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1. This refers to an "in your face" style of politics where sexual expression is always something capable of change, redefinition, and subversion. Directly challenges power structures and confronts normalizing power by exaggerating one's own anti-normative characteristics.
Homophile Politics
Gay Politics
Queer Politics
Conservative Politics
2. This is an alternative kinship network, formed to negotiate racism in white society and homophobia in the Black and Latino Communities. It is centered around performance.
Chosen Family
Ballroom House
Gayborhood
Drag Family
3. Which of the following is true of Two Spirit Individuals?
It is an exclusively Native American gender identity category tied heavily to Native American culture and history.
It is a fluid gender category that any member of the community may identify with.
It is a category of sexual orientation.
This is a community that is well represented in LGBTQ+ organizations
4. Under what theory is it argued that people will be more likely to increase support for LGBTQ+ policies when they share a salient social or political identity with the communicator and the message they deliver is unexpected?
Interpersonal Contact
Receive Accept Sample
Social Contagion
Dissonant Identity Priming
5. Fill in the Blank: Through __________ representation, representatives are in their own persons and lives in some sense typical of the larger class of persons whom they represent.
Substantive
Dyadic
Descriptive
Gyroscopic
6. What do we call any political reaction that attempts to curtail or reverse the political gains, including electoral and policy gains, of a previously marginalized group or coalition?
Underrepresentation
Whiplash
Backlash
Symbolic Representation
7. This artist has made waves for their practice of telling stories that had previously been underrepresented in their genre, specifically those of Black gay men.
Lil Nas X
Troye Sivan
Nicki Minaj
Post Malone
8. Which of the following best describes subjectivity?
Identity is externally imposed.
Identity is always perceived as innate and fixed.
Identity is always perceived as capable of construction, invention, change.
Identity is influenced by television.
9. Which of the following is true of "transgender" as a political category?
At least initially, it was a coalition of diverse identities that cohere around a shared experience of oppression through gender norms.
Public Backlash has not affected the mobilization of the community.
This group was easily incorporated in gay and lesbian groups.
This category has not been influenced by interest group politics.
10. Fill in the Black: According to Heath Fogg Davis, the policing of gender norms required by legal enforcement of sex segregated bathrooms turns patrons and employees of public spaces into
Gender Police
Bathroom Bouncers
Restroom Representatives
Fashion Police
- Can you identify a Critique of Queer Politics discussed by Cohen?
- According to Michelson and Harrison, what influences the public to change its position on issues like marriage equality?
- For the LGBTQ+ community, explain the connection between descriptive and substantive representation?
- How might the representation of the LGBTQ+ community lead to a backlash within state legislatures?
- What are some of the problems of enforcing sex-segregation in public restrooms?
- How did "transgender" as political identity category evolve as it came to be more institutionalized?
- Considering the experiences of LGBTQ+ Asian Americans, how might one's racial background influence their experiences in the LGBTQ+ Community?
- What do we mean when we say RuPual's Rag Race both represents and produces drag culture?
- Consider the readings discussing LGBTQ+ representation: We saw that increases in the descriptive representation of LGBTQ+ individuals in legislatures leads to increases in the substantive representation of the community. We also saw that there are unique challenges and considerations for LGBTQ+ Politicians. What factors influence the representation of LGBTQ+ people in legislatures? How does LGBTQ+ status influence the behavior of LGBTQ+ candidates and elected officials?