This document provides an agenda for a class that includes discussing film and early texts, presentations, and an exam review. It instructs students to change teams after each project and lists questions from students about the film, including why homosexuals faced prejudice and violence and how the LGBT community identifies each other. Additional questions address queer literature and how social conservatism influenced censorship. The homework assigns finishing a reading and posting a discussion question about themes of sexuality, masculinity, repression and isolation in the text.

2. AGENDA
Change Teams
Discussion
Film and early texts
Presentation:
Exam Review: Class 10

3. 1. You must change at least
50% of your team after
each project is completed.
2. You may never be on a team
with the same person more
than twice.
3. You may never have a new
team composed of more
than 50% of any prior team.

4. Change Teams!
Get into new
teams. If you
have trouble
finding a team,
merely raise
your hand, and
I will place you
on one.

5. QHQ: FILM
Q: Why were the homosexuals hated on?
Q: Does the documentary help people understand the prejudice
against people who identify as members of the LGBT community?
Q: Why leave out all the violence against queers?
Q: Why does it take until 1969 for the riot to take place?
Q: Why are people so afraid of Homosexuals?
Q: If homosexuals weren’t so acceptable, then would that increase
internalized homophobia?
Q: Why were the queer protesters so worried about their
appearance? and should they have been so concerned with
image?

6. Q: In the Before Stonewall film, gay men would identify
themselves with matching red handkerchiefs and by asking
each other for lights for their cigarettes. What are some ways
the LGBT community members make themselves known to
others?
Q: What are some other ways queer people identify themselves
to one another these days?
Q: Why was it that the number of gay authors during the era
was predominantly male and outnumbered females 5:1 as the
librarian in the film stated
How did the “growing social conservatism,” and its
accompanying censorship, influence the mainstream literary
canon we have today? Would there still be a separate Queer
literary canon if sexual orientation was never stigmatized?

7. QHQS: FILM AND TEXTS
Q: Did the existence of queer-specific publications have any effect
on the progress of the gay-rights movement or were they simply
serving as a symbol of solidarity and unity for queer people?
Q. Where does the need to code queer literature come from?
Q: Does the Before Stone Wall help us to understand queer
literature?
Q: Why has public started to be against gay people? Unlike the
film, why does every reading have sad endings?
Q: Despite there were tons of great gays and lesbians in world at
that time, WHY the literature from that time only contains tragic
characters?

9. 1. Terms: Fill in the blank
a. _____ _______ is concerned with issues of personal identity
and politics analogous to those analyzed by feminists
2. Passage Identification by author and work
a. He looked into the dull costly garden. It improved. A man had
come into it from the back of the yew hedge. He had on a
canary-coloured shirt, and the effect was exactly right. The
whole scene blazed. That was what the place wanted—not a
flowerbed, but a man, who advanced with a confident tread
down the amphitheatre, and as he came nearer Conway
saw that besides being proper to the colour scheme he was
a very proper youth.

10. 3. Character Identification
a. The sound of an approaching train awoke him, and he started to his feet,
remembering only his resolution, and afraid lest he should be too late.
He stood watching the approaching locomotive, his teeth chattering, his
lips drawn away from them in a frightened smile; once or twice he
glanced nervously sidewise, as though he were being watched. When
the right moment came, he jumped.
4. Author Identification
a. She is best known for writing about the landscape of the American
heartland and those who immigrated and settled there in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This is most vividly expressed
in her two most famous novels, O Pioneers! (1913) and My Ántonia (1918).
5. Short essay/Long answer
Using one or more texts, discuss what the works reveal about the operations
(socially, politically, psychologically) of heterosexism.

11. HOMEWORK
Finish Giovanni’s Room
Post #8: Choose one:
 QHQ on part 2
 Does David seem at peace with his sexuality?
When does he accept himself? When is he
ashamed? How do you know?
 What role does sexual desire play in notions of
masculinity? If David admitted that he was gay,
would his understanding of his own masculinity
change?
 Discuss repression in either Giovanni or David.
What are they repressing? How does repression
affect and shape their behavior?
 How is David isolated not only from others but also
from himself? What does it mean to be isolated
from oneself?