Famous and Influential LGBTQ+ People Quiz
Famous and Influential LGBTQ+ People Quiz
In honour of Pride Month, test yourself with this quiz on famous, influential or iconic figures from LGBTQ+ history.
NB: many of these individuals may not have openly identified as LGBTQ+, nor would they have been labelled as such by their peers, due to it being a modern term. However, despite it being somewhat anachronistic, many are associated with LGBTQ+ by modern scholars.
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Which woman, who was only revealed to be homosexual in her obituary, was the first American female astronaut?
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Which American composer, conductor and social activist, famous for writing the score for the Musical “West Side Story” came out as gay after a failed marriage with his wife Felicia Montealegre?
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Who was the first professional football player to publicly come out as gay?
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What is the name of the female Czech tennis player who has won 18 Grand Slam Singles titles?
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Which Ancient Macedonian Leader, famous for leading the Greeks to conquer Egypt, and Persia, is believed to have had multiple homosexual relationships?
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Which reality television star and former Olympic champion, came out as trans in the 2010s before then going on to win Glamour’s “Woman of the Year” award?
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Which male Italian renaissance polymath, responsible for the fresco "The Last Supper", is believed to have had numerous relationships with other young men?
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What was the surname of the transgender siblings responsible for directing the Matrix films?
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Which Italian renaissance sculpturer, famous for works such as “David”, wrote intimate poems about the Roman patrician Tommaso dei Cavalieri?
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Who was the iconic lead singer of the band Queen, who tragically lost his life to HIV/AIDS-related complications in 1991?
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Which female Ancient Greek poet from Lesbos (the origin of the term "lesbian"), famous for writing “Ode to Aphrodite”, was believed to be homosexual?
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Who was the first transgener woman to have sex reassignment surgery in the United States?
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Which English actor, comedian and writer famous for his roles in "Jeeves and Wooster" and "Blackadder", in addition to hosting QI, is openly gay and a campaigner for LGBTQ+ rights and for the mental health charity Mind?
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Which famous English mathematician and cryptographer, responsible for cracking the enigma code and is referred to as the father of modern computing, was chemically castrated under then-UK law for his sexual orientation?
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“O Captain My Captain” was a poem written by which presumed bisexual or homosexual 19th-century American poet?
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Which American Politician, later assassinated, was the first openly gay man to be elected to office in California in 1977? He was also the subject of a 2008 biopic starring Sean Penn.
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“A Streetcar Named Desire” is a classic American play written by which man?
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Which American writer and activist, famous for works such as “Go Tell It on the Mountain”, was a campaigner for LGBTQ+ rights and for the civil rights movement?
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Best known for his role as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, which knighted actor was a co-founder of the English LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall?
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Which MP for Islington South and Finsbury was the UK’s first openly gay politician, having come out in 1984?
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What is the stage name of the famous English singer and pianist born Reginald Dwight, famous for hits such as “Your Song”? He is an avid campaigner for LGBTQ+ rights and against HIV/AIDS.
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Known for his epigrams, plays and poems, which Irish playwright was sentenced in the 1890s to two years of manual labour for gross indecency (for consensual homosexual acts)?
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What is the name of the current CEO of Apple, who is openly gay and a prominent supporter of LGBTQ+ rights?
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Malcolm Michaels Jr, born in 1945, a prominent American gay liberation activist, drag-queen, and prominent figure in the Stonewall riots, goes by what other name?
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Famous for her post-colonial surrealist Mexican folk art, which bisexual artist also had an association with the Mexican Communist Party?
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Which famous bisexual English female essayist and novelist, writer of Mrs Daloway and To The Lighthouse, pioneered women’s rights?
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Which woman, who was only revealed to be homosexual in her obituary, was the first American female astronaut?Sally Ride
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Which American composer, conductor and social activist, famous for writing the score for the Musical “West Side Story” came out as gay after a failed marriage with his wife Felicia Montealegre?Leonard Bernstein
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Who was the first professional football player to publicly come out as gay?Justin Fashanu
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What is the name of the female Czech tennis player who has won 18 Grand Slam Singles titles?Martina Navratilova
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Which Ancient Macedonian Leader, famous for leading the Greeks to conquer Egypt, and Persia, is believed to have had multiple homosexual relationships?Alexander the Great
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Which reality television star and former Olympic champion, came out as trans in the 2010s before then going on to win Glamour’s “Woman of the Year” award?Caitlyn Jenner
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Which male Italian renaissance polymath, responsible for the fresco "The Last Supper", is believed to have had numerous relationships with other young men?Leonardo da Vinci
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What was the surname of the transgender siblings responsible for directing the Matrix films?Wachowski
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Which Italian renaissance sculpturer, famous for works such as “David”, wrote intimate poems about the Roman patrician Tommaso dei Cavalieri?Michelangelo
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Who was the iconic lead singer of the band Queen, who tragically lost his life to HIV/AIDS-related complications in 1991?Freddie Mercury
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Which female Ancient Greek poet from Lesbos (the origin of the term "lesbian"), famous for writing “Ode to Aphrodite”, was believed to be homosexual?Sappho
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Who was the first transgener woman to have sex reassignment surgery in the United States?Christine Jorgensen
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Which English actor, comedian and writer famous for his roles in "Jeeves and Wooster" and "Blackadder", in addition to hosting QI, is openly gay and a campaigner for LGBTQ+ rights and for the mental health charity Mind?fry
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Which famous English mathematician and cryptographer, responsible for cracking the enigma code and is referred to as the father of modern computing, was chemically castrated under then-UK law for his sexual orientation?Alan Turing
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“O Captain My Captain” was a poem written by which presumed bisexual or homosexual 19th-century American poet?Walt Whitman
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Which American Politician, later assassinated, was the first openly gay man to be elected to office in California in 1977? He was also the subject of a 2008 biopic starring Sean Penn.Harvey Milk
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“A Streetcar Named Desire” is a classic American play written by which man?Tennessee Williams
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Which American writer and activist, famous for works such as “Go Tell It on the Mountain”, was a campaigner for LGBTQ+ rights and for the civil rights movement?James Baldwin
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Best known for his role as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, which knighted actor was a co-founder of the English LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall?Sir Ian McKellen
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Which MP for Islington South and Finsbury was the UK’s first openly gay politician, having come out in 1984?Chris Smith
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What is the stage name of the famous English singer and pianist born Reginald Dwight, famous for hits such as “Your Song”? He is an avid campaigner for LGBTQ+ rights and against HIV/AIDS.Elton John
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Known for his epigrams, plays and poems, which Irish playwright was sentenced in the 1890s to two years of manual labour for gross indecency (for consensual homosexual acts)?Oscar Wilde
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What is the name of the current CEO of Apple, who is openly gay and a prominent supporter of LGBTQ+ rights?Tim Cook
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Malcolm Michaels Jr, born in 1945, a prominent American gay liberation activist, drag-queen, and prominent figure in the Stonewall riots, goes by what other name?Marsha P. Johnson
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Famous for her post-colonial surrealist Mexican folk art, which bisexual artist also had an association with the Mexican Communist Party?Frida Kahlo
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Which famous bisexual English female essayist and novelist, writer of Mrs Daloway and To The Lighthouse, pioneered women’s rights?Virginia Woolf
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