Welcome to the (somewhat shorter this week) 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.
We’ll be testing your knowledge with a series of questions taken from our headlines this past week. Try the quiz without looking up the answers or open another tab and use our search function to find the answers. (We won’t tell.)
See how well you followed the LGBTQ+ news!
LGBTQ Nation Weekly News Quiz for the week of March 4, 2024
Which comedian recently said that they learned a “necessary” lesson from backlash over their anti-LGBTQ+ jokes?
Kevin Hart
Kevin Hart described experiencing a “come-to-Jesus moment” following widespread backlash to homophobic tweets he posted early in his career that resurfaced in 2018. Hart initially refused to apologize, insisting that he was not homophobic and that the posts no longer reflected his views.
In a recent interview, however, Hart sounded a very different note. “Sometimes it’s okay to take a step back and to be educated,” he said of the controversy. “I got a crash course. It was one that was necessary and needed.”
Voters in which California beach town approved a measure banning the Pride flag from being flown on city property?
Huntington Beach
On Tuesday, 58% of voters approved an ordinance passed last year by the City Council that exclusively allows government flags to be flown over City Hall. In addition to the Pride flag, the measure approved by voters bans religious flags and breast cancer awareness flags.
What pro-LGBTQ+ statement did President Joe Biden utter during his State of the Union speech?
"Transgender Americans: I have your back!”
During Biden's speech, he said, "I want to protect other fundamental rights! Pass the Equality Act, and my message to transgender Americans: I have your back!”
He also told Congress to pass the Equality Act, legislation that would enshrine LGBTQ+ civil rights into federal law.
During a heated television appearance, out Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg schooled which news anchor with his defense of "simple fact"?
Joe Kernan
During a debate on the border on CNBC's Squawk Box with Joe Kernan, the anchor was left speechless when Buttigieg rattled off a series of facts to prove the GOP's shortcomings and the Democrats' strengths.
Which state just passed a law to protect access to IVF?
Alabama
Alabama's supreme court declared embryos human beings last month, a decision that stopped several clinics from providing IVF, a fertility treatment that requires several fertilized eggs to be produced in a lab and then either be implanted, stored for later cycles, or possibly destroyed. The ruling put clinics at risk of being charged with murder.
The law shields clinics from liability without addressing the idea of whether embryos are people.
Which New Jersey city became the first official book sanctuary in the state, publicly committing to protecting endangered books from being banned?
Hoboken
Hoboken Public Library director Jennie Pu worked with the city council to declare the entire city a book sanctuary after the library was targeted by Libs of TikTok for hosting a Banned Books Read-A-Thon. Pu told LGBTQ Nation the community was overwhelmingly supportive of the initiative.
Which of the following inflammatory statements have been made by North Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson?
He has made all of these statements.
North Carolina's Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) has made all of the above inflammatory statements. He recently won the Republican nomination to become his state's next governor. He is also anti-abortion without exceptions, even though he himself paid for his now-wife to have an abortion while they were dating.
How did pro-LGBTQ+ activists respond when haters from the Westboro Baptist Church recently protested in favor of a nonbinary teen's death?
They blocked their protest with rainbow-colored umbrellas.
Pro-LGBTQ+ activists blocked the church members' hateful signs with rainbow-colored umbrellas. Only six protestors from the church arrived to celebrate the death of Oklahoma nonbinary teen Nex Benedict. The protestors — who were vastly outnumbered by 100 pro-LGBTQ+ activists — left after about 15 minutes.
Before dropping out of the presidential race, Nikki Haley became the first woman to win a GOP primary. Where was her first victory over Donald Trump?
Washington D.C.
In D.C.'s primary, Haley secured 63 percent of the vote, as well as all 19 delegates, while Trump garnered 33 percent. Haley celebrated the victory on X, writing, “Let’s do it. Thank you, DC! We fight for every inch.”
Then on Super Tuesday, she won Vermont's primary but lost every other state. She suspended her campaign.
Democratic senators from which state came under fire this week for requesting funding NOT be given to an LGBTQ+ center in their state?
Pennsylvania
Sens. Ben Casey (D-PA) and John Fetterman (D-PA) sent a letter to the chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations to request an end to a federal grant for the William Way LGBT Community Center after the LGBTQ+ organization came under fire from conservatives online.
Fetterman claimed that he never approved the letter being sent and blamed his staff. Casey said that the center shouldn't get the funding because it allowed a third party to host a BDSM workshop in the building.
