A judge struck down an anti-trans sports ban in Nassau County, New York this week after a women's team in what sport sued to support its trans members?
Roller derby
A judge sided with the Long Island Roller Rebels against Nassau County executive and Republican Bruce Blakeman, who issued an executive order that banned trans women from participating in women’s sports. The judge said Blakeman did not have the authority to instate such a sweeping order.
Which anti-LGBTQ+ hate group recently jumped on the bandwagon to join the more than 20 states suing the Biden Administration over its new Title IX rules protecting LGBTQ+ students?
Moms for Liberty
The extremist group has joined a lawsuit led by the states of Alaska, Kansas, Utah, and Wyoming against the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. The suit refers to “transgender ideology” as a “left-wing fad” that has nothing to do with Title IX.
Which former Trump aide this week bragged about purposely getting innocent homeless people arrested?
Johnny McEntee
Trump's former personal aide and current campaign staffer Johnny McEntee has been slammed for a recent TikTok video in which he proudly explains how he gives fake money to homeless people so that they will get arrested when they try to use it.
Which small European country recently passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriages?
Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein's parliament passed a same-sex marriage bill this week, making it the 22nd European country to do so. Wedged between Austria and Switzerland, Liechtenstein is Europe’s fourth-smallest country.
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An LGBTQ+ person from which country won this year's Eurovision Song Contest?
Switzerland
Swiss pop star Nemo was voted the winner of this year's Eurovision in Malmo, Sweden, performing their song "The Code." The athletic and nonbinary 24-year-old spun on a vertiginous turntable, clad in tights and a cheerleader’s skirt topped with a feathery confection in pink and red.
“This story is my truth,” Nemo sang, as the audience joined in unison for the track’s catchy hook: “Whoa-ooh-oh-oh!”
Nymphia Wind, the recent winner of RuPaul's Drag Race, made history this week by being the first drag queen to do what?
Perform in front of Taiwan's president
Wind performed for Taiwan’s pro-LGBTQ+ President Tsai Ing-wen.
“This is probably the first presidential office in the world to host a drag show,” Nymphia told Tsai after the performance.
What anti-LGBTQ+ bill did Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) sign into law this week?
A bill allowing cis people to sue trans bathroom users
Gov. Reeves signed a law allowing cisgender people to sue transgender individuals for using the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity. The law requires trans people at all state public education institutions to use facilities aligned with their sex assigned at birth.
Speaker Mike Johnson was skewered this week for saying what about Donald Trump?
His hush money trial is a sham by the DOJ
Johnson recently spoke to the press outside the courthouse and referred to the trial as a “ridiculous prosecution that is not about justice” but rather “all about politics.” Many mocked Johnson for claiming to be pious yet defending Trump for paying to cover up adultery.
Which famous anti-LGBTQ+ person's statue recently replaced a statue of white supremacist Charles Aycock in Congress?
Pastor Billy Graham
A statue of influential anti-LGBTQ+ evangelical Christian Rev. Billy Graham replaced Aycock's. Aycock sought to permanently subjugate Black people. Graham considered homosexuality to be a “sinister form of perversion” and AIDS as a punishment from God for being gay.
GOP candidate Valentina Gomez made headlines with her campaign slogan "Don't be weak and gay." What is she running for?
Missouri secretary of state
"In America, you can be anything you want. So don’t be weak and gay. Stay f**king hard," Gomez said in a video that went viral. She has been using that phrase - weak and gay - for months now.
She then said that the Biden administration is "weak and gay" and that there are too many "pu**ies" in U.S. politics as she makes a bid for Donald Trump's endorsement before her primary.
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