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Trivia Night: Black LGBTQ+ History
Trivia Night: Black LGBTQ+ History
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1
Previously dating Tallulah Bankhead, was the first Black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress?
D) Lupita Nyong'o
A) Hattie McDaniel
B) Whoopi Goldberg
C) Octavia Spencer
2
Which Black LGBTQ+ performer has been dubbed "The Queen of Drag?"
D) Simone
B) RuPaul
C) Shea Coulee
A) Peppermint
3
Which Black LGBTQ+ activist co-founded the Gay Liberation Front?
B) Bayard Rustin
D) James Baldwin
A) Marsha P. Johnson
C) Audre Lorde
4
Which Black LGBTQ+ author wrote "Black Feeling, Black Talk"?
C) June Jordan
A) Audre Lorde
D) Nikki Giovanni
B) Alice Walker
5
Which Black LGBTQ+ activist was a key figure in the Black Panther Party?
C) Kathleen Cleaver
B) Elaine Brown
A) Angela Davis
D) Tarika Lewis
6
Progress Pride flag added black, brown, light blue, pink, & white showing inclusion of trans & LGBTQ+ people of color in
B) 2018
C) 2019
D) 2020
A)2017
7
This "Grandfather of Vogue" appeared in Paris is Burning
B) Peppermint LeBeija
D) Angi Extravanganza
William Ninja
C) Borian Crey
8
Which Black LGBTQ+ author wrote "The Fire Next Time"?
B) Langston Hughes
C) Richard Wright
D) Ralph Ellison
A) James Baldwin
9
Playing an LGBTQ+ character, she's the 1st Black woman to win Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a drama series
D) Regina King
A) Viola Davis
C) Taraji P. Henson
B) Kerry Washington
10
What dance style was created by LGBTQ+ black and Latinx communities as a liberating form of self-expression & identity?
A) Lip Syncing
C) Interpetive
B) Vogueing
D) Ballet
11
Which Black LGBTQ+ activist founded the House of Xtravaganza?
D) Crystal LaBeija
A) Angie Xtravaganza
C) Angel Xtravaganza
B) Pepper Xtravaganza
12
Who was the first Black trans woman to be featured on the cover of Vogue?
D) Tracey Africa Norman
A) Janet Mock
B) Laverne Cox
C) Indya Moore
13
Which queer singer-songwriter, known for
Q.U.E.E.N.
and
Make Me Feel
, has been a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ rights?
D) Prince
B) Janelle Monae
A) Lil Nas X
C) Little Richard
14
Which Black LGBTQ+ activist was a leader in the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project?
D) Cecilia Chung
C) Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
A) Janet Mock
B) Kylar Broadus
15
The oldest winner of a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, she was pivotal in bringing black LGBTQ+ stories to TV
B) Viola Davis
A) Phylicia Rashad
C) Diahann Carroll
D) Cicely Tyson
16
Which documentary focused on "house" culture and drag balls in NYC, including highlighting issues of racism and poverty?
A) Disclosure
C) Paris is Burning
B) Extravaganza Eleganza
D) Sashay
17
A supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, who was the first Black woman to win a Grammy Award?
D) Mahalia Jackson
A) Ella Fitzgerald
B) Aretha Franklin
C) Billie Holiday
18
Known during the Harlem Renaissance for blues singing & gender bending, she was known as "Harlem's most famous Lesbian"
D) Gladys Bentley
B) Janet Mock
A) Stormie DeLarverie
C) Angela Davis
19
Who was the first black drag queen to win RuPaul's Drag Race?
Bebe Zahara Benet
Jada Essence Hall
Bob the Drag Queen
Shangela
20
Part of the LGBTQ+ community, who is known as the "Mother of the Blues"?
A) Ma Rainey
D) Nina Simone
B) Bessie Smith
C) Billie Holiday
21
Part of the LGBTQ+ community, who was the first Black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
B) Toni Morrison
A) Alice Walker
C) Zora Neale Hurston
D) Maya Angelou
22
Which Black LGBTQ+ author wrote "Sister Outsider"?
C) June Jordan
A) Audre Lorde
B) Alice Walker
D) Nikki Giovanni
23
Who made history in 2022 as the White House Press Secretary by being the 1st openly queer & black person in the position
D) Karoline Leavitt
C) Andrea Jackson
A) DeeDee Myers
B) Karine Jean-Pierre
24
Which Black LGBTQ+ author wrote "Giovanni's Room"?
D) Ralph Ellison
B) Langston Hughes
C) Richard Wright
A) James Baldwin
25
The Stonewall Riots, a pivotal event in LGBTQ+ history that was led by black trans women, happened in which year?
B) 1969
D) 1975
A) 1965
C) 1972
26
Which Black LGBTQ+ poet wrote "The Black Unicorn"?
B) Nikki Giovanni
D) Pat Parker
C) June Jordan
A) Audre Lorde
27
Which Black LGBTQ+ poet wrote "Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry"?
D) Pat Parker
A) Audre Lorde
C) June Jordan
B) Essex Hemphill
28
Which Black LGBTQ+ activist co-founded the Combahee River Collective?
A) Audre Lorde
D) Alice Walker
C) Angela Davis
B) Barbara Smith
29
What 1966 event showed the struggles of trans women & queer people of color against systemic violence and discrimination
C) Compton Cafeteria Riot
A) Black Cat Tavern Protests
B) Stonewall Riot
D) Cooper Donuts Riot
30
This film became the first LGBTQ+ film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards
Love, Simon
Moonlight
Closer
Brokeback Mountain
31
Which Black LGBTQ+ activist was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement, helping to organize the March on Washington?
C) Audre Lorde
B) James Baldwin
D) Marsha P. Johnson
A) Bayard Rustin
32
Who was the first Black trans woman to be elected to public office in the United States?
B) Danica Roem
D) Christine Hallquist
C) Sarah McBride
A) Andrea Jenkins
33
Which Black queer poet and social activist is known for their work in the Harlem Renaissance?
C) Audre Lorde
D) Bayard Rustin
B) Langston Hughes
A) James Baldwin
34
Known as the Queen of Bounce who holds Guinness World Record for most people twerking simultaneously (406 participants)?
A) RuPaul
D) Latrice Royale
C) Big Freedia
B) Miss Major
35
Who was the first openly gay Black man to be elected to public office in the U.S.?
D) Bruce Nugent
C) Keith St. John
B) Bayard Rustin
A) Harvey Milk
36
Which Black LGBTQ+ activist was a key figure in the Stonewall Riots?
A) Nikki Giovanni
C) Andrea Jackson
D) Bayard Rustin
B) Marsha P. Johnson
37
As a strong LGBTQ+ advocate and ally, she sang at the Democratic National Convention's LGBT Leadership Dinner in 2011
C) LaChanze
D) Heather Headley
B) Audra McDonald
A) Jennifer Holliday
38
Producing work with queer undertones, who was the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Maya Angelou
C) Alice Walker
B) Toni Morrison
D) Zora Neale Hurston
39
A prominent supporter of LGBTQ+ rights and marriage equality, who was the first Black woman to serve as a U.S. Senator?
A) Shirley Chisholm
D) Barbara Jordan
C) Kamala Harris
B) Carol Moseley Braun
40
This gay man founded Black AIDS Institute, the only HIV/AIDS think tank in the U.S. focused solely on African-Americans
B) Larry Kramer
A) James Baldwin
D) Phill Wilson
C) Essex Hemphill
41
Which openly gay black man won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Lola in Kinky Boots?
C) Tarell Alvin McCraney
A) Billy Porter
B) André De Shields
D) Colman Domingo
42
He was the first openly gay athlete to play in a major professional sports league in the U.S.
Wade Davis
Jason Collins
Michael Sam
Carl Nassib
43
Which Black LGBTQ+ activist co-founded the National Black Justice Coalition?
A) Phylis Webb
B) Keith Boykin
D) Sharon Lettman-Hicks
C) Sylvia Rivera
44
Which Black LGBTQ+ activist founded the House of LaBeija?
C) Crystal LaBeija
D) Angie Xtravaganza
A) Pepper LaBeija
B) Dorian LeBeija
45
What show aired 2018-2021 portrayed struggles & successes of Black & Latinx LGBTQ+ characters in the NYC ballroom scene
D) Werk
C) Disclosure
B) Kiki
A) Pose
