Ealdwic Pride Trivia Questions

I happend to do a short trivia at this years Ealdwic Pride. Since the awesome DJ Sanneke DeJaegher keept the crowed dancing and some people my have missed a question or a answer here is my full list.

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Round one

    • Q.: What country was the first to be led by an openly LGBT person?
    • A.: Iceland, led by Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir
    • Q.: What is Lesbian bed death?
    • A.: Lesbian bed death is a term coined by sociologist Pepper Schwartz in her 1983 book American Couples. According to Schwartz, lesbian couples in committed relationships have less sex than any other type of couple, and they generally experience less sexual intimacy the longer the relationship last. The study has been criticized by the lesbian community and some psychologists as popular myth. ((http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_bed_death))
    • Q.: What Greek letter is used as symbol for some gay and lesbian activism groups?
    • A.: Lambda
    • Q.: What is the date of the (national) Coming Out Day?
    • A.: October 11
    • Q.: Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 13087, banning the government from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, in what year?
    • A.: 1998
    • Q.: The death of what legendary actor and closeted gay man from AIDS in 1985 brought national attention to the disease?
    • A.: Rock Hudson
    • Q.: In which country did the first large scale gay right movement get started?
    • A.: German activists began organizing in the 1860s and had formed an organization dedicated to advancing gay rights, which had over 100,000 members by the early twentieth century.
    • Q.: How did the Nazis mark homosexuals in the concentration camps in World War 2?
    • A.: The had to wear a pink triangle.
    • Q.: What lesbian actor and director made her major movie debut in the 1976 film Taxi Driver?
    • A.: Jodie Foster
    • Q.: Who designed the first rainbow flag for the pride parade?
    • A.: Gilbert Baker

Round two

    • Q.: What color was in the first rainbow flag, that is missing now?
    • A.: Hot pink, standing for sexuality, mass-production printer as unable to print that color.
    • Q.: What African country has legalized same sex marriage?
    • A.: South Africa since 2006
    • Q.: Which President made it illegal for the US Government to employ gay and lesbian people?
    • A.: Dwight D. Eisenhower, in Executive Order 10450 in 1953. There was fear that they could be blackmailed in to committing treason. No such incident is known to have occurred, but these laws were not repealed until 1975 and federal security clearances were not permitted to gays and lesbians until 1995.
    • Q.: Martin Luther King’s right-hand man and organizer of the 1963 March on Washington kept in the background because he was gay and he did not want to jeopardize the civil rights movement. What was his name?
    • A.: Bayard Rustin. There is a film about him called Brother Outsider.
    • Q.: What is a Boston Marriage?
    • A.: A long-term co-habiting relationship between two women around 1800.
    • Q.: When were the Stonewall riots?
    • A.: 1969
    • Q.: What was AIDS called?
    • A.: GRID (Gay Related Immunodeficiency Disorder) or The Gay Cancer.
    • Q.: What famous football player became the first professional athlete to to come out as homosexual?
    • A.: David Kopay, running-back of the Forty-Niners, Lions, and Redskins
    • Q.: Same-sex relationships were common in Ancient Greece. What elite military unit was formed of couples, chosen to fight side-by-side in combat, during the fourth century BCE?
    • A.: Sacred Band of Thebes. The Sacred Band of Thebes was organized in 378 BCE by the Theban commander Gorgidas. 150 couples
    • Q.: What was the first country in the world to legalize same sex marriage?
    • A.: The Netherlands. The law came into effect on 1 April 2001. The law was amended to state that “Marriage is possible between two persons of different or same sex.” As of April 2011, 15,000 gay couples have married in the Netherlands.