Social Developments: Homosexuals, Transsexuals, Disabled people, Aging Population, Divorce

Question 1

What made negative attitudes towards Homosexuals worse in the 1980s?

Answer 1

The AIDS outbreak

Question 2

How did the media label the AIDS outbreak?

Answer 2

“The gay plague”

Question 3

What year did the first AIDS case appear?

Answer 3

1981

Question 4

What was the loony left accused of doing with gay groups?

Answer 4

Funding their meetings

Question 5

Name a book that caused media outrage over its homosexual content

Answer 5

Jenny lives with Eric and Martin

Question 6

When did the media report on Jenny lives with Eric and Martin?

Answer 6

1986

Question 7

What piece of legislation was influenced by media opposition to the children’s book on homosexuality?

Answer 7

The 1988 Local Government Act

Question 8

What did Section 28 of the 1988 Local Government Act do?

Answer 8

Banned the discussion of homosexuality in schools

Question 9

Name an anti-homosexual pressure group

Answer 9

Outrage

Question 10

What did the “Outrage!” pressure group threaten to do?

Answer 10

Expose clergymen for being gay

Question 11

Which organisation campaigned for the homosexual age of consent for men to be lowered?

Answer 11

Stonewall

Question 12

What was the homosexual male age of consent before 1994?

Answer 12

21

Question 13

What was the homosexual male age of consent after the Stonewall campaign success?

Answer 13

18 years old

Question 14

How many marriages out of 1000 ended in divorce in the 1950s?

Answer 14

2 in 1000 marriages

Question 15

How many marriages out of 1000 ended in divorce in the 1960s?

Answer 15

10 in 1000 marriages

Question 16

What percentage of men were divorced in the 1970s?

Answer 16

1%

Question 17

What percentage of men were divorced by 2000?

Answer 17

8%

Question 18

When was the Child Support Act passed?

Answer 18

1993

Question 19

Who had created the Child Support Act?

Answer 19

Thatcher

Question 20

What was an issue with the Child Support Act?

Answer 20

Thatcher had done little research into it

Question 21

What happened with the Child Support Act in 1991?

Answer 21

It was rejected by the House of Lords

Question 22

How did the 1993 Chlld Support Act prove to be in the end?

Answer 22

Expensive and ineffective

Question 23

What campaign did Victoria Gillick lead?

Answer 23

A campaign to stop allowing girls from getting contraceptives without telling their parents

Question 24

What was the initial ruling of Gillicks campaign aim?

Answer 24

It would come into effect

Question 25

What was ruled in 1985 with Gillicks campaign aim?

Answer 25

It was abolished

Question 26

Which organisation was created in 1992 to get trans people gender reassignment rights?

Answer 26

Press for Change

Question 27

What year was a transsexual woman successful in a European court case?

Answer 27

1994

Question 28

How can it be seen that struggles for transsexuals continued?

Answer 28

Male to female transsexuals were unable to draw from their pension at the female age of 60

Question 29

Name a group that fought for gay acceptance

Answer 29

Stonewall

Question 30

When was an amendment to the Housing Bill proposed to be more inclusive for same sex couples?

Answer 30

1996

Question 31

Who proposed the amendment to the Housing Bill to be more inclusive?

Answer 31

Labour MP Glenda Jackson

Question 32

What did the House of Commons do to the 1996 Housing Bill Amendment?

Answer 32

They rejected it

Question 33

How many unsuccessful disabled equal rights bills were there from 1982 to 1993?

Answer 33

15

Question 34

How did disabled employment rights relate to the EU by the 1990s?

Answer 34

The EU was pressing for Britain to make disabled equality legislation

Question 35

How many letters were sent to MP's to support the 1992 Disabled Employment Bill?

Answer 35

250,000

Question 36

What would be the cost of implementing accommodation for disabled people in employment?

Answer 36

£17 billion

Question 37

What happened to the 1992 Disabled Employment Bill?

Answer 37

It did not go through

Question 38

What did the 1996 Community Care Act allow local councils to do?

Answer 38

Fund services for disabled people

Question 39

What was a limitation of council funding of disabled people services?

Answer 39

They had little financial flexibility to make them efficient for disabled people

Question 40

How old were you expected to live in 1995 if you were already 65 years old?

Answer 40

Live to 80 years old

Question 41

When was 16% of the population made up of people over 65?

Answer 41

1995

Question 42

What percentage of UK pensioners lived in poverty?

Answer 42

40%

Question 43

What was happening to many older employees?

Answer 43

They were being laid off

Question 44

What did research show about the mental capabilities of a smart 60 year old?

Answer 44

They were better than that of an average 25 year old's mental capabilities

Question 45

When was the Scottish Pensioners Forum created?

Answer 45

1992

Question 46

When was the Campaign Against Age Discrimination created?

Answer 46

1988

Question 47

What year was the Disability Discrimination Act created?

Answer 47

1995

Question 48

What did the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act do?

Answer 48

Made it so that people could not be discriminated against in jobs