Wow, it’s National Coming Out Day, a monumental day for us all. If you already know a lot about the holiday and also coming out in general — great news, I made a quiz for you! Hot tip: if the question seems impossible, don’t give up, see if you can figure it out from the multiple choice answers available.
Riese is the 40-year-old Co-Founder and CEO of Autostraddle.com as well as an award-winning writer, video-maker, LGBTQ+ Marketing consultant and aspiring cyber-performance artist who grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in New York and now lives in California. Her work has appeared in nine books including "The Bigger the Better The Tighter The Sweater: 21 Funny Women on Beauty, Body Image & Other Hazards Of Being Female," magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nylon, Queerty, Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a time, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are! In 2016, she was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism. Follow her on twitter and instagram.
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Quiz Grade: B
Score: 14
Percentage: 82%
I felt for sure KStew would generate more traffic than Ellen Page! But then I guess she never came out so much as slunk out with an implied f-u to the world.
I thought so too!
well we also were literally the first news outlet to report on the ellen page thing, like i got that post up LICKITY FUCKING SPLIT.
also k-stew has like… come out in tiny stages? and she didn’t actually say “i’m gay” until that SNL appearance, which was like four gilrfriends in. before that, it was like a few tiny things:
I think if Kristen had showed up at an HRC event and said “i am here today because i am gay” we would’ve been able to headline and social the post like a real coming out and it would’ve been embraced as such. celebrity’s who don’t label themselves really are doing a disservice to us personally and our need to get good traffic
I guess I’m just disappointed with the internet at large for not clicking on the Kristen Stewart raised by wolves article more
Quiz Grade: C
Score: 12
Percentage: 71%
I think this is the highest score that I have ever received on an AS quiz.
Thanks for coming out to take this test!
Quiz Grade: C
Score: 13
Percentage: 76%
Lucky guessing.
Quiz Grade: B
Score: 14
Percentage: 82%
Definitely my high score ever on an AS quiz.
Quiz Grade: B
Score: 14
Percentage: 82%
this is definitely the best i’ve ever done also my boss saw me taking it, so
Thank to Riese for putting in so many context clues that I was able to get a nearly perfect score. The only ones I got wrong were, of course, the questions about articles on this very website that I absolutely 100% read, but just forgot about. I think recency bias kicked in that I picked Kstew over Ellen Page. That was a dumb mistake. I still remember the night of February 14, 2014 when I sat at my computer with two queer friends crying over that speech.
Quiz Grade: A
Score: 16
Percentage: 94%
THIS IS MY HIGHEST QUIZ GRADE ON ANY AUTOSTRADDLE QUIZ EVER AND AS AN OVERACHIEVER WHO WAS FRUSTRATED BY NEVER GETTING OVER 67% THIS MAKES ME SO DAMN HAPPY YESSSSSS
Quiz Grade: A
Score: 16
Percentage: 94%
I am so disappointed in myself for picking Melissa Etheridge over k.d. Lang. I know better! Melissa came out at a Clinton’s inauguration. I was 12.5 when Melissa came out and I remember that feeling.
Umm. That should read “Melissa came out at a Clinton inauguration party.”
Landed myself a comfy 14 / 82%, and feeling proud of it!
Question 12 was all too easy for me because I distinctly remember being *so disappointed* when I learned that Sarah McLachlan was not, in fact, a lesbian. Amazingly, it took me a bunch more years to come out to myself as queer…
Solid B. I’m clueless about sportsball!
Wow, I had no idea Perez Hilton was such an asshole! WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS?
Quiz Grade: C
Score: 13
Percentage: 76%
This is going to make me sound so lame but the reason I knew Melissa Etheridge came out at Bill Clinton’s inauguration was it’s this trivia fact on Music Choice!
Also, I totally remember Cynthia Nixon being outed. There was this entertainment news show I used to watch that came on really early in the mornings on The CW and that’s where I saw it first.
Quiz Grade: B
Score: 14
Percentage: 82%
Quiz Grade: B
Score: 14
Percentage: 82%
That Subaru coming out scenario is so 90s. I wish I’d thought of it.
B. “Let’s set fire to our vulvas” just seemed so chill, didn’t even register as a fake theme for National Coming Out Day.
Quiz Grade: E
Score: 7
Percentage: 41%
I noticed only positive grades are getting posted in the comments, which made me wonder if there are others getting bad grades and just staying quiet about it. There were a couple I might have gotten right if I’d thought about them a little more. I only got a few right, but I learned some things from this, so yay!
Was hoping to do a little better, but a C is solid.
Thanks for coming out to take this test!
Quiz Grade: C
Score: 12
Percentage: 71%
Ahhhh…I was there for all of those 1990s historical questions. But I still only pulled off a “B”. And I like to be an “A”. C’est la guerre! Thanks, Riese, for doing this!