LGBTQ+ History Month 2021 - BNP Paribas UK

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Question 1

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When were homosexual acts in private between two men, aged 21 and over, allowed in English and Welsh law (but not in the Navy or Armed Forces)?
Answer
  • 1920
  • 1965
  • 1967

Question 2

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When the decriminalisation of homosexuality was extended to Scotland and the Northern Ireland?
Answer
  • Both in 1980.
  • Scotland same year as England and Wales (1967), Northern Ireland only in 1982.
  • Scotland in 1980, Northern Ireland in 1976.
  • Scotland in 1980, Northern Ireland in 1982.

Question 3

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Who was the first lesbian MP in the UK out to the public?
Answer
  • Justine Greening – 2016
  • Maureen Morfydd Colquhoun - 1974
  • Mhairi Black – 2015

Question 4

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Which Arab country was the first to launch the first gay pride week?
Answer
  • Syria
  • Jordan
  • Lebanon

Question 5

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Which country has the largest rainbow Parliament in the world, going by the percentage of LGBTQ MPs?
Answer
  • United Kingdom
  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • Latvia

Question 6

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Which city has the largest Gay Pride Parade globally, according to existing records?
Answer
  • New York
  • Mexico City
  • Bogota
  • Sao Paulo

Question 7

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Which US TV series broke ground as the first sitcom in broadcast television with a gay main character in the 1990s?
Answer
  • LA Law
  • Will & Grace
  • Frasier
  • Full House

Question 8

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Which British soap opera was the first to portray a kiss between a gay couple?
Answer
  • Brookside
  • The Young and the Restless
  • EastEnders

Question 9

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Which actress gained an Academy Awards for her role as a transgender woman?
Answer
  • Dame Helen Mirren
  • Felicity Huffman
  • Hilary Swank

Question 10

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Which documentary deals with the ballroom culture and transgender community of late 1980s New York City?
Answer
  • Pose
  • Parting Glances
  • Paris is Burning
  • Midnight Cowgirls

Question 11

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Which controversial 1940s report found 37% of males and 13% of females in the US then had had at least some overt homosexual experience?
Answer
  • The McNamara Report
  • The Bourne Report
  • The Kinsey Report
  • Alfred's Behavioural Report

Question 12

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And what was the proportion of males Kinsey found in the 1940s to be "more or less exclusively homosexual" for at least three years?
Answer
  • 4%
  • 21%
  • 10%

Question 13

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What were the Stonewall Inn riots main original motivator?
Answer
  • Police raids on gay bars
  • Police harassment of LGBTQ people
  • The accidental killing of a gay man

Question 14

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Who was the first Olympic athlete out before the competition?
Answer
  • US diver Greg Louganis
  • English figure skater John Curry
  • Brazilian gymnast Diego Hypólito
  • English professional boxer Nicola Adams

Question 15

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When was homosexuality decriminalised in the Vatican
Answer
  • 1959
  • Circa 1700
  • 1890
  • It never was.
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