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America: Gay Rights Movement Flashcards

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What was the difference between gay Americans and other minorities? How did this impact peoples opinions

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  • they were not a visible racial group
  • people were frightened by their ‘invisibility’ similar to how communism had been seen as an ‘invisible disease’
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When did congress declare homosexuality a mental illness?

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In the 1950s

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When was homosexuality decriminalised in the whole of the US?

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2003

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There was a ‘red scare’ at the height of communist fears, what was the equal at the time for gay Americans and what did it aim to do?

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The ‘lavender scare’ aimed to root out homosexuals in the same way the red scare did for communists

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What piece of legislation did gay rights campaigners use and why?

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  • the 1964 Civil Rights Act
    -this declared it was illegal to discriminate on the grounds of race or gender
  • used this to prove it applied to gay Americans
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When was the Gay Rights Movement formed?

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1969

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After what event was the Gay Rights Movement formed?

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After police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York

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Why did police raid the stonewall Inn so frequently?

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Supposedly for breaking liquor licensing laws but it was really because it was a gay bar

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How did people who used the Stonewall Inn react to the frequent police raids?

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  • they were used to them
  • they had a routine for slipping away and escaping
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Summarise the event at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 that was differently to the frequent police raids, and how it led to the formation of the Gay Rights Movement?

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  • one of the raids in June 1969, police were rough with one of the customers and something snapped in people
  • around 400 people began fighting and yelling at police
  • police were force to barricade themselves in the bar for safety
  • several nights afterward there was protest and clashes with police around the bar
  • the movement took off over the next few weeks
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What was set up as a result of the raid of the Stonewall Inn in June 1969?

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The Gay Liberation Front
There was then a serious of large and peaceful protests that followed

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How were gay Americans treated before Stonewall?

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There had been many stories of groups and individuals targeting discrimination against gay Americans

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How did the movement grow after 1969?

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-in 1970 there were gay pride marches in several cities
-smaller groups and the GLF worked individually and together to make changes
- highly visible gay communities sprang up in San Franciso, New York and Chicago

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How many people were at the Gay Right March in New York in 1970?

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10’000

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How did the growth in gay rights support change peoples opinions for personal reasons?

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People discovered people they liked and knew well were gay so the prejudices reduced some

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Contextually, why did the late 1960s and early 70s mean the gay rights movement expanded rapidly?

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There was a liberal climate

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In 1977 there was a poll, how many people did it suggest were in support for equal rights of gay Americans?

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50%

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There was still hostility towards gay Americans, name 2 specific groups of people that were hostile still

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  • the KKK
  • from some who live in certain parts of the country, e.g the rural Bible Belt, where there was increased hostility because of religious fundamentalism
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When was the first Supreme Court ruling in favour of Gay Americans?

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13th January 1958

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What was the first Supreme Court ruling that favoured gay Americans?

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The Supreme Court refused to let the postal service ban a gay magazine that they had deemed as ‘obscene”

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When was the first Reminder day protest?

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4th July 1965

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What was the Reminder Day protest?

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An anti-discrimination protest outside Independence Hall, Philadelphia carried out by 40 gay and lesbian activists
- it became an annual event

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When was the “sip-in” at a New York bar that wouldnt serve gays?

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21st April 1966

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What event led to the NYC commission on human rights ruling that gays must be served?

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When there was a “sip-in” at a New York Bar that refused to serve gays in April 1966

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What did the North American Conference of Homophile Organisation do in August 1968?

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They issued a homosexual bill of rights calling for equality

26
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who issued a homosexual bill of rights in August 1968?

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The North American Conference of Homophile Organisations

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How many days of riots followed stonewall on the 28th of June 1969?

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3

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The date of the Stonewall raid

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28th June 1969

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What was the different between the riots following Stonewall and black American riots?

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Stonewall riots got very little media coverage compared to black American riots

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What was seen as the first ever Gay Pride?

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The marches on the anniversary of Stonewall

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When was the first ever gay pride?

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28th June 1970

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What happened on the 28th June 1970?

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There were marches in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and LA on the anniversary of stonewall that were seen as the first ever gay pride

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When did the American Psychiatric Association remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses?

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15th December 1973

34
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What did the American Psychiatric Association remove from the list of mental illnesses in December 1973?

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Homosexuality

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Who was the first openly gay American to be elected and where?

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  • Kathy Kozachenko joined the city council of Ann Arbor in Michigan
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When was Kathy Kozachenko elected to a city council in Michigan?

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January 1974

37
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When were there campaigns against Proposition 6?

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The 8th of November 1977

38
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When was Harvey Milk elected and where?

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8th November 1977 in San Francisco

39
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What was Harvey Milk’s first ruling?

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To stop people being fired because they were gay

40
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When was Harvey Milk assassinated?

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27th November 1978

41
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Who assasinated Harvey Milk?

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Dan white

42
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How many years in prison was Dan white given for assassinating Harvey Milk?

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7

43
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Why did people believe Dan white got such a lenient sentence?

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Because Harvey Milk was Gay

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What was a major gay rights protest that happened on the 21st May 1979?

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-Harvey Milk’s assasin was given a 7 year sentence
-people believed the leniency was because Milk had been gay
-5000+ protestors marched on San Francisco city hall and riots broke out
-120 people were injured

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When was the March on Washington for lesbian and gay rights?

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14th October 1979

46
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What major gay rights event happened on the 14th October 1979?

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There was a national march on Washington for gay and lesbian rights that urged for equal rights and protective legislation

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How many people were at the march on Washington for gay and lesbian rights?

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At least 100,000

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What did the Democratic Party state in August 1980?

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That it wont discriminate against gays and will campaign for their rights

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What was Proposition 6?

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A law proposed in california in 1978 to ban gay and lesbian Americans and their supporters from working in state funded schools in the state

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What were the successes of the Gay Rights Movement?

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-Openly gay officials like Kathy Kozachenko and Harvey Milk were elected for the first time
-Gay support at a federal level was increasing
-between 1979-81, 4 openly gay state judges were appointed in the government of california
-a gay teenage boy in Rhode Island successfully sued his high school for the right to bring a male date to prom

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Who strongly opposed proposition 6?

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Harvey Milk

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What were the limitations of the Gay rights movement?

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-Milk and the gay mayor of San Francisco were both assasinated in 1979
-In the 1970s there was growing conservative backlash, they started campaigning against gay rights
-Although proposition 6 was defeated by Californian voters, it inspired similar laws to be proposed in other states
-the outspoken conservative right became more prominent and attracted support from republicans e.g president Reagan

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Give an example of a conservative backlash campaign

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1977 Save our Children Campaign
It was successful in stopping a Florida law that proposed banning discrimination in housing, public facilities and employment

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