Amy Schneider, our favorite Jeopardy! stars, winning streak has come to end at 40 games & $1.3 million dollars. Florida Rupblican’s are pushing through more homophobic lesgilation; this time the focus is education. Yesterday Zaya Wade shared a touching tribute on Instagram to  Kobe & Gianna Bryant. 

00:00 – Welcome & Intro

00:30 – The Qube Ad

00:53 – Intro Music

01:34 – Amy Schneider, our favorite Jeopardy! stars, winning streak has come to end at 40 games & $1.3 million dollars

02:40 – Florida Rupblican’s are pushing through more homophobic lesgilation; this time the focus is education

06:53 – Yesterday Zaya Wade shared a touching tribute on Instagram to  Kobe & Gianna Bryant

07:26 – Anna’s Got A Word

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Family, this is your favorite queer radio personality Anna DeShawn here with our queer news from today.

Amy Schneider, our favorite Jeopardy! stars, winning streak has come to end at 40 games & $1.3 million dollars. Florida Rupblican’s are pushing through more homophobic lesgilation; this time the focus is education. Yesterday Zaya Wade shared a touching tribute on Instagram to  Kobe & Gianna Bryant. 

Our leading story for today is about Amy Schneider. Our Jeopardy! champion’s winning streak has come to an end at 40 games. That’s right she ended with 40 wins and $1.38 million dollars in winnings. She has etched her name alongside the greats as she is second all time with the most wins and fourth all time in cash winnings. To give some context here no one has won this many games since Ken Jennings and that was 15 years ago. Amy said this after the loss, “It’s really been an honor. To know that I’m one of the most successful people at a game I’ve loved since I was a kid and to know that I’m a part of its history now, I just don’t know how to process it.” I’m sure it’s a whole lot to process and we are here rooting you on. The next time we’ll see Amy on Jeopardy! Is for the tournament of champions. She will be the first trans person to compete and it will be fun to see how she does against the best of the best. Go Amy! 

Now in political news, Florida’s homophobic polticians have passed an anti-LGBTQ education bill in committee that is now headed to the house floor for a vote. Ya’ll this is just one of hundreds of these anti-LGBTQ bills Republicans have been pushing since last year. This bill is known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill and let me tell you why. If this passes through the house & senate it would make it illegal for K-5 teachers to discuss anything related to LGBTQ identities in the classroom. No LGBTQ history. No teaching of diverse families. An example, if a fifth grade student writes a paper on their lesbian moms the teacher would be mandated by law to stop them and shut them down. To add insult to injury, the bill gives parents the right to sue the school if a teacher talks or “encourages classroom discussion” about LGBTQ people or issues. Chasten Buttigieg retweeted Equality Florida on this topic and said “42% of LGBTