The Gay Rights Movement Flashcards
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| 13535171124 | The Limbic System | Where sexual drive comes from, operates independently from the "thinking brain" | 0 | |
| 13535193772 | Epigenetics | Explains that genes are capable of being turned on and off, and some environmental factors impact these "switches" | 1 | |
| 13535213230 | Fraternal Birth Order Effect | For each older brother a male has, his likelihood of being gay increases by 33% | 2 | |
| 13535251646 | Everrett Clippert | An early catalyst for change before 1969 when homosexuality was illegal in Canada | 3 | |
| 13535257975 | Stonewall riots | Police raid at an Inn in NYC in 1969, homosexuals showed resistance as a group and marked the beginning of the battle | 4 | |
| 13535287616 | American Psychiatric Association | This group removed homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders | 5 | |
| 13535306318 | 1985 | Sexual orientation was added to the list of characteristics that could not be discriminated against (Supreme Court Ruling) | 6 | |
| 13535319790 | 2005 | Same sex marriage legalized in Canada | 7 | |
| 13535322739 | 1992 | Gays and lesbians are allowed to serve in the Canadian Military | 8 | |
| 13535339715 | Conversion Therapy | Any formal therapeutic attempt to change the sexual orientation of individuals | 9 | |
| 13535359813 | Harms of conversion therapy | distress, anxiety, depression, negative self-image, personal failure, self-loathing, sexual dysfunction, difficulty sustaining relationships | 10 | |
| 13535380325 | Tactics | economic boycott (coors beer, businesses that didn't support gays), protests, marches | 11 | |
| 13536964368 | Alfred Kinsey | The first scientific researcher who conducted an in-depth study of human sexuality, and believed that human sexuality could be placed along a continuum | 12 | |
| 13536971869 | 1960 | Homosexuality was considered very deviant | 13 | |
| 13536975690 | 1969 | Homosexuality was de-criminalized in Canada | 14 | |
| 13536981707 | 1971 | First gay rights march was held in Toronto | 15 | |
| 13536985372 | 1973 | APA removed homosexuality as a classified mental disorder | 16 | |
| 13536988258 | 1977 | Quebec became the first jurisdiction in the world to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation | 17 | |
| 13536990978 | 1981 | Toronto's bathhouse raids led to a backlash against authorities who target non-violent and peaceful adults | 18 | |
| 13536998228 | 2001 | the first gay couple was legally allowed to adopt a child | 19 |