May 2021 Crossword: LGBTQ+ Icons Theme
To complete the crossword at home, simply click on the crossword box, print it out, and fill in the boxes using the clues below!
Across:
8. Rock musician who sang “Come to My Window”
10. Women’s soccer star named 2019’s FIFA player of the year
13. Colorful music and activist duo?
14. S.N.L. cast member who might be seen impersonating 6-Down
16. First transgender woman on the cover of Time magazine
17. Host of an iconic drag show
18. Author of The Picture of Dorian Gray
19. Genderfluid Australian model and Batwoman portrayer
Down:
1. Television writer who donned a notable rainbow cape at the Met Gala
2. Queer essayist who coined the term “camp”
3. Writer and co-founder of Gay Men’s Health Crisis
4. New York poet laureate known for her intersectional activism
5. Out San Francisco politician of the 1970s
6. Comedian who famously came out on “The Puppy Episode” of her sitcom
7. He’s still standing (after all this time)
9. S.T.A.R. activist and Stonewall figure?
11. English codebreaker with an eponymous amnesty law
12. Playwright of Angels in America
13. Actor known for her role as Angel on Pose
15. Costar of 13-Down and wearer of eye-catching fashion pieces
Key:
Across:
8) Melissa Etheridge
10) Megan Rapinoe
13) Indigo Girls
14) Kate McKinnon
16) Laverne Cox
17) RuPaul
18) Oscar Wilde
19) Ruby Rose
Down
1) Lena Waithe
2) Susan Sontag
3) Larry Kramer
4) Audre Lorde
5) Harvey Milk
6) Ellen DeGeneres
7) Elton John
9) Marsha P. Johnson
11) Alan Turing
12) Tony Kushner
13) Indya Moore
15) Billy Porter
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