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 November 6, 2023

Who was the nation's first out gay governor who announced this week he is running for office again 20 years after he resigned?

1. Jim McGreevey

2. Johnny Ellis

3. Barney Frank

4. Harry Britt

Jim McGreevey

Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey (D) officially announced Thursday that he is running for mayor of Jersey City in the 2025 election.

In 2004, he resigned as governor in a scandal that rocked the nation when he had an extramarital affair with a man while in office. He has since founded a reentry organization for formerly incarcerated individuals. His campaign video focused on second chances. 

Why did rapper Azealia Banks get enraged at singer Troye Sivan?

1. He called her out for her repeated homophobic statements

2. He called her "washed up."

3. He disagreed with her opinion on the Israel-Hamas war.

4. Because he said he liked one of her songs.

Because he said he liked one of her songs.

Sivan said in an interview that he liked Banks's song "212," calling it his "go-to pregame banger."

That set Banks off, calling him a pedophile (Sivan is gay) and an "expired twink."

"I would REALLY appreciate all of these f**kin civilian ass b**ches to stop mentioning me, stop dancing to my s**t in the club if you’re not going to treat me like a human and take back all the unfounded bulls**t you all used ur platforms to perpetuate," she wrote on social media.

 

 

This week, Christian photographer Bob Updegrove won the right to discriminate against LGBTQ+ couples in Virginia. Who represented him in his case?

1. The anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Liberty Counsel

2. The American Civil Liberties Union

3. The anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom

4. Former New York Mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani

The anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom

Bob Updegrove, a Christian photographer, sued the state of Virginia after it passed a 2020 law adding sexual orientation and gender identity to its non-discrimination laws. With the help of ADF, Updegrove filed a pre-enforcement challenge, meaning that he wanted to prove the law was unjust before it even affected him. The district court dismissed this effort, but Updegrove appealed. Now, he has settled with the state of Virginia, which has promised not to enforce the anti-discrimination law for Updegrove. The Supreme Court’s anti-LGBTQ+ decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis was used to justify the settlement. 

ADF has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and identifies itself as a “legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, the sanctity of life, parental rights, and God’s design for marriage and family.” The group has filed numerous lawsuits trying to turn back LGBTQ+ protections and also opposes reproductive freedom.

Ohio recently voted to add abortion protections to its constitution. What did Republicans do to try and help defeat the measure at the ballot box?

1. They claimed the amendment would legalize gender-affirming surgeries for minors

2. They told voters the protections would allow people to abort a "fully conscious" "unborn child" at any point of pregnancy

3. All of the things listed here

4. They removed thousands of registered voters from the voter roles

All of the things listed here

Ohio Republicans used all of the above methods — disinformation, voter purging, and fear-mongering — to help defeat the measure. However, they were unsuccessful.

The new amendment will allow state residents to “make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to” decisions about abortion, contraception, fertility treatment, miscarriage care, and continuing pregnancy. The amendment will also allow the state to restrict abortion after fetal viability — the point at which a baby can live outside of its parent’s body — except when it’s “necessary to protect the pregnant patient’s life or health.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to pass a law lowering out Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's salary to $1, citing a long list of attacks on him. Which one was NOT a reason she gave?

1. She accused him of faking a bike ride in D.C.

2. She said he wasted taxpayer money to get an award for "the way people have sex."

3. She said that he refused to give funding to a transportation project in her district.

4. She said he flew on "private jets"... that are owned by the federal government.

She said that he refused to give funding to a transportation project in her district.

House Republicans are trying to pass amendments to major spending bills this week lowering various Biden administration officials' salaries to $1. It's a partisan attack that is unlikely to become law.

Greene presented an amendment to lower Buttigieg's salary to $1, citing various conspiracy theories, lies, and even Facebook videos. She said that she saw a video online that "proved" Buttigieg fakes a bike ride in D.C.; that video has been rated "false" by several fact-checking organizations. She said he flew on an FAA plane to Canada to get an award for being gay; he went to Canada for an aviation regulatory conference and accepted an LGBTQ+ organization's award in the evening. She said he flew on "private jets" and then billed taxpayers, even though there is no record of these flights and the Department of Transportation denies it.

She did not, however, say anything about Buttigieg's actual work administering the Department of Transportation other than to complain about how he believes climate change is real.

Which Republican presidential candidate ended their performance at the third GOP debate by making a transphobic comment?

1. Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)

2. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

3. Tech entrepeneur Vivek Ramaswamy

4. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) made a quick transphobic comment at the end of the third Republican presidential debate tonight, saying, “If God made you a man, you play sports against men.” He has previously introduced a federal bill that would cut federal funding to any schools that allow transgender students to use locker room facilities matching their gender identity. 

He also said during his closing comments that the country should “turn back” to the Christian faith, even though approximately 122 million Americans across the nation aren’t Christian.

What was Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's latest scandal involving the employees of Disney's special tax district?

1. They are all refusing to work until DeSantis reinstates the old board

2. DeSantis lowered all of their salaries

3. DeSantis fired all district employees and replaced them with his own allies

4. They're quitting in droves because they hate Desantis's management

They're quitting in droves because they hate Desantis's management

More than 40 of 370 employees have quit their jobs with the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District since February, when DeSantis replaced Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District with his own appointed board. 

The AP obtained exit surveys from many of these employees, and together, these documents reveal a district that has stopped caring for its employees and community and instead is based on cronyism and political gain.

What did Pope Francis recently say that LGBTQ+ people could do in the Catholic Church?

1. Preists can bless trans people's gender transitions

2. A gay person can be a child's godparent

3. Same-sex couples can get married

4. Transgender people can be baptized

Transgender people can be baptized

In a document issued by the Vatican on Wednesday, Pope Francis wrote that trans people can be baptized and serve as godparents as long as it doesn't cause a "scandal" or "disorientation" in the church.

His document contradicts the attitude of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which has “historically rejected the concept of gender transition, leaving transgender people out of the church entirely.”

 

Which city recently designated a portion of itself as an LGBTQ Cultural District?

1. Oakland, California

2. Atlanta, Georgia

3. Seattle, Washington

4. Austin, Texas

Oakland, California

City leaders in Oakland, California have chosen to designate a portion of the town as an LGBTQ Cultural District. It is still under planning.

The designation is meant to “uplift the rich history of and cultivate a supportive environment for LGBTQ individuals, families, allies, and businesses in Lakeshore, and nurture a safe, vibrant, and welcoming community” according to the resolution to create the district.

In a crucial election, Democrats took control of the legislature in which state this week?

1. Virginia

2. Ohio

3. Wisconsin

4. Pennsylvania

Virginia

On Tuesday, Virginia’s entire General Assembly was on the ballot – and Democrats managed to hang on to the state Senate and flip the House of Delegates.

The results are a crushing blow to the GOP and the state’s Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who was counting on gaining control of the legislature to pass a 15-week abortion ban. The Democratic victory in the legislature also means the rights of trans Virginians will be protected. 

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