Understanding LGBT Terminology and Social Concepts Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

only after five years since its founding in 1991, Reel Affirmations became the fourth-largest LGBT film festival in the United States.

in the late 1960s, Philadelphia residents held Annual Reminder protests claiming that LGBT Americans did not enjoy the rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".

the success of Gay Weddings as counterprogramming to Super Bowl XXXVII led television network Bravo to develop additional LGBT-interest programming, including Queer Eye and Boy Meets Boy.

veteran LGBT rights activist Hank Wilson started or co-founded at least ten LGBT organizations in the San Francisco area.

when ABC's Birmingham, Alabama, affiliate WBMA-LP refused to air the Ellen coming out episode "The Puppy Episode", a local LGBT group sold out a 5,000-seat theatre so people could watch it via satellite.

in her 1992 documentary film Nitrate Kisses Barbara Hammer filmed an elderly lesbian couple having sex as part of an exploration of the repression and marginalization of LGBT history.

early audience members of Dublin's LGBT film festival Gaze risked being arrested as homosexuality was still illegal in Ireland.

Dykes on Bikes have regularly participated at gay pride events, such as Pride parades, Dyke Marches, and other LGBT events, such as the Gay Olympics, since 1976.

Barbara Hammer's Tender Fictions, one of a documentary trilogy on LGBT histories, focuses on the "constructedness" of the self.

Jim Foster and Madeline D. Davis were the first openly LGBT people to address a major U.S. national political convention when they spoke to the 1972 Democratic National Convention.

R Family Vacations offered the first all-gay and lesbian family vacation packages where LGBT parents can bring their children.

author Tom Spanbauer became so stressed while writing the LGBT novel The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon that he fainted in Penn Station.

African-American gay and transgender Ali Forney, once homeless himself, had a homeless LGBT youth center in New York City named after him for his work helping other youths.

Understanding LGBT Terminology and Social Concepts

1 The term is not adopted by all as some see that the lettering comes across as being too ________ or as an attempt to categorize various groups of people into one grey area word.

2 “SGL” (i.e. “same gender loving”) is sometimes favored among ________ as a way of distinguishing themselves from what they regard as white‐dominated LGBT communities.

3 [35] “MSM” (i.e. “________”) is clinically used to describe men who have sex with other men without referring to their sexual orientation.

4 Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual at the ________

5 [7][45][46] Some do not subscribe to or approve of the political and social solidarity, and visibility and human rights campaigning that normally goes with it including ________ marches and events.

6 The first widely used term, homosexual, was thought to carry negative connotations and tended to be replaced by homophile in the 1950s and 1960s,[18] and subsequently ________ in the 1970s.

7 [9][41][42] In some cases separatists will deny the existence or right‐to‐equality of non‐monosexual orientations and of ________.

8 [22][23] It was thought that transgender people were acting out stereotypes and bisexuals were simply gay men or lesbian women who were afraid to ________ and be honest about their identity.

9 [23] Although identical in meaning, “LGBT” may have a more ________ connotation than “GLBT” as it places the “L” (for “lesbian”) first.

10 LGBT (or GLBT) is an initialism referring collectively to lesbian, gay, ________, and transgender people.

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