Gay trivia

Alexander Wood, a merchant and magistrate, was checking a rape case in A woman who claimed to have been raped, did not know who her attacker was but did state that she scratched the genitals of her attacker. Wood inspected the genitals of a number of suspects in order to try and find the attacker. It was suggested that the rape did not occur, the victim did not exist, and that Wood had made the whole thing up in arrange to satisfy his lgbtq+ urges. There was no evidence that Wood acted inappropriately; however, he was ridiculed and given the nickname "Molly Wood." At the time, "Molly" was a derogatory term for homosexual men.

Years later, Wood purchased land that was given the nickname "Molly Wood's Bush" and this area is now part of Toronto's same-sex attracted village. In , the business association for the area erected a statue of Alexander Wood and a beer was named for him. A act based on Wood's experience was launched in called "Molly Wood".

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1. Who played Hefina Headon, a member of the strike committee, in the British film Pride?
2. In terms of percentage, which city has the uppermost LGBT population in the United States?





3. In , which European country became the first in the planet to have an openly gay person elected as head of government?
4. What would you most famously associate with American artist and gay rights activist Gilbert Baker?
5. Name the first openly gay elected official in the history of California, who was played in a American biographical clip by Sean Penn?
6. Which rugby player came out as gay in December and received Stonewall’s Hero of the Year award the next year?
7. The Rainbow List, a list of the most influential openly LGBT individuals in the UK, is published annually in which British national Sunday newspaper?
8. In , which state became the first to establish same-sex marriage by law?
9. Which city is generally agreed to be the unofficial "gay capital" of the UK?
10. What was the professional name of the first transgender person to win the Eurovision Lyric Contest?
11. In , which soap introduced its first openly gay character, Sean Myerson, the landlord of the now cl
    

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