Gay Trivia by Broadway Buddy

[Une retranscription de S-TEK * An S-TEK reprint]

A game of forty questions anyone? The answers are at the end of the file.

  1. Who plays Steve Carrington on Dynasty?
  2. According to the Cole Porter song, what should Gabriel do?
  3. Who is writer Mary Elizabeth Smith better known as?
  4. Who headed the National Gay Task Force from 1983 until 1986?
  5. What gay playwright died from choking on a bottlecap?
  6. Who originally started filming "Annie Get Your Gun" before being replaced by Betty Hutton?
  7. Why was the father in the play "Little Murders" upset?
  8. What was the name of the lead character in "Torch Song Trilogy"?
  9. What is the southernmost gay mecca in the continental United States?
  10. The Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop is located near the intersection of what two streets?
  11. Hitler wiped out the gay members of the Nazi Party in what massacre?
  12. What was the name of the nasty crone on a bicycle in "The Wizard of Oz"?
  13. Who thanked his male lover during the 1982 Tony Awards ceremony?
  14. How many men died in the Everard Baths fire?
  15. The play "The Drag" was written by Jane Mast who was better known as whom?
  16. According to Miss Manners, what does one say when introduced to a gay couple?
  17. Wally Cox shared an apartment for many years with what actor?
  18. Why do gay men have mustaches?
  19. How much does a beer cost at The Saint?
  20. Lou Reed recorded the hit song "Take A Walk On The Wild Side". What was it about?
  21. What dance starts with "Just a jump to the left, then a step to the right"?
  22. In what film did Bette Davis say "What a dump!"?
  23. Who was the last Presidential liaison to the gay community?
  24. Cologne and Izod shirts were against the dress code at what after-hours club in New York?
  25. What Broadway play about the AIDS crisis flopped after 9 performances in May 1987?
  26. As of 1987, how long have Jack Wrangler and Margaret Whiting lived together?
  27. What does "C & BT" mean in a gay personal ad?
  28. Who played Raquel Welch's lover in "Myra Breckenridge"?
  29. What was the title of the English dubbed version of "La Cage Aux Folles"?
  30. In New York City, when is Gay Pride Day always observed?
  31. Who told Hedda Hopper that he avoided the draft by kissing the medic?
  32. What liquor company always sponsers the New York City Gay Mens' Chorus?
  33. How many buttons are on the fly of a pair of Levi 501s?
  34. What bar was located at the corner of Washington and Little West 12th Streets?
  35. What gay newspaper was published in Long Island until 1986?
  36. Below what street does Greenwich Village begin?
  37. Where was the Continental Baths located?
  38. Who was the first male centerfold in Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1972?
  39. Monday's child is "full of grace". What is the "child that's born on the Sabbath day"?
  40. What is painted on Fifth Avenue from Columbus Circle to Washington Square on the last Sunday in June?

ANSWERS

  1. Jack Coleman
  2. Blow
  3. Liz Smith
  4. Ginny Apuzzo
  5. Tennessee Williams
  6. Judy Garland
  7. His son was light in his loafers
  8. Arnold Beckhoff
  9. Key West
  10. Christopher & Gay
  11. The Night of the Long Knives
  12. Elvira Gultch
  13. John Glines, producer of "Torch Song Trilogy"
  14. 19
  15. Mae West
  16. "How do you do?" "How do you do?"
  17. Marlon Brando
  18. To hide the stretch marks
  19. Nothing
  20. Drag queens
  21. The Time Warp
  22. "Beyond the Forest"
  23. Midge Costanza
  24. The Mine Shaft
  25. Harvey Fierstein's "Safe Sex"
  26. Eight years
  27. Cock and ball torture
  28. Farrah Fawcett
  29. Birds of a Feather
  30. The last Sunday in June
  31. James Dean
  32. Stolichnaya Vodka
  33. Four
  34. The Mine Shaft
  35. The Connection
  36. 14th Street
  37. The Ansonia (Broadway & 73rd Street)
  38. Burt Reynolds
  39. "Fair and wise and good and gay".
  40. A Lavender stripe.

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