LGBT History Quiz For Celebrants

Radclyffe hall published The Well of Loneliness in 1928. Ban only lifted in 1943 after Hall's death buy which time it was translated into 14 languages and sold over 1000000 copies each year! (NB I've read it and the only "lesbian' bit i can see is..."They spent the night as husband and wife" ) Most lesbians over 45 have heard of it as it was the only book available for many years in libraries!!

In October 2014, Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, publicly announced that he is gay. He expressed his pride in his sexual orientation and expressed his hope that his openness would inspire others to also embrace their identity without fear of discrimination. Therefore, the statement is true.

The Stonewall Inn was raided by Police (New York Greenwich). In June 1969 it was illegal to sell alcohol to homosexuals and police raids were common. This time they fought back and the five day rebellion is credited with sparking today's gay rights movement

Saphho's wee hoose in Lesbos - Sorry - no prizes!!

Founded The metropolitan Community Church. First service in 1968 attended by 12 people. Troy was excommunicated from the Pentecostal Church for refusing to denounce his homosexuality.

Chemically castrated after the war, he ended his own life eating an apple laced with poison. The UK government gave a posthumous apology in December 2013

1884-1962 She was forced into the public arena after her husband's bout with polio in 1921. Became an outspoken advocate for the oppressed. met journalist Lorna Hickok in 1932. Lorna moved in in 1941 for four years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Cossey

1882-1941 Most members were lesbian, gay or bisexual. Married to a man and also had 3 year romantic relationship with Vita Sackville-West

Pink Triangle for Male Homosexuals. 5-15000 gay men and women were exterminated. www.homomonument.nl/index.htm
Some people use this symbolism in jewellery and badges to recognise each other even today.
Jewish homosexuals had a yellow and pink combo.
Black Triangle for 'asocials'
By the way....The purple triangle was a concentration camp badge used by the Nazis to identify Bibelforscher (the German name for Jehovah's Witnesses and other Bible Students congregations) in Nazi Germany. A small number of Adventists, Baptists and pacifists (less than one percent) were also identified by the badge.

True until 2003 when Employment Equality Regulations were introduced in the UK

For men yes, not for women because Queen Victoria said that women would never do such a thing and We don't want to give them any ideas.....
Also it's a wee bit more complicated than that...see notes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Justice_(Scotland)_Act_1980

England and Wales 2005 and Scotland 2009

Probably all of these have a grain of truth though no one has decided to fund extensive research. However, it is a very common phenomenon. Lots of famous people talk about it publicly and on the other side of the coin, people like Anne Heche have come out as straight after long term relationships with women.

1883-1946 Educated at Cambridge, he gained international fame for his economic theories. His best selling work of 1919 was The Economic Consequences of the Peach which argued for Europe's economic unity

The AIDS Memorial Quilt started in 1985 at the Harvey Milk Candlelight March in San Francisco. Today the quilt has 40000 panels....

Famous composer of The Nutcracker Suite and 1812 overture as well as Swan Lake

1898 - 1936 when he was executed by death squad to rid the country of liberals

1938-1993 Defected in 1961. World record for the greatest number of curtain calls (with DAME Margot Fonteyn)

All celebrants need is two people who love each other and the Marriage Schedule in their hand before the ceremony..... leave the gender checks to the Registrar

c427-347 Aristotle was his pupil. Disillusioned by the corruption and injustices he saw in politics, he and his lover Dion found the academy in 387bc teaching ethics, science, mathematics, astronomy and politics. Nothing new under the sun eh!!?

Image is of Transgender Pride Flag
Jan Morris, CBE, FRSL (born James Humphrey Morris, 2 October 1926) is a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy (1968–78), a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City.

Born in England of an English mother and Welsh father, Morris was educated at Lancing College, West Sussex, and Christ Church, Oxford, and considers herself Welsh. She is a trans woman and was published under her birth name until 1972, when she transitioned from living as male to living as female.

First proposed for the 1978 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. it became nationally known after a 1988 lawsuit in which a gay man living in West Hollywood successfully fought his landlords' attempts to prevent him flying it from his apartment balcony

And 10000000s of others see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Gay_writers

1475-1504 Also wrote over 300 poems many dedicated to his love, Roman nobleman Tommaso Cavalieri.

Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas met in paris in 1907 and became the best known lesbian couple of their time. In her short story Miss Furr and Miss Keene, Stein used the word gay to mean homosexual - the first time in print. Stonewall adopted it in the70s as a acronym for "Good As YOU"

Born 1956 the greatest woman tennis player of all time There is a second one in the answers - Rudy Galindo ice Skater. Very risky thing to do in the sports field even today.

1879 - 1970 Famous novels Room With a View and Howard's End. Only gay themed novel Maurice in 1914 but didn't allow it to be published during his lifetime as he was reluctant to publicise his homosexuality

Authorised King James version of the Bible was called after this long serving monarch

The first gay games were helod in August 1982 in San Francisco and organised by decathlete Tom Waddell. Originally called the gay Olympics, the event had to change its name when the US Olympic Committee refused to allow it to be associated to other events - including Rat Olympics, Dog Olympics, and Crab Cooking Olympics - and obtained a court order to prohibit usage by the Gay Games. The case went all the way to the US Supreme Court which ruled it could not be used in association with the word gay.

Seventeen countries have approved the freedom to marry for same-sex couples nationwide (Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Canada, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Iceland, Argentina, Denmark, France, Brazil, Uruguay, New Zealand, Britain, and Luxembourg), while two others have regional or court-directed provisions enabling same-sex couples to share in the freedom to marry (Mexico and the United States). Many other countries provide some protections for such couples. As more and more countries and parts of the United States win the freedom to marry, we see that families are helped, and communities and countries made stronger, by protecting all loving committed couples. See www.freedomtomarry.org for updates

1968! is the answer

Latest Office of National Statistics research with very large sample (for a change) say 49% of LGBT people are in professional and managerial positions. Interestingly Gareth Thomas, professional rugby player, announced publicly that he was gay in 2009. In December 2009 Thomas was voted top of the Pink List in 2010 of the 101 most influential gay people in the UK and he received Stonewall’s Hero of the Year award in October 2010. Thomas is a supporter of Childline and is co-founder of Distinct Management and PR with his manager Emanuele Palladino.