Author Question: Which of the following is NOT a recent success of the gay and lesbian rights movement in America? ... (Read 27 times)

sammy · **on:** Sep 3, 2018

Which of the following is NOT a recent success of the gay and lesbian rights movement in America?

A) Barack Obama became the first sitting president to say he supported same-sex marriage.
B) Gays and lesbians may now serve openly in the U.S. military.
C) Five openly gay members serve in the U. S. House of Representatives and one in the U. S. Senate (113th Congress).
D) In 2008 California voters became the first in the nation to reject a ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage.
E) In 2003 the highest court in Massachusetts ruled that same-sex couples in that state had a state constitutional right to wed.

Question 2

The event that served as the catalyst for the gay liberation movement in the United States was

A) the Montgomery bus boycott.
B) the New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade of 1984.
C) the Stonewall Riots.
D) the Watts Riot.
E) the Gay Pride March of 1971.