Why did Ron DeSantis backtrack on his book-ban law?

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.

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LGBTQ Nation Weekly News Quiz for the week of April 15, 2024

Why did gay MAGA Republican Alison Esposito recently hang up on a reporter?

1. He accused her of hypocrisy for having parents who are undocumented immigrants 2. He asked why she wasn’t paying her campaign staff 3. He accused her of being a traitor to LGBTQ+ people 4. He asked why half of her campaign staff abruptly quit He asked why she wasn’t paying her campaign staff

Alison Esposito is running for Congress in New York, but according to Times Union reporter Timmy Facciola, her campaign finance records show she did not pay her staff for three months after launching her campaign. It is also not known if she has since begun paying them. When asked about this by Facciola, she told him to submit another inquiry to her communications team before abruptly hanging up. The communications team, however, has reportedly been unresponsive.

 

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) vetoed 13 Republican bills, including one anti-LGBTQ+ bill. What was the goal of the anti-LGBTQ+ bill she vetoed?

1. To ban kids from seeing drag performers 2. To ban LGBTQ+ content from public schools 3. To define gender as sex assigned at birth 4. To ban gender-affirming care for trans youth To define gender as sex assigned at birth

The so-called “Arizona Women’s Bill of Rights,” vetoed by Hobbs, would have defined gender as sex assigned at birth and also banned trans people from using bathrooms and other facilities that do not align with the sex they were assigned at birth.

 

Critics said the bill would have erased trans and nonbinary people from public life in Arizona. Hobbs has vetoed other anti-LGBTQ+ bills in the past.

Rep. Lauren Boebert has endured a slew of challenges since switching districts. What was the latest roadblock in her campaign this week?

1. A massive fundraising nosedive 2. Allegations of corrupt financial practices by fellow congressional representatives 3. Revelations of an affair with a campaign staffer 4. An inability to name something she loves about her new district during an interview A massive fundraising nosedive

The anti-LGBTQ+ representative has been criticized as a carpetbagger for fleeing her district when it became apparent she was likely going to lose, and now Boebert has reportedly had her worst fundraising quarter in years.

The Supreme Court allowed which state's gender-affirming care ban to go into effect this week?

1. Pennsylvania 2. Texas 3. Idaho 4. Ohio Idaho

The Supreme Court mostly reinstated Idaho’s ban on gender-affirming health care for minors on Monday, overturning a lower court decision to block the transphobic law while Labrador v. Poe, a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality, moves forward in lower courts. The law will now go into effect for all but the two minors and their families who sued to stop it… and the justices’ written comments suggest that they may ultimately rule in favor of such bans.

 

What anti-LGBTQ+ law did appeals court overturn in West Virginia this week?

1. A law requiring websites with LGBTQ+ content to require 18+ age verification 2. A ban prohibiting transgender athletes from playing on sports teams matching their gender identity 3. A ban revoking the licenses of doctors who provide gender-affirming care to minors 4. A law outing LGBTQ+ students to their potentially unsupportive parents A ban prohibiting transgender athletes from playing on sports teams matching their gender identity

 

A federal appeals court overturned West Virginia’s transgender sports ban, saying it amounted to sex-based discrimination that violates laws prohibiting sex discrimination in schools. The state’s attorney general will likely appeal the ruling.

Why are some LGBTQ+ rights advocates like HRC starting to feel optimistic about the state of LGBTQ+ rights?

1. Several major anti-LGBTQ+ organizations have shuttered in the past three months 2. LGBTQ+ folks are running for public office in droves 3. More Republicans are speaking out against anti-LGBTQ+ laws 4. Anti-LGBTQ+ laws keep failing to pass Anti-LGBTQ+ laws keep failing to pass

 

Several advocacy groups, including the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), believe that the movement around anti-LGBTQ+ policies is losing steam as several red states ended their legislative sessions without passing dozens of proposed anti-LGBTQ+ laws.

A judge rejected a lawsuit from Nassau County, NY, as part of their attempt to violate LGBTQ+ rights. What did Nassau County want to do?

1. Ban discussions of LGBTQ+ issues in schools 2. Erase rainbow crosswalks installed by towns in the county 3. Ban trans girls from participating in girls' sports 4. End benefits for the same-sex partners of county employees Ban trans girls from participating in girls' sports

The county's executive banned trans girls from participating in sports, comparing them to "6-foot, 210-pound males." State Attorney General Letitia James started to challenge the ban under state anti-discrimination law, and the county sued her. 

But a judge sided with James: "The law is perfectly clear: you cannot discriminate against a person because of their gender identity or expression. We have no room for hate or bigotry in New York."

A gay furry group recently claimed to have hacked a right-wing media outlet — which outlet was it?

1. Fox News 2. One America News 3. Real America’s Voice 4. The Daily Wire Real America’s Voice

 

SiegedSec, a self-described hacker group of gay furries, claimed to have leaked data from Real America’s Voice, a far-media outlet that has platformed anti-LGBTQ+. The hacker group has previously targeted a transphobic pastor and state governments that passed bans on gender-affirming healthcare.

Why did an anti-LGBTQ+ activist recently claim that former President Donald Trump is too accepting of LGBTQ+ people?

1. Because Trump refused to march in an upcoming Straight Pride parade 2. Because Trump passed laws to protect same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples 3. Because the beauty pageant Trump once owned now accepts transgender contestants 4. Because Trump’s re-election campaign is escalating “his pro-homosexual policies” to try to win the election Because Trump’s re-election campaign is escalating “his pro-homosexual policies” to try to win the election

Peter LaBarbera — founder and president of the anti-LGBTQ+ organization Americans for Truth About Homosexuality — accused Trump of pushing pro-LGBTQ+ policies during his re-election campaign. In reality, Trump is considered one of the most anti-LGBTQ+ presidents of all time.

 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) recently signed a bill to curb book ban challenges. Who did he say the bill was written to target?

1. Extreme right-wingers challenging hundreds of books per week 2. A single teacher responsible for the majority of the state’s book challenges 3. A neo-Nazi group trying to ban all books about race from schools 4. Liberals abusing the system Liberals abusing the system

On Tuesday, DeSantis signed into law an education bill that included a limit on who can challenge books and how many challenges they can register. But DeSantis was targeting not the “frivolous” book challenges made by racist and anti-LGBTQ+ folks but rather liberals “abusing” the system to make a political point about the absurd overreach of Florida’s book-banning policies.

 

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