Who Am I?
This person is your instructor for this course and is reading this clue to you right now.
Who is Genie (Ruzicka)?
This is the first assignment you have to submit.
What is the Introductory Google Form?
What is the LGBTQ+ community?
This code regulated the content of movies produced by Hollywood, starting in 1934.
What is the Hays Code?
This is the name of the Senator who led hearings to root out Communists and Homosexuals from government in the 1950s.
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
Your teacher (me) works for this department.
What is the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies?
This is the name of your first discussion assignment.
What is Getting to Know You?
What is television?
This system, run by the production companies, structured how Hollywood functioned in the 20s, 30s, and 40s.
This is where my office hours are held.
Where is Zoom?
This is the nickname for the course officially titled WST111: Introduction to Queer Studies.
What is LGBTV?
The course focuses on the events and media of this century.
What is the 20th century?
This actor and comedian was at the center of a sensationalized sexual assault trial and scandal which was one of the catalysts for Hollywood to adopt the Hays Code.
Who is Fatty Arbuckle?
This is the name of the main stereotype that homosexuals were portrayed as in the 50s.
What is a sissy?
This is the day of the week I hold office hours.
What is Monday?
This is a way we can stay connected as a class even though this course is asynchronous.
What is the virtual hangouts? (other answers accepted)
This is what the acronym LGBTQ+ stands for (bonus points for any of the extra letters).
What is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (Intersex, Asexual, 2 spirit, etc)?
These were the enemies of True (or Pure) Love in the early Victorian Era.
What are masturbation and prostitution?
These two colorful "scares" ramped up fear of communism and homosexuality within the United States Government in the 40s and 50s.
What is the Red Scare and the Lavender Scare?
This time period is when my office hours are held.
What is 11:30am-2:30pm?
In addition to television, these are other subjects this course will cover.
This was how the concept of "heterosexuality" was first discussed in the late 1800s.
This is what happened to stars in Hollywood when they were suspected or accused of having Communist ties/sympathies.
What is they were Blacklisted?