Signs and Symbols Words and Cultures History History and Gender Politics
100
What is the rainbow flag?
This symbol was designed by Gilbert Baker and flew at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade celebration on June 25, 1978.
100
What is homophobia?
This “dis/ease” is an irrational fear or hatred of those who are attracted to the same sex
100
What is October 11th?
National Coming Out Day
100
What is Stonewall?
This Greenwich Village bar was raided one too many times before the uprising in June of 1969.
100
What are allies?
These non-LGBTQ people stand for the rights of LGBTQ individuals
200
What is the pink triangle?
This geometric design marked gay men in Nazi Germany
200
What is fag/faggot?
This “burning bundle of sticks” has been used as a derogatory term for gay men, though some have reclaimed the word
200
What is "out"?
A national magazine which focuses on lesbian and gay news
200
Who is Matthew Shepard?
The murder of this college student in 1998 refocused attention on LGBTQ oppression
200
What is the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)?
President Clinton signed this law into effect in 1996, setting the federal definition of marriage as “a legal union between one man and one woman”
300
What is the lambda?
This symbol identified gay and bisexual warriors in ancient Greece
300
What is deisel/butch dyke?
This term was used to identify truck- driving, hard- working, masculine, or strong lesbian women
300
What is Questioning?
This is the last Q in the LGBTQQ alphabet soup
300
What is transgender?
This term describes individuals who do not identify with their birth- assigned sex and/or socially assigned gender
300
What is androgynous?
A person who is not particularly masculine or feminine may be considered this
400
What is Combined Mars/Venus?
This symbol is sometimes used to identify transgender (or transsexual) people
400
What is sex and gender?
Whether by preference or orientation, Cass suggests we all grow into our own, in time
400
What is sex and gender?
One is determined for most of us by XY chromosomes, the other is learned through socialization
400
What is Massachusetts?
This state became the first U.S. state to legalize marriage equality for LGBTQ individuals in 2004
500
Who is Friends of Dorothy?
Someplace “over the rainbow” was a covert reference for these folks in the 1940’s and 1950’s and is sometimes still used today
500
What is 2012 and what is Maryland, Maine, Washington.
In what year, these were the first three states to legalize same-sex.






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