Slogans and Slang
A man who dresses in feminine clothing, uses feminine pronouns, or even uses a feminine name as a performance art, but does not identify as a woman.
What is a drag/street queen?
This series of explosive protests sparked due to police raids on a famous gay bar in Greenwich Village, New York City.
What are the Stonewall Riots?
She formed the transgender activist group STAR with fellow transgender icon Sylvia Rivera.
Who is Marsha P. Johnson?
STAR
What is the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries?
This slogan, coined by Frank Kameny to uplift the gay rights movement, was denounced as too “wishy-washy,” mellow, and easily counterable.
What is “Gay is Good?”
Protestors showered this object over prisoners being released for homosexuality charges after a raid on the Los Angeles gay bar The Patch.
What are flowers?
This activist group leader said “the revolution will not be complete until all men are free to express their love for one another sexually” in support of the gay rights movement despite not being gay himself.
Who is Huey P. Newton?
BPP
What is the Black Panther Party?
A closely related alternative word to “homosexual,” people of this label led a queer rights movement preceding the gay liberation movement that was criticized for its timid approach.
What is a homophile?
This required aspect of the gay rights protest at Independence Hall, Philadelphia on July 4, 1968 made the protest especially successful, alongside the requirement to behave in a “dignified and orderly fashion.”
What is a dress code?
This Air Force sergeant and Vietnam veteran was the first openly homosexual member of the U.S. military to oppose the army’s ban on homosexuals.
Who is Leonard P. Matlovich?
GLF (such as the New York or Boston GLF)
What is a Gay Liberation Front?