This is true and not a wind-up. But if you crack into a smile you've failed the test, OK?
There's the first Liverpool Pride weekend today and tomorrow, when lots of, er, flamboyant people will be going for a mince/march (delete as appropriate) though the city.
There's also a photographic exhibition of the city's old gay quarter, demolished in the 1970s. It was centered around....wait for it.....
Queen Square