Exploring the Telefilm 'Gay': A Quiz Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

in his 1999 book The Trouble With Normal, gay author Michael Warner argued that same-sex marriage is an undesirable goal for the gay rights movement.

fruit as a slang term developed in London with the costermongers and later in Cockney rhyming slang and Polari, with most variations becoming pejorative against gay men who have since reclaimed usages.

Randy Shilts was the first openly gay man in the mainstream U.S. media.

the 2009 book Unfriendly Fire argues that bans on gays in the military were based on prejudices and fears, not empirical data.

the Veterans Benevolent Association, an early organization for gay American veterans, worked with the NAACP to end the issuance of the less-than-honorable blue discharge.

the killing of a gay Marvel superhero by Wolverine led to the creation of the novel Hero, whose protagonist is a gay teenager.

the author of Hollywood Undercover posed as an aspiring gay actor while investigating claims of a Church of Scientology "cure" for homosexuality.

Randi Weingarten, the openly gay president of the United Federation of Teachers, has been called one of the 25 most powerful women in New York City business.

R Family Vacations offered the first all-gay and lesbian family vacation packages where LGBT parents can bring their children.

drag entertainer José Sarria was the first openly gay candidate for public office in the United States, garnering some 6,000 votes in his 1961 campaign for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

African-American gay and transgender Ali Forney, once homeless himself, had a homeless LGBT youth center in New York City named after him for his work helping other youths.

gay screenwriter Marco Pennette was outed in front of his parents on the People's Choice Awards red carpet by a colleague who asked him about his boyfriend.

Kevin Killian's My Vocabulary Did This to Me won the American Book Award for poetry in 2008 and his Impossible Princess won the Lambda Literary Award as best gay erotic fiction in 2009.

Pullen Memorial Baptist Church is the first Baptist church in the Southern United States to have chosen an openly gay lead cleric.

LPI Media is the largest publisher of gay and lesbian material in the United States with its magazines alone having more than 8.2 million copies distributed each year.

Oscar-winning executive producer Randy Stone co-founded The Trevor Project, which provided the first 24-hour, toll-free suicide prevention hotline aimed at gay and questioning youth in the United States.

Exploring the Telefilm 'Gay': A Quiz

1 Who played the role of Dierenarts in the telemovie Gay?

2 Who played the role of Pascal in the telemovie Gay?

3 What role did Casper van Bohemen play in the telemovie Gay?

4 What role did Joris van de Sande play in the telemovie Gay?

5 What role did Serge-Henri Valcke play in the telemovie Gay?

6 homosexual (aka gay, lesbian), ________ and heterosexual (aka straight)." "Sexual attraction, behavior and identity may be incongruent.

7 Who played the role of Nol in the telemovie Gay?

8 What role did Adriaan Adriaanse play in the telemovie Gay?

9 What role did Dean Reinick play in the telemovie Gay?

10 The title of the 1938 French ballet Gaîté Parisienne ("Parisian Gaiety"), which became the 1941 ________ movie, The Gay Parisian, also illustrates this connotation.

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