Quiz: Which Fictional TV High School Should You Have Gone To?

High school: a ripe setting within which many of our most beloved LGBTQ+ narratives take place, inspiring us to say things like, “I could never wear that to my school” or “how does Will Schuster still have a job?” Now it’s time to find out which one of these fictional high schools owes you an education:

Which Fictional High School Do You Belong At?

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1. Which of these mediums would be best for telling your high school story?*


2. Pick a place to grow up:*


3. Pick a musical:*


4. Pick a default after-school and weekend hangout spot:*


6. Pick a teen movie*


7. Pick an outfit for your first day of school:*


8. It's time for the big school play! What's your role in the production?*


9. Pick a plan for your 16th birthday:*


10. Pick a song to play at your graduation ceremony:*


11. Pick an After-School Special:*


12. What is your favorite self-defense mechanism?*


13. Pick a Core Value:*


14. Pick a crush:*


15. Pick a backpack*


16. Tell me about the craziest party that ever happened at your high school:*


17. Which of these fictional high school's students do you THINK you'd fit in best with? (This question is optional and won't override your other answers, but it could be a tie-breaker.)

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Riese

Riese is the 43-year-old Co-Founder 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 Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in nine books, 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. She's Jewish and has a cute dog named Carol. Follow her on twitter and instagram.

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31 Comments

  1. I got Genera+ion!

    A show I haven’t watched but teenage me certainly would have liked the idea of fitting this description

    “You burn brightly, dress wildly, feel all your feelings and only go to the mall ironically”

    • I LOVED genera+ion so much — it has a rocky start but the latter half of the season really came through, I wish it’d been Renewed!

  2. It’s not working for me – the chacos and hiking shorts first-day-of-school outfit seems to not be a legit answer :(

      • Hester High in ATX from Faking It! Not actually representative of my *actual* Austin, TX high school experience in the early 2000’s, but v v aspirational, I’ll take it 😂

    • Hester High in ATX from Faking It! Not actually representative of my *actual* Austin, TX high school experience in the early 2000’s, but v v aspirational, I’ll take it 😂

  4. I would kill for Gillian Anderson to talk to me at Moordale High. Lucky that’s where I belong!

  5. Another winning quiz from Riese!! Always a highlight of the day!

    drum roll please: Bayside High, from the saved by the bell reboot.

    Sounds about right.

    The best part of the quiz was reading all the choices for each question, some are laugh out loud funny…..

    • Funny, I was thinking exactly the same thing!

      I would like to be Buffy’s younger sister and tag along with her on her evening patrols. With Buffy as an older sister, I know I would be safe!!

    • to be honest it’s been like 10 years since i last watched buffy, and it’s a show with a PASSIONATE INTENSE FANDOM, so i didn’t include it ’cause i didn’t feel literate enough in the buffyverse to come up with answers that would pass muster! also i already had a lot of schools in california

  7. Noooo, I got “we’ll be in touch.” I must have broken it :( Or got a tie? I didn’t know any of the high schools in the last question except degrassi so I chose none of the above …

    • I genuinely have no idea what happened! None Of the Above is linked to a real answer, too, so that wouldn’t have done anything. But i can’t figure out what went wrong

      • It will be the (highly sensitive) spam filter going off!

        As Zephyr mentions, it can happen with VPNs, but also if people go back and resubmit, or just if the filter is in a bad mood. If you’re not using a VPN, then just waiting a few minutes and trying to submit again should do the trick!

    • This sometimes happens to me when I’m on a VPN. I turn it off, resubmit and voila! My one true identity is revealed.

  8. “Congratulations you’re entering the beautiful dreamworld of Netflix’s Heartstopper, where teens drink milkshakes instead of wine coolers and cartoon hearts pop up when you fall in love and there’s a gay teacher you can have lunch with if you’re lonely!”

    Truly the closest match to my actual high school experience. Except the teacher was my best friend’s straight mom. Wait. WAS SHE ACTUALLY GAY?

  9. maybe this finally convinced me to watch Sex Education My queer surroundings, even people I have dated, have not achieved this (partially because the series made me think of the people I dated after they broke my heart) even though there’s GILLIAN ANDERSON

  10. Sex Education! Which is Moore something? I haven’t watched it yet, but this quiz result is quickly moving it up in my queue.

  11. love so much about this quiz (how is euphoria a real show???) and now i gotta bump heartstoppers up on my list thank youuuu

  13. love so much about this quiz (how is euphoria a real show???) and now i gotta bump heartstoppers up on my list thank youuuu

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