Question
James R. Gaines’s “underground history” of this decade notes the Mattachine (“MAT-uh-sheen”) Society’s conservative turn after it purged the Communist Harry Hay. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this decade in which the Senate censured Joseph McCarthy after Lester C. Hunt committed suicide over his son’s arrest during the Lavender Scare.
ANSWER: 1950s [or the fifties; accept The Fifties: An Underground History]
[10h] Eric Cervini’s book The Deviant’s War profiles this astronomer, who was fired during the Lavender Scare in 1957. He coined the slogan “gay is good” and emphasized respectability in early homophile pickets.
ANSWER: Frank Kameny [or Franklin Edward Kameny]
[10m] Kameny tried to get arrested for soliciting to challenge these police units, which entrapped gay activists like Dale Jennings in the 1950s. The Newport scandal exposed an early undercover “squad” known by this generic term.
ANSWER: vice squads [or vice patrols; or morality squads or morality patrols; accept vice laws]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 11.67 | 88% | 25% | 4% |
Data
| Arizona State | Duke | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Harvard | Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago C | Kentucky | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Cornell A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Claremont Colleges | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Ottawa | Florida | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Indiana | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa State | Brown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Maryland | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| South Carolina | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU | Georgia Tech | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | North Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | McGill | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Michigan | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell B | Truman State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago D | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale B | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Waterloo | Stanford | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |