1. Who wants to be an LGBTaire?
At this point, you need to put delegates into groups, 4 groups are needed, so it should be groups of 4 – 5, depending on numbers. Give the team names of famous LGBT people – Suggestions are: Dusty Springfield (lesbian singer in the 60s, son of a preacher man, you don’t have to say you love me), Graham Norton (Gay Comedian, TV Presenter), Nadia Almada (Big Brother contestant in 2004, first trans woman to enter the BB House), Angelina Jolie (Bisexual Hollywood actress – tombraider, girl interrupted), Stephen Fry (Gay British writer, actor, comedian and presenter) Rudy Galindo (Gay American ice-skater), Jean-Paul Gaultier (Gay French fashion designer and TV presenter) Martina Navratilova (lesbian tennis player), Gok Wan (gay fashion designer and presenter), Alice Walker (bisexual author of the colour purple and you can’t keep a good woman down) and Pete Wentz (bisexual lead singer of Fall out Boy). The rules of the game are on the next slide.

2. Rules of the Game Your team has to answer 5 questions on LGBT History.
You have 3 lifelines:
1 – Phone a committee member – This is where you have the opportunity to ask a member of the National LGBT Committee what they think the answer is
2 – 50/50 – We will take away 2 of the 4 possible answers, narrowing down the choice of answers
3 – Ask the audience – We will ask the audience which answer they think is right by a show of hands
Each group will have to answer up to 5 questions on LGBT History. These questions will be about the law, defining moments in history, famous LGBT people and NUS LGBT. There are 4 possible answers, labelled A-D and they have to pick as a team which one they think is right. Talk them through the 3 lifelines, introduce the committee member in the room and explain to the audience that if the group playing would like to ask the audience, then they will need to do a show of hands to identify which one they think is the answer – you will need to call out A to D if this is a lifeline a group picks.

3. Question 1 – What month is LGBT History Month?
November
December
January
February

4. Question 2 - What year was homosexuality legalised in England?
1966
1967
1968
1969

5. Question 3 – What is the name of the first trans mayor in the UK, who became Mayor of Cambridge in 2007?
Sheila Dixon
Ray Mallon
Steve Bullock
Jenny Bailey

6. Question 4 – When did lesbians become legally entitled to IVF Treatment?
May 1998
June 2007
June 2009
May 2008

7. Question 5 – In what year did the age of consent become equal for gay men, lesbians and heterosexuals, making the age of consent finally 16 for all?
A) 1997
B) 1999
C) 2000
D) 2001

8. David Walliams Matt Lucas Julian Clary Stephen Fry
Question 6 – What is the name of the comedian who is the only gay man in the village?
David Walliams
Matt Lucas
Julian Clary
Stephen Fry

9. Question 7- In what year were same sex couples first allowed to adopt in the UK?
2000
2001
2002
2003

10. Question 8 – What was the maximum imprisonment sentence for homosexuality in India until July this year?
1 year
5 years
10 years
Life

11. Question 9 – What ratio of lesbian and bisexual women say they have been ignored by a healthcare worker when they came out to them?
1 in 30
1 in 20
1 in 10
1 in 5

12. Question 10 – What, out of the following 4 things, do trans people NOT have the right to?
Change their name by deed poll
Be legally protected from hate crime
Not be discriminated against in the workplace or sacked unfairly for being trans
Have their gender altered on identification such as passports and driving licences

13. Question 11 – Which of the following events has NOT been blamed on homosexuals?
Hurricane Katrina
The AIDS Epidemic
Foot and Mouth Disease
The Credit Crunch

14. Question 12 – Where did the Stonewall Riots take place?
San Francisco
New York
Boston
Los Angeles

15. Slap (make up) Carsey (toilet) Naff (rubbish) Blub (cry)
Question 13 – Polari was a secret language used by homosexuals to avoid detection. Which of these words does NOT originate from this language?
Slap (make up)
Carsey (toilet)
Naff (rubbish)
Blub (cry)

16. Question 14 – In the 1999 ‘Breaking the Chain’ Report, what percentage of respondents stated they had been a victim of hate crime?
44%
55%
66%
77%

17. Question 15 – In what year was Action for Lesbian Parents founded?
1965
1975
1985
1995

18. Question 16 – Who won an Oscar for playing a gay man dying in the film Philadelphia?
Tom Hanks
Kevin Kline
Robin Williams
Dustin Hoffman

19. Question 17 – The Wolfenden Report, which recommended that homosexuality be decriminalised, was published how many years before homosexuality was actually decriminalised? 1 5 10 15

20. Question 18 – What is the name of the only out lesbian MP in the UK?
Angela Eagle
Siobhan McDonagh
Joan Ryan
Margaret Moran

21. Question 19 – In what year did NUS LGB become NUS LGBT?
2003
2004
2005
2006

22. Question 20 – In at least how many countries in the world are same-sex relationships criminalised?35 40 70 85