Nottinghamshire’s Rainbow Heritage

the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans

History Project for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire 

 

 

 

Bassetlaw

Broxtowe

Nottingham

Rushcliffe

Sherwood

Q1) Gay Victorian MP Lord Arthur Clinton lived at which stately home?

 

a) Clumber Park
b) The Tower of London
c) Cloppa Castle


Q2)  Which of these American  LGBT actors are descended from Bassetlaw's Pilgrim Fathers?

 

 

a)  Anthony Perkins
b)  Katherine Hepburn
c)  David Hyde Pierce

 

 

 

 

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Q1)  Which D. H. Lawrence novel was based on E. M. Forster's story of a gay aristocrat falling for a gay gardener?

 

a)  Sons and Lovers
b)  Lady Chatterley's Lover
c)  The Rainbow

 

Q2)  Which "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" poet owned Newstead Abbey?

 


a)  Tennyson
b)  Chaucer
c)  Byron

 

 

 

 

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Q1)  Victoria Centre flats in Nottingham City Centre has which nickname based on the high percentage of LGBT tenants?

 

a)  Bland Heights
b)  Fairy Towers
c)  The Asbo Block


Q2) Gregory Woods is the UK's first Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies at which university?

 

a)  Nottingham Trent University
b)  University of Nottingham
c)  New College Nottingham

 

 

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Q1)  Frank Miles of Bingham was the first boyfriend of which famous Irish writer?

 

a)  Paul O'Grady
b)  Graham Norton
c)  Oscar Wilde

 

Q2)  Which Nottingham Forest and Nottingham County player is the only professional footballer to come out?

 

a)  Justin Fashanu
b)  Nigel Clough
c)  Ashley Cole

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Q1)  Southwell-born Rob Newton was the only "out" track athlete at the 2004 Athens Olympics. In which event did he compete?

 

a)  parallel bars
b)  springboard diving
c)  hurdles


Q2) Which allegedly gay king went in search of Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest?


a)  Charles II
b)  Macbeth
c)  Richard the Lionheart

  

  

  

  

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