CURRENT EVENTS REVIEWER

Gay Rights Movement

INSTRUCTIONS: Read and answer the following items carefully. Shade the letter of the
correct answer in your ZipGrade answer sheet.
The quiz that you are about to take is TEXT-DEPENDENT, meaning the items are constructed
based from the readings that have been provided and assigned to you. Specifically, the main text
is https://www.britannica.com/topic/International-Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Trans-and-Intersex-
Association
1. What event sparked the annual a. 2005
commemoration of Gay Pride b. 2013
celebrations in June? c. 1990
d. 2020
a. The enactment of civil rights laws in the
United States 5. What legislation effectively ended the
b. The Stonewall riots at the Stonewall Inn ban on homosexuals in the U.S. military
bar in New York City in 2011?
c. The founding of LGBTQ+ organizations
a. Defense of Marriage Act
in western Europe
b. Equal Employment Opportunity Act
d. The legalization of same-sex marriage
c. Religious Freedom Restoration Act
globally
d. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act
2. In which country did the Buggery Act,
6. When did the United States add a
making sexual relations between men a
nondiscrimination clause for sexual
criminal offense punishable by death,
orientation to the Democratic Party's
originate?
platform?
a. France
a. 1970
b. Germany
b. 1980
c. Spain
c. 1990
d. England
d. 2000
3. Who founded the Mattachine Society,
7. Which country was the first to elect an
the first major male gay organization in
openly gay head of government?
the United States?
a. United States
a. Harry Hay
b. Canada
b. Phyllis Lyon
c. Iceland
c. Edward Carpenter
d. Germany
d. Del Martin
8. In what year did the Stonewall riots
4. When did the U.S. Supreme Court
take place?
recognize the right of same-sex couples to
marry?

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a. 1945 d. International Lesbian and Gay
b. 1969 Association
c. 1975
14. In what city was the Cultuur en
d. 1999
Ontspannings Centrum (COC)
9. Who founded the Daughters of Bilitis, a organization founded in 1946?
leading group for women in the LGBTQ+
a. Berlin
community?
b. Amsterdam
a. Harry Hay c. London
b. Phyllis Lyon d. Paris
c. Edward Carpenter
15. Who became the first openly gay
d. Del Martin
prime minister in 2009?
10. Which U.S. city became the largest to
a. Harold Wilson
elect an openly gay mayor in 2009?
b. Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
a. Los Angeles c. Angela Merkel
b. Chicago d. Justin Trudeau
c. New York City
16. Which U.S. state did Pete Buttigieg
d. Houston
become the first openly gay cabinet
11. Who was the first openly gay member in American history from?
politician elected to the U.S. House and
a. Illinois
later to the U.S. Senate?
b. Wisconsin
a. Jerry DeGrieck c. California
b. Nancy Wechsler d. Indiana
c. Barney Frank
17. What did the Wolfenden Report in
d. Harvey Milk
Britain recommend be removed from the
12. What did the Supreme Court case domain of criminal law?
Lawrence v. Texas in 2003 effectively
a. Prostitution
overturn?
b. Sodomy laws
a. Ban on hate crimes legislation c. Gambling
b. Ban on same-sex marriage d. Drug use
c. Ban on sodomy laws
18. Who founded the Society for Human
d. Ban on LGBTQ+ adoption rights
Rights in the United States in 1924?
13. Which organization was founded in
a. Harry Hay
1978 in Coventry, England, to promote
b. Phyllis Lyon
human rights for LGBTQ+ individuals
c. Henry Gerber
worldwide?
d. Del Martin
a. National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
b. ACT UP
c. Stonewall

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19. What organization did Edward
Carpenter and Havelock Ellis found in
1914 for sex psychology studies?
a. COC
b. Stonewall
c. Daughters of Bilitis
d. British Society for the Study of Sex
Psychology
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20. What did the Scientific-Humanitarian
Committee petition for the repeal of in
their first activity?
a. Ban on male same-sex relationships
b. End of workplace discrimination
c. Repeal of Paragraph 175 of the Imperial
Penal Code
d. Legalization of same-sex marriage
Answer Key
1. b. The Stonewall riots at the Stonewall Inn bar in New York City
2. d. England
3. a. Harry Hay
4. b. 2013
5. d. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act
6. b. 1980
7. c. Iceland
8. b. 1969
9. b. Phyllis Lyon
10. d. Houston
11. c. Barney Frank
12. c. Ban on sodomy laws
13. d. International Lesbian and Gay Association
14. b. Amsterdam
15. b. Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
16. d. Indiana
17. b. Sodomy laws
18. c. Henry Gerber
19. d. British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology
20. c. Repeal of Paragraph 175 of the Imperial Penal Code

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