Deck 4: LGBTQQIA Identities and Challenges

Question 1

Explain how the evolution of the term transgender encompassed meanings beyond the earlier cross-dressing element originally articulated by Virginia Prince?

Answer 1

(on pp. 95-98)

Question 2

Define the term pansexual. Why do the transgender and intersex regard this term as more inclusive for them?

Answer 2

(on p. 104)

Question 3

How does the definition of heteronormativity share similarities with heterosexism and compulsory heterosexuality?

Answer 3

(on pp. 104-105)

Question 4

Explain how women from the Pearl River Delta region in China practice a form of marriage resistance that defies the tradition of patrilocality?

Question 5

How is the term heterosexual privilege related to the notions of sexual stigma and homonegativity?

Question 6

Why are malicious attitudes toward bisexuals akin to those expressed by heterosexuals who detest gay men and lesbians?

Question 7

What factor(s) induce the "gay-related stress" that LGBTQ communities face daily? What is the best antidote against this stress for LGBTQ peoples?

Question 8

Explain why the transgender movement remains closely aligned with the gay community and gay activism?

Question 9

What are the important contributions of the Storms Scale for comprehending sexual orientation and why have some researchers contended that it has been misconstrued?

Question 10

Examine how the significance of Adrienne Rich's concept of compulsory heterosexuality emphasizes that women are subjected to men and devalue their own relationships with other women?

Question 11

What is the Klein Grid and why do researchers studying sexual orientation find it too problematic to use in their work?

Question 12

What does the letter "A" stand for in LGBTQQIA?

Question 13

Why do some researchers argue that greater contact with gay people can reduce homonegativity in American society?

Question 14

How did lesbian pulp fiction appeal to both straight men as well as lesbians?

Question 15

Define the term lesbian continuum. How does it respect the significance of homosocial relationships, including nonsexual ones?

Question 16

What does the second letter "Q" represent in LGBTQQIA?

Question 17

Why do some experts believe that Alfred Kinsey's scale fails to capture the broad range of human sexual orientation?

Question 18

In American society, why is bisexuality considered to be "hidden" from public discussion?

Question 19

Why do many trans people contend that the public's fascination with their transition and surgery diminishes their lives?

Question 20

Why does gender theorist David Halperin argue that although queer theory remains quite useful, it can have negative consequences for understanding LGBTQ cultures?

Question 21

Why have the LGBTQI communities rejected the term "transsexual" as outdated?

Question 22

What is a sou hei ceremony?

A) A divorce ceremony
B) A baptism ceremony
C) A wedding ceremony
D) A celibacy vow ceremony
E) A funereal ceremony

Question 23

Which group has reported greater rates of gay-related prejudice than European Americans?

A) Latinos
B) Native Americans/Alaskan Natives
C) Filipinos
D) Japanese Americans
E) Asian Indians

Question 24

Who first created the term "queer theory"?

A) Robin Ochs
B) David Halperin
C) Annamarie Jagose
D) Cooper Thompson
E) Teresa de Lauretis

Question 25

Who said the following quote: "To live in society is to live in heterosexuality"?

A) Michael Kimmel
B) Monique Wittig
C) Gregory Herek
D) Alfred Kinsey
E) Judith Butler

Question 26

What percentage of Americans in a 2018 Gallup Poll believed that gay and lesbian relations were morally wrong?

A) 45
B) 26
C) 55
D) 38
E) 30

Question 27

Who believed that transgender people are some of the most "visible and vulnerable members of gay communities?"

A) Laverne Cox
B) Dallas Denny
C) Shannon Price Minter
D) Laine Delaney
E) Jules Chyten-Brennan

Question 28

Who first distinguished the term homosocial from homosexual?

A) Fritz Klein
B) Randall Sell
C) James Weinrich
D) Susan Stryker
E) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Question 29

Who defined the term transphobia?

A) Eiko Sugano
B) Rebecca Shuster
C) Andrea Sankar
D) Paisley Currah
E) Michael Warner

Question 30

Who wrote the book Borderlands/La Frontera?

A) Emma Tenayuca
B) Cherríe Moraga
C) Carmen Carrera
D) Gloria Anzaldúa
E) Francisca Flores

Question 31

Which factor precipitated the decline of the sisterhoods in China?

A) World War II
B) The silk industry depression during the 1930s
C) The Boxer Rebellion
D) May 4^th Movement
E) Tiananmen Square Uprising

Question 32

Who made the following statement? "In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence."

