For 10 points, name this group of people whose sexual orientation was blamed for the AIDS crisis.
The testimony of John Peurifoy sparked a backlash against these people, whose mid-twentieth-century activists included Donald Webster Cory and Frank Kameny. The Mattachine Society and ACT UP were two large organizations of these people, who were the primary participants in the White Night Riots. A large study on these people, whose rights were at issue in Bowers v. Hardwick, was conducted by Alfred (*) Kinsey. The Lavender Scare persecuted this group, whose namesake liberation movement was spurred by the Stonewall Riot and the career of Harvey Milk. For 10 points, name this group of people whose sexual orientation was blamed for the AIDS crisis.
The testimony of John Peurifoy sparked a backlash against these people, whose mid-twentieth-century activists included Donald Webster Cory and Frank Kameny.
gay people [or homosexuals; or LGBTQ people; or queer people; accept equivalents; if they answer with "lesbian(s)," "bisexual people," "transgender people," or equivalents, prompt by saying "they want something more general"]