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Understanding Homosexuality: Historical and Social Perspectives

This quiz explores the historical, social, and cultural aspects of homosexuality, including classifications, societal reactions, literary references, and regional perspectives.

#Homosexuality #LGBTQ+ History #Social Attitudes #Cultural Studies #Sexual Orientation

1 The first attempts to classify homosexuality as a disease were made by the fledgling European ________ movement in the late 19th century.

2 What does the following picture show?  Balboa setting his war dogs upon Indian practitioners of male love in 1513; New York Public Library   v • d • e   Lesbian girls   Lesbian girls

3 Many Melanesian societies, however, have become hostile towards same-sex relationships since the introduction of ________ by European missionaries.

4 ________ is the practice of publicly revealing the sexual orientation of a closeted person.

5 Transgender and cisgender people may be attracted to men, women, or both, although the prevalence of different sexual orientations is quite different in these two populations (see ________).

6 In ________, same-sex love has been referred to since the earliest recorded history.

7 The 1749 edition of John Cleland's popular novel ________ includes a homosexual scene, but this was removed in its 1750 edition.

8 In the United States, 45 states and the ________ have statutes criminalizing various types of bias-motivated violence or intimidation (the exceptions are AZ, GA, IN, SC, and WY).

9 What does the following picture show?  Balboa setting his war dogs upon Indian practitioners of male love in 1513; New York Public Library   Youth females are depicted as surrounding Sappho in this painting of Lafond "Sappho sings for Homer", 1824   Barbara Gittings picketing Independence Hall July 4, 1966. Photo taken by Kay Lahusen.   v • d • e 

10 In many societies of ________, especially in Papua New Guinea, same-sex relationships were an integral part of the culture until the middle of the last century.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the movie The Iron Ladies is based on a real-life team of transsexuals and homosexuals that won the Thai national volleyball tournament.
  • the homosexual content of the works of António Botto led Catholic students to call for the author's hanging.
  • the 1920 French film Le Menage Moderne Du Madame Butterfly is the earliest known hardcore pornographic film to depict bisexual and homosexual intercourse.
  • the 1929 film The Surprise of a Knight is the earliest known gay, hardcore pornographic film in American cinematic history.
  • the music video for Pirates of the Mississippi's 1991 single "Feed Jake" was believed by some members of the gay community to have a homosexual theme.
  • the Vietnamese "poet of love" Xuân Diệu wrote a poem about the love affair between the French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, fueling speculations that he himself was homosexual.
  • the author of Hollywood Undercover posed as an aspiring gay actor while investigating claims of a Church of Scientology "cure" for homosexuality.
  • the Emerald Warriors are Ireland's first primarily gay rugby team.
  • the Council of Nablus, held in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1120, established punishments for adultery, bigamy, homosexuality, and sexual relations with Muslims.
  • openly gay novelist Gordon Merrick's book The Lord Won't Mind spent 16 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list in 1970, at a time when most authors would not write about homosexual themes for a mass audience.
  • during one trial of the Mexican Inquisition, 123 men were accused of homosexuality but 99 managed to escape before the proceedings.
  • Norwegian researchers published Gay Kids in November 2008 to educate children about homosexual love.
  • Mohamed Camara's 1997 film Dakan was the first West African film to explore homosexuality.
  • homosexuality has been labeled by some communists as a product of bourgeois decadence.
  • 97% of the letters from viewers of The Rejected, the first documentary about homosexuality to air on American television, were positive.
  • Tanaz Eshaghian's film Be Like Others explores the experiences of transsexuals in Iran, a country that outlaws homosexuality but sanctions sex-reassignment surgery.
  • Leo Abse (born 1917) was a Labour Member of Parliament largely responsible for legalising male homosexual relations in the United Kingdom.
  • The Love of Siam director Chukiat Sakweerakul (pictured) intentionally sought to downplay the 2007 Thai film's gay love story in marketing materials, in hopes of the film reaching a broader audience.
  • Tearoom Trade, a study by sociologist Laud Humphreys of homosexual acts taking place in public toilets, caused a major debate on ethics in observation.
  • Marc-André Raffalovich, a French poet, writer on homosexuality, and patron of the arts, had a life-long relationship with John Gray, the purported model for Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray.
  • "The Snowman" was likely the product of Hans Christian Andersen's homoerotic ardor for Harald Scharff, a ballet dancer at the Royal Danish Theatre.
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