Deck 5: Constructions of Homosexualities: Past and Present

Question 1

In the Classical World of ancient Greece, why was there no word for homosexuality?

Answer 1

(on pp.123-127)

Question 2

What role(s) did the rise of Western capitalism play in the emergence of the modern homosexual?

Answer 2

(is on pp. 134-136)

Question 3

How did the transgender people contribute to the LGBT public protests against discrimination and police violence during the 1960s?

Answer 3

(on pp. 140-141)

Question 4

Define the term MSM in Latin America. Why does this term demonstrate how "socioeconomic class and geography intersect with sexual practices"?

Question 5

How do the Hijras constitute a third sex that may desire men?

Question 6

Define the term "boy-wife" among the Azande people. What sociocultural and economic circumstances shaped the development of this custom?

Question 7

Why are the Stonewall Inn Riots in 1969 regarded by many historians as the beginning of modern gay liberation movement even though there were earlier LGBT protests?

Question 8

Why is it difficult for historians to ascertain the extent of female same-sex relationships in ancient Greece and Rome?

Question 9

Define the practice of "mummy-baby relationships" in parts of Southern Africa and Kenya. How does it provide a camouflage for same-sex intimacy?"

Question 10

Explain how there exists a counterpart between the Roman Empire's key mandate of masculine sexual performance in contemporary Latin American cultures.

Question 11

Define the term pederasty. Why do some scholars contend that it remained largely an upper-class tradition?

Question 12

Why do Hijras often maintain that they were "imperfect men"?

Question 13

What influences fostered the myth of same-sex sexuality as un-African?

Question 14

What is the symbolic importance of the Stonewall Riots for the history and images of LGBT communities?

Question 15

Explain how the medicalization of homosexuality in the 20^th century created the groundwork for the LGBT identity and equality movements?

Question 16

In medieval Europe, why was same-sex intimacy regarded as inconsequential and nonexistent as a sexual activity?

Question 17

Why do scholars on ancient Greek culture warn about interpreting Sappho's poetry as proof of a lesbian subculture in Classical Greece?

Question 18

Among Azande men, why is female same-sex intimacy viewed with repulsion?

Question 19

Why does Thabo Msibi contend that "homosexuality is a concept that does not come out of Africa"?

Question 20

Why did the New York City police try to shut down the Stonewall Inn on June 27, 1969?

Question 21

Where did the poet Sappho live?

A) Corfu
B) Lesbos
C) Naxos
D) Athens
E) Crete

Question 22

Who were forced to wear a pink triangle on their prison uniforms in Nazi concentration camps?

A) Trade Unionists
B) Communists
C) Gypsies
D) Jehovah Witnesses
E) Homosexuals

Question 23

Where is the Stonewall Inn located in Manhattan?

A) Hell's Kitchen
B) Midtown
C) Greenwich Village
D) Harlem
E) Washington Square

Question 24

Which is an area where the Azande people live in Africa?

A) The Democratic Republic of Congo
B) The Cameroons
C) Burkina Faso
D) Equatorial Guinea
E) Ivory Coast

Question 25

In early modern Europe, who was known as a tribade?

A) A cisgender person
B) A woman who marries outside the Catholic Church.
C) An unmarried woman who lives with her sister.
D) A female with a unique anatomy.
E) A woman in a same-sex marriage.

Question 26

Who led an uprising in Athens that overthrew a tyranny?

A) Plato
B) Aristogeiton
C) Aristotle
D) Democritus
E) Epicurus

Question 27

Who coined the term perversion of lesbian desire?

A) Cooper Thompson
B) James Butrica
C) Roger Lancaster
D) Louis Crompton
E) Valerie Traub

Question 28

What movement is associated with the upended pink triangle?

A) ACT UP's Silence = Death campaign about the AIDS crisis
B) The Gay Liberation Front
C) Daughters of Bilitis
D) The Mattachine Society
E) The Student Homophile League

Question 29

Which country is known for mummy-baby relationships?

A) Angola
B) Botswana
C) Kenya
D) South Africa
E) Zimbabwe

Question 30

In what city is Compton's Cafeteria located?

A) New York
B) Los Angeles
C) Seattle
D) Portland
E) San Francisco

Question 31

Who made the assertion that homosexuality represents "A scourge planted by the white man on a pure continent?"

A) Cyril Ramaphose
B) Robert Mugabe
C) Thabo Msibi
D) Marc Epprecht
E) Jacob Zuma

Question 32

Most Hijaras are primarily associated with what particular religion?

A) Buddhism
B) Zoroarianism
C) Islam
D) Hinduism
E) Bahá'í Faith

Question 33

What statement best describes the term "Boston Marriage"?

A) Two women who live together in a long term relationship that may or may not be sexually intimate in late nineteenth century New England.
B) A gay male upper class couple living together in New England before 1945.
C) A heterosexual married couple who voluntarily chose to live apart during the late 1880s.
D) A bisexual couple legally married in Boston.
E) A separated Catholic married couple living in Massachusetts before 1900.

Question 34

Which African nation adopted an equality clause in its constitution prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation?

A) Namibia
B) Lesotho
C) South Africa
D) Zambia
E) Malawi

Question 35

Who founded the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Mattachine Society?

A) David Carter
B) Gary Kinsman
C) Randy Wicker
D) Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
E) Frank Kameny

Question 36

What was the year of the LGBT-led riot at Cooper's Donuts in Los Angeles?

A) 1960
B) 1955
C) 1962
D) 1959
E) 1957

Question 37

Who are the scholars who disagree with Michel Foucault's position that homosexuality as a socially constructed category never existed prior to the 19^th century called?

A) Essentialists
B) Postmodernists
C) Historicists
D) Poststructuralists
E) Marxists

Question 38

Which state once authorized the use of lobotomies and castration for those convicted of consensual sodomy?

A) Hawaii
B) New Mexico
C) California
D) Alaska
E) Colorado

Question 39

Which African nation recently passed anti-LGBT laws?

A) Botswana
B) Cape Verde
C) Gabon
D) Benin
E) Uganda

Question 40

How long did the Stonewall Riots last?

A) One day
B) Six Days
C) Three days
D) Four days
E) Seven days

Question 41

Where did sociologist Héctor Carrillo conduct his research in Mexico?

A) Mexico City
B) Guanajuato
C) Veracruz
D) Guadalajara
E) Morelia

Question 42

Which word best describes the term chaste femme love during the European Middle Ages?

A) Celibate
B) Calm
C) Caring
D) Captivating
E) Complicated

Question 43

Who utilized the terms homosexuality and heterosexuality for the first time in history?

A) Oscar Wilde
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Károly Mária Kertbeny
D) Melinda Finkel-Konigsberg
E) Martin Nesvig

Question 44

What state used a 19^th century labor law to arrest the transgendered?

A) Pennsylvania
B) Maryland
C) Rhode Island
D) New Jersey
E) New York

Question 45

What is the hallmark of being a Hijra?

A) Beauty
B) Male Impotence
C) Power
D) Craftiness
E) Sexual desire

Question 46

Most states had "sex psychopath" laws that authorized the detention of gay people.

Question 47

Plato called the poet Sappho "the tenth muse."

Question 48

According to the gender-based model of sexual identity, Héctor Carrillo observed that Mexican women are divided into three groups.

Question 49

The Book of Leviticus in the Old Testament condemns sodomy but not any person who commits such acts.

Question 50

The great majority of the protestors at the Stonewall Inn riots were European-Americans.

Question 51

The legal foundation for many African nations' oppressive anti-gay decrees were developed after these nations became independent from European colonialism.

Question 52

Most Hijras began life with the assigned sex of a male.

Question 53

In medieval Europe, women were not punished if their partner cross-dressed and passed as a man.

Question 54

Michel Foucault rejected the notion that the supposedly objective medical category of homosexuality epitomized a social construction.

Question 55

Classics professor Craig A. Williams coined the phrase "prime directive of masculine behavior" as one of the two rules of ancient Roman sexual conduct.