Over 160 trivia qutns and answers about Gay History our Specialized History tegory. Did you know the fun bs of trivia and tertg bs of rmatn?
Contents:
160 GAY HISTORY TRIVIA QUTNS, ANSWERS, AND FUN FACTS
* gay history questions *
Alexanr Wood was a Sttish merchant and magistrate who was at the center of a homosexual sndal 1810. What nickname was he given, which was based on a rogatory term for homosexual men at the time? It was suggted that the rape did not happen, the victim did not exist, and that Wood had ma the whole thg up orr to satisfy his homosexual urg.
" At the time, "Molly" was a rogatory term for homosexual men.
GAY RIGHTS
Years later, Wood purchased land that was given the nickname "Molly Wood's Bh" and this area is now part of Toronto's gay village. The Early Gay Rights Movement In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, found Chigo the Society for Human Rights, the first documented gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.
5 QUTNS ABOUT MAKG GAY HISTORY
Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. And durg World War II, the Nazis held homosexual men ncentratn mps, brandg them wh the famo pk triangle badge, which was also given to sexual predators. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.
The Los Angel anizatn ed the term “homophile, ” which was nsired ls clil and foced on sexual activy than “homosexual. ”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze.