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Your answers are worth 10 points. Please submit your answers as an attachment. There is a one (1) point deduction for each late day.

Use Chapter 4 in your textbook to answer the following:

1. Why does L come first in the LGBTQIAA acronym? What is your opinion of this?

2. Your textbook claims bisexuals often face discrimination from others in the LGBTQIAA category. Why?

3. Should Ally be included in the LGBTQIAA acronym? Why or why not? What should Allies contribute to the movement?

4. Should Pansexual be added to the acronym? Why or why not?

5. What are the dangers of having separate identity groups (like gay, lesbian, etc.)? Why is it beneficial or necessary?

6. Why do Latino and African American gay men endure greater incidents of microaggressions in their own communities and within the broader LGBT community?

7. Gillis and Jacobs explain that some people believe that transgender is a concept more aligned with sex/gender, not sexuality, and thus does not  in the LGBTQIAA acronym (p. 95-98. What does transgender belong in the acronym and not belong in the acronym?

8. Describe each of the following types of homophobia. In your opinion which is the most damaging? Explain your answer.

Internalized

Institutional

Defense-Expressive

Social-Expressive

Value-expressive

Use the section Identity First Language at the link below to answer the following:

9. What is Identity First Language? What is People First Language? Give three (3) examples from this section that were not included in Chapter 4 of your textbook.

Chapter 5

10. Define the following terms: Boston Marriage; Domestic heterosexuality; Personification of homosexuality; Pervasion of lesbian desire; Hijra