1How were conditions for lgbtq pre-movement?
Mental illness, banned from jobs, intimacy was crime
2What term refers to the 1950s period in which the government hunted suspected gay employees due to “security risks” in which thousands were fired from their jobs, and thousands more were discharged from the military?
Lavender Scare
3What group existed as the first sustained national gay rights group?
Mattachine Society
4Name the first lesbian rights organization
Daughters of Bilitis
5What form of protest involved activists announcing themselves as gay within bars as a way of challenging the no-serving rule?
Sip-ins
6What catastrophic event in June of 1969 saw police raids of a gay bar in NYC, otherwise known as the straw that broke the backs of those who were fed up?
Stonewall
7Who has the least to protect, risked the most by serving as a front-line of support during Stonewall?
Marsha P. Johnson
8When was homosexuality removed as a mental illness from the DSM?
1973
9Name the first openly gay official who was killed 8 years after his 1970 election
Harvey Milk
10What 1980s catastrophe devastated the queer community, and saw the deaths of thousands as the government sat idly?
AIDS epidemic
11What was the slogan during the AIDS epidemic?
Silence = Death
12What state legalized same sex marriage in 2004?
Massachusetts
13When did the Supreme Court legalize same sex marriage as a result of Obergefell v. Hodges?
2015
14What movement was actually founded in 2006, with the focus on bringing light to survivors of sexual violence, mainly women of color?
Me Too
15Who founded the Me Too movement?
Tarana Burke
16When did the Me Too movement go viral because a celebrity and victim of sexual assault used it as a hashtag?
October 2017
17How did #MeToo produce change?
Abusers lost jobs, legal trouble, laws passed, culture shifted
18What was the backlash of #MeToo?
Men claimed the movement went too far, many afraid of being falsely accused of sexual assault
19Who often got the least attention and support, despite the movement being born largely in support of them?
Survivors of color