cross-dresser was the first woman to win the United States Medal of Honor? Jane Addams Mary Edwards Walker Martha Jane Cannary Mary Read

7. Raised wearing boys' clothing and trained as a sailor in the British Navy, this woman continued to dress as a man in her career as a pirate and privateer alongside Calico Jack Rackham and Anne Bonney. Who was this swashbuckler of the high seas who earned her crew's trust even when her biological gender became known? Mary Read Jane Gray Dorothea Dix Elsa Lanchester

8. What lyricist of "America the Beautiful" also wrote "Yellow Clover", a book of poetry in memory of her companion of 25 years, Katharine Coman? Hester Prynne Katharine Lee Bates Maud Adams Margaret Smith Court

9. Following World War II, General Eisenhower prepared to dishonorably discharge known lesbians from his HQ's Women’s Army Corps (WAC) battalion. What stopped him? His wife, Mamie, persuaded him otherwise Both his top aide and his secretary said that their names would be at the top of the list He was recalled to Washington by President Truman A meeting with General George S. Patton, who persuaded him otherwise

10. What future President and Vice President lived with each other for many years and socialized as a pair, with neither of them ever marrying? Andrew Jackson and John Calhoun Franklin Pierce and George M. Dallas George W. Bush and Dan Quayle James Buchanan and William King