50+ Fun Pride Month Trivia Questions And Answers 2023

Pride quiz questions and answers reveal fun facts about the LGBT community. In 2023, biggest festivals are organized worldwide.

1. Question: When did Pride Month become a thing?

• Answer: June 1970

2. Question: Which country was the first to lawfully establish same-gender marriage?

• Answer: The Netherlands

3. Question: How many colors are there in a Pride Flag?

• Answer: Eight (hot pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo, and violet)

4. Question: Who was the first openly gay Black actor to win an Emmy?

• Answer: Billy Porter

5. Question: Where was the Stonewall Inn Located?

• Answer: Greenwich Village, New York City

6. Question: When did the Stonewall Riot take place?

• Answer: June 28, 1969.

7. Question: Why is June selected to be the pride month?

• Answer: Pride Month is celebrated in June to honor the June 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan

8. Question: In the United States, when is the "National Coming Out Day" celebrated?

• Answer: October 11

9. Question: Which female activist is popularly regarded as "The Mother Of Pride"?

• Answer: Brenda Howard

10. Question: How many years was Oscar Wilde sentenced behind bars for the crime of "Homosexuality?"

• Answer: For 2 years

11. Question: What does the orange color in Pride Flag represent?

• Answer: Healing

12. Question: Which country has the record of holding the largest pride parade?

• Answer: Brazil

13. Question: Who designed the pride flag?

• Answer: Gilbert Baker

14. Question: When was the Rainbow Pride Flag first used?

• Answer: June 25, 1978

15. Question: Where was the Rainbow Pride Flag first used?

• Answer: San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade

16. Question: The activist group Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) was led by which activists?

• Answer: Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson

17. Question: Which television show featured the largest number of the transgender cast in history?

• Answer: Pose (2018 - 2021)

18. Question: Which state became the first to legalize civil unions for same-sex couples?

• Answer: Vermont

19. Question: Which United States of America government employee was fired for being openly gay?

• Answer: Frank Kameny

20. Question: The activist group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was founded by which activist?

• Answer: Larry Kramer

21. Question: When was the first protest for gay and lesbian rights?

• Answer: July 4, 1965

22. Question: Where was the first protest for gay and lesbian rights?

• Answer: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

23. Question: Which of the following show aired the first-ever same-sex marriage on American television?

• Answer: Friends

24. Question: What does the Yellow color in Pride Flag represent?

• Answer: Sunlight

25. Question: What does the Violet color in Pride Flag represent?

• Answer: Spirit

26. Question: In which year did the first legal same-sex marriage take place in the United States?

• Answer: 2004

27. Question: Which American president was the first to officially recognize Pride Month?

• Answer: Bill Clinton

28. Question: Which was the first American novel to touch on the subject of homosexuality?

• Answer: Joseph and His Friend

29: Question: Who is the first openly gay CEO of a prominent multinational company?

• Answer: Tim Cook (Apple)

30. Question: How many countries have legalized same-sex marriage?

• Answer: 30

31. Question: For most of the 20th century, many researchers often associated homosexuality with what?

• Answer: Upbringing

32. Question: Maureen Colquhoun became the first openly gay member of the parliament of the United Kingdom in 1974 when she came out as what?

• Answer: A Lesbian

33. Question: Which was the first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage in 2019?

• Answer: Taiwan

34. Question: When did the first same-sex marriage take place in the United Kingdom?

• Answer: 2014

35. Question: During WWI, gay people were required to put on which symbol in Nazi concentration camps?

• Answer: A Pink Triangle

36. Question: Which country became the first one in the world to elect an openly gay politician as head of government?

• Answer: Iceland

37. Question: Which three colors make up the Bisexual Pride Flag?

• Answer: Pink, Purple, and Blue

38. Question: What year was homosexuality decriminalized in the UK?

• Answer: 1967

39. Question: Which UK city is generally considered to be the unofficial Gay capital in the country?

• Answer: Brighton and Hove

40. Question: Who was the first-ever winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race?

• Answer: BeBe Zahara Benet

41. Question: The Asexual Pride flag is composed of what color stripes?

• Answer: Black, Grey, White, and Purple

42. Question; Which dance craze made mainstream by gay icon Madonna originated in the LGBT+ underground ball culture?

• Answer: Vogue (Dance)

43. Question: In 2016, which British Olympic team featured the first married, same-sex couple winning a gold medal?

• Answer: Hockey

44. Question: Who are the same-sex couple winning a gold medal with the British Olympic Hockey team in 2016?

• Answer: Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh

45. Question: Who was the first openly gay person to win an Oscar?

• Answer: Sir John Gielgud

46. Question: Which oasis in early modern Egypt was a hotspot of homosexuality in Egypt?

• Answer: Siwa Oasis

47. Question: Under its new Penal Code of 1791, which European country was the first to decriminalize homosexuality?

• Answer: France

48. Question: In what year did the American Psychological Association remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders?

• Answer: 1973

49. Question: Which gay African-American author wrote: "The Fire Next Time?"

• Answer: James Baldwin

50. Question: In 2014, this Canadian city hosted the WorldPride event, marking the first time a North American city held the event. What lucky city was that?

• Answer: Toronto

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# Why do we celebrate Pride Month?

• Answer: Pride month is celebrated annually in June to honor the movement of LGBTQ+ rights and culture. The month is being celebrated starting from 1970.
  The first pride month was celebrated to mark the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riot and the tradition has continued since.

# How to celebrate Pride Month at work?

• Answer: Pride Month can be celebrated at the workplace by encouraging employees to share their pronouns, attending a workshop about the LGBTQ+ community, creating virtual or physical rainbow backdrops for the workplace, or simply donating to LGBTQ+ activist organizations.

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