Queer Jeopardy
Signs and
Symbols
Words
and
Culture
History
Gender
Bender
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Final Jeopardy
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Allies
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This flag was utilized in
the 1984 presidential
bid of Jesse Jackson
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Rainbow Flag
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This geometric design
marked gay men in
Nazi Germany
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Pink Triangle
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This symbol marked
lesbians and
“asocial” persons in
concentration camps
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Black Triangle
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This symbol
identified gay and
bisexual warriors in
ancient Greece
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Lambda
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This symbol is
sometimes used to
identify transgender
(or transsexual)
people
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Combined Mars/Venus
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This “dis/ease” is
an irrational fear
or hatred of those
who are attracted
to the same sex
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Homophobia
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This “burning bundle
of sticks” has been
used as a derogatory
term for gay men,
though some have
reclaimed the word
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Fag/faggot
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This term was used
to identify truckdriving, hardworking,
masculine, or
strong lesbian
women
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Butch/diesel dyke
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Whether by
preference or
orientation, Cass
suggests we all
grow into our own,
in time
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Social/Sexual Identities
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This is the last Q
in the LGBTQQ
alphabet soup
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Questioning
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This Greenwich
Village bar was
raided one too many
times before the
uprising in June of
1969.
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The Stonewall Inn
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The murder of this
college student in
1998 refocused
attention on LGBTQ
oppression
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Matthew Shepard
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Someplace “over the
rainbow” was a
covert reference for
these folks in the
1940’s and 1950’s
and is sometimes
still used today
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Friends of Dorothy
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This state became
the first U.S. state to
legalize marriage
equality for LGBTQ
individuals in 2004
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Massachusetts
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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”
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Defense of Marriage Act
(DOMA)
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One is determined for
most of us by XY
chromosomes, the
other is learned
through socialization
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Sex and Gender
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A person who is
not particularly
masculine or
feminine may be
considered this
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Androgynous
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This term describes
individuals who do not
identify with their birthassigned sex and/or
socially assigned
gender
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Transgender
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This type of gender
expression involves
individuals dressing as
the opposite sex/
gender, often for
entertainment
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Drag (Queen or King)
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This “ism” may be part of
homophobia and is
rooted in rigid beliefs
about sex and gender
norms
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Heterosexism
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These non-LGBTQ
people stand for the
rights of LGBTQ
individuals
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Allies
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Supporting
someone through
the early process
of questioning
their LGBTQ
identity may help
them do this
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Come Out
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B
Allies can help
LGBTQ individuals
overcome this selfhatred
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Internalized homophobia
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Allies can be this by
simply recognizing and
acknowledging LGBTQ
individuals
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Affirming
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This is one thing an
ally can do to
interrupt homophobia
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Variable answers. . .
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FINAL JEOPARDY
Place your wager!
In _______, these were
the first three states to
legalize same sex
marriage by popular vote.
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2012
Maryland
Maine
Washington