A) Alison Bechdel
B) Susan Basow
C) Rebecca Shuster
D) Scott Keiller
E) Adrienne Rich

Question 33

When did the word "Queer" become appropriated in a "gay affirmative" sense?

A) 2000s
B) 1960s
C) 1980s
D) 1970s
E) 1990s

Question 34

What statement best defines the custom of patrilocality?

A) Married couples who reside with the wife's maternal grandfather's family.
B) Married couples who live with the husband's uncle's family
C) Married couples who reside with the wife's uncle's family.
D) Married couples who live with the husband's paternal grandfather's family.
E) Married couples who reside with the husband's family.

Question 35

Which country does not have the death penalty for same-sex relationships?

A) Iraq
B) Mauritania
C) Sudan
D) Yemen
E) Saudi Arabia

Question 36

Who wrote the book On Lies, Secrets, and Silence?

A) Anna Louise Keating
B) Jeffrey Escoffier
C) Adrienne Rich
D) Vivien Ng
E) Lynda Goldstein

Question 37

Harvey Milk High School in New York City is founded for what particular group?

A) The hearing impaired
B) Atheists
C) Evangelicals
D) Athletes
E) LGBTQ youth

Question 38

For both men and women, transphobia is not correlated with one of the following factors?

A) Right-wing religious authoritarianism
B) Political libertarianism
C) Religious fundamentalism
D) Hostile sexism
E) Benevolent sexism

Question 39

Who asserted that the term bisexuality be applied only to those who had sexual desire for both sexes that is more than sporadic or incidental?

A) Robin Ochs
B) Holly Boswell
C) Samuel Janus
D) Kenji Yoshino
E) Laura Erickson-Schroth

Question 40

When did Alfred Kinsey add an "X" category to his Kinsey Scale to account for those with no "socio-sexual contacts or reactions"?

A) 1948
B) 1955
C) 1947
D) 1950
E) 1952

Question 41

Who made this statement: "Without community, there is no liberation"?

A) Ayisigi Gonel
B) Marjorie Topley
C) Audre Lorde
D) Susan Bascow
E) Laura Louderback

Question 42

Which is not a form of microaggression against LGBT people of color?

A) Gay bars that reject African American customers.
B) Being sexually objectified by race by other LGBT people.
C) Experiencing racism in dating situations.
D) Racism within the LGBT communities.
E) A state law that refuses to recognize the legality of same sex marriage.

Question 43

What statement best describes the term monosexual?

A) A platonic relationship
B) People with a sexual orientation toward only one sex.
C) People who has one sexual partner for life.
D) People who express neutral feelings about sexual activity.
E) People who have sex with a different person once a month.

Question 44

Transgender people played a key role at what famous 20^th century American protest?

A) Miss America Pageant protest
B) Million Woman March
C) Selma to Montgomery March
D) The Stonewall Riots
E) The March on Washington

Question 45

The Pearl River region is located where in China?

A) Southern China
B) Northeastern China
C) Western China
D) Southwestern China
E) Northern China

Question 46

Which statement best describes the term defensive-expressive homophobia for men?

A) Individuals try to gain the support of others and boost their own self-esteem by articulating homophobia.
B) Individuals convey homophobia as part of a larger value system of right and wrong, such as conservative ideology.
C) Individuals express homophobia as a means to deal with anxiety over their own heterosexual masculinity.
D) Individuals demonstrate their homophobia as a cultural ideology that is embedded in institutional practices that discriminate against sexual minority groups.
E) Individuals who internalize their homophobia toward themselves.

Question 47

Psychologist Gregory M. Herek stated that the term heteronormativity is important because it draws attention away from the heterosexual-homosexual binary that informs American society's notion of sexual orientation.

Question 48

The celebrity status of Christine Jorgensen during the 1950s generated public recognition of what was then called "transsexualism."

Question 49

Asexuals are different from people who are celibate.

Question 50

Women from the Pearl River Delta region in China often worked in the silk industry.

Question 51

Bayard Rustin, an advisor to Martin Luther King, received the public recognition for organizing the 1964 March on Washington.

Question 52

Audre Lorde often raised issues regarding homophobia and racism in her literary work and social activism.

Question 53

Psychologist Scott Keiller notes that men who embody traditional masculinity ideology are more likely to express hostile attitudes toward gay men.

Question 54

Queer has become popular as an adverb.

Question 55

The Golden Orchid Associations promoted marriage for women in China.

Question 56

Straight women display less fervent homophobic attitudes than straight men.