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1. King Ludwig II of Bavaria had a penchant for handsome men and this fact was not wasted on the noted composer, Richard Wagner, who used this knowledge to compose operas around some Aryan male folk heroes and attract the good King's wallet at the same time. The results were some of the finest operas composed. King Ludwig II also built three fairy-tale castles, which along with his support of the arts, helped to bankrupt Bavaria. Which of these was NOT one of King Ludwig's Castles?
2. Alexander the Great often tops lists of notable gay men. It was common at the time for aristocratic Greek men to "love" boys, as well as have women for sexual and procreative purposes. Alexander the Great was no exception, but his love for Hephaestion was so great that, when Hephaestion died, Alexander ordered the physician who failed to save him to be crucified. Of what was he king?
3. Noted author Willa Cather took great pains to hide her private life. She ordered her private correspondence between Isabell McClung and her burned. Also, her will stipulated that her letters were never to be quoted. She further made sure that her official biography was written by the person who succeeded McClung as her lover, Edith Lewis. Which of the following was not written by Willa Cather?
4. Born in 1819 on Long Island, one of this poet's greatest works is a collection of poems entitled "Leaves of Grass". Any doubt of his sexual orientation would be removed by reading "Calamus", a collection within "Leaves of Grass". Who was this poet?
5. In 1964, the tomb of two manicurists, Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep, was found in the necropolis of Saqqara. Drawings showed two men in an embrace as well as an indication they were joined as one. This Old Kingdom tomb was near the pyramid of Unas. In which modern country would this be?
6. Ernst Roehm, working for Adolf Hitler, created, assembled, and trained the notorious "Storm Troopers" (Sturmabteilung, or SA), or "Brownshirts" as they were also known. Since the Treaty of Versailles limited the German Army to 100,000 men, Hitler formed this paramilitary group that was eventually supplanted by the SS. By 1934, the ranks of the SA had grown to 4.5 million men. There was also the feeling that the "special" training included some homoerotic acts, such as mutual soaping in the showers, and Himmler and others convinced Hitler that Roehm, a homosexual himself, and his "homosexual army" could overthrow Hitler. Hitler ordered the arrest of Roehm and others in what was to become known as what?
7. Rudolf Nureyev, born in 1938, educated at the Leningrad Ballet school, was often the dance partner of Margot Fonteyn. Having been already more or less "outed" by "The Celebrity Register" no one really noticed the statement in David Kopay's autobiography, a best seller, that Nureyev often visited gay bars. Sadly, he died in Paris in 1993, of AIDS. After he defected to the west, he became a citizen of a western country. Was it the United States of America?
8. Károly Mária Kertbeny (1824-1882) is best known for having coined this word when living in Berlin. He later used it and a related word in two pamphlets demanding that penal codes against same-sex sexual partners be dropped. What was the word he coined?
9. Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) was forced to abdicate the throne mainly because of her lesbianism.
10. The question of gay marriage is controversial, to put it mildly. As Vermont successfully permitted gay and lesbian civil unions, other states hopped on the bandwagon to make sure that those unions would not be recognized on their turf. Western Europe, for the most part, is a bit more forward thinking in that matter. In 1995, Sweden became the second country to allow full rights to a same-sex couple. What European country was first?
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