Welcome to the weekly LGBTQ Nation News Quiz. We’ve kept you up-to-date on politics, current events, and news from the LGBTQ+ community all week. Now, this is your chance to look back on what happened.
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LGBTQ Nation Weekly News Quiz for the week of September 18, 2023
This week marked the 12th anniversary of which landmark LGBTQ+ political event?
The repeal of the gay and bisexual military ban, "Don't Ask Don't Tell"
To commemorate the 12th anniversary of the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, out gay Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA) and other Congress members introduced legislation to create a commission to study the impacts that the gay military ban had on queer and non-queer military members.
Which country musician said they're leaving the industry because of rampant racism, homophobia, transphobia, and misogyny?
Maren Morris
Maren Morris recently released a two-son E.P., saying it's a first step away from the country music machine and the culture wars being waged within it.
She said that Donald Trump's election in 2016 had an ugly influence on the country music industry.
“It just revealed who people really were and that they were proud to be misogynistic and racist and homophobic and transphobic,” she wrote. “All these things were being celebrated, and it was weirdly dovetailing with this hyper-masculine branch of country music. I call it butt rock."
Who did Mike Pence recently defend for blocking Senate approval of over 300 military promotions in protest of the military's pro-abortion policies?
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)
While speaking at a summit of the anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Family Research Council, presidential candidate Mike Pence declared that “Tuberville is right and the Pentagon is wrong.”
He said on his first day as president, he would “direct the Department of Defense to stop using taxpayer dollars to undermine pro-life laws in states around the country.”
A Florida official declared that the state "does not ban books" after releasing a list of books that had been banned during the 2022-2023 school year. How many books were on the list?
300
A report from the Florida Department of Education (DOE) has revealed that approximately 300 books were removed from schools across Florida during the 2022-2023 school year. Many of the books included LGBTQ+ content or characters.
Despite all of this, Florida DOE spokesperson Caily Myers told NBC News that "Florida does not ban books.”
An actress accused showrunner Ryan Murphy of not following through on a promise to make a season of "American Horror Story" led by a cast of all Black women. Who was that actress?
Angelica Ross
Actress Angelica Ross called out Murphy for saying that he would make that season of the popular show in 2020 and even shared emails he sent her about it. She said that she missed a chance to work on a Marvel film because she was expecting him to follow through.
“It’s not JUST that the idea changed,” she tweeted. “Things change all the time. It’s that I called business affairs for MONTHS trying to get clarity if they were picking up my contract option or if I was ok to tell Marvel that I was available for whatever they were calling me for. I had been auditioning for THREE YEARS for marvel. It’s that I was HELD in first position the whole time.”
Which city's mayor recently became the target of right-wing vitriol after video of him getting spanked by a dragged queen at a private event was leaked?
Burbank, California
Burbank Mayor Konstantine Anthony was secretly recorded during a private Drag Queen Bingo fundraiser during which he was spanked with a paddle by a drag queen. The video was posted by anti-LGBTQ+ activist Chaya Raichik, who goes by “Libs of TikTok” online.
Anthony said it led to city officials being subject to “some of the most vile hate speech that I have ever seen.”
Residents of Palm Springs, California complained this week because a proposed AIDS memorial sculpture resembled what?
An anus
The Palm Springs AIDS Memorial Task Force promised to redesign the 19-foot, donut-shaped sculpture after people complained that it looked like an anus.
The artist originally said that the sculpture's clear center was supposed to offer viewers "a connection, a sense of hope, a view beyond what is directly in front of you.”
Missouri GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Eigel recently promised to do what if elected?
Burn books on the front lawn of the governor's mansion
Eigel was involved in a controversial symbolic book burning last weekend and then made it clear he’s also prepared to burn real books.
“In the video, I am taking a flame thrower to cardboard boxes representing what I am going to do to the leftist policies and RINO corruption of the Jeff City swamp,” Eigel wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “But let’s be clear, you bring those woke pornographic books to Missouri schools to try to brainwash our kids, and I’ll burn those too – on the front lawn of the governor’s mansion.”
A Texas middle school recently fired an eighth-grade English teacher for assigning lesbian passages from which book?
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Hamshire-Fannett Independent School District fired the unnamed teacher after she assigned students a reading from Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation. The offending passages included ones in which Frank described her genital changes during puberty, her attraction to other girls, and her desire to see her female friend's breasts.
Which former RuPaul's Drag Race alum made a music video mocking Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), and other anti-LGBTQ+ conservatives?
Morgan McMichaels
Morgan McMichaels, who competed in season two of RuPaul’s Drag Race and season three of RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars made a parody music video of Kylie Minogue’s massively popular song “Padam Padam” called “Urdumb Urdumb.” The parody showed depicted Greene and Boebert fighting in a bathroom and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) wearing a tin foil hat.
