This activist recounts campaigning against the Briggs Initiative in the memoir When We Rise, which inspired a 2017 docuseries by Dustin Lance Black with the same name. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this activist who devised the idea for the NAMES project, a quilt memorializing those who have died from AIDS that is often displayed on the National Mall.
ANSWER: Cleve Jones
[10m] Two answers required. Jones conceived the NAMES project after these two politicians were assassinated by Dan White in 1978.
ANSWER: Harvey Milk AND George Moscone (“muh-SKO-nee”) [accept answers in either order; accept Harvey Bernard Milk in place of “Harvey Milk”; accept George Richard Moscone in place of “George Moscone”]
[10e] Milk earlier encouraged Gilbert Baker to create this symbol to replace the pink triangle. Due to difficulty obtaining some fabric, this symbol did not include a pink section when it was first displayed at the Gay Freedom Day Parade in San Francisco.
ANSWER: rainbow flag [accept gay pride flag or LGBT pride flag or LGBT flag; prompt on rainbow or flag; reject “progress pride flag”]
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