Minorities - Gay Rights Movement

Question 1

Problems:

Answer 1

Banned.
Disease.
Lavender scare.

Question 2

Problems with being banned.

Answer 2

Not served or accepted into bars / hotels.

Question 3

Problems with disease.

Answer 3

Homosexuals seen as a mental illness.

Question 4

Aims.

Answer 4

Civil rights apply to them.
Stop police brutality.
Accepted.

Question 5

What was stonewall inn??

Answer 5

Pub, police were rougher than usual, 400 fought back, clashes in area for several nights.

Question 6

Gay liberation front??

Answer 6

Set up after SW, liberal climate expanded movement. Welcoming areas (SF,NYC). Gay friends and family. 1977, 50% support but Kkk and Christians.

Question 7

Tactics similar to AA:

Answer 7

Responses to police brutality.
Groups worked together.
Marches.
Leaders.

Question 8

Differences to AA:

Answer 8

Targeted accepting areas.
Not part of radical group.
No/ little media.

Question 9

Successes:

Answer 9

1977, milk first gay politician (SF) stood up against proposition 6.
Removed as a illness 1973.
Homosexual bill of rights calling for equality 1968.

Question 10

Failures:

Answer 10

Milk assassinated November 1979.

Strong religious opposition from Republicans and conservatives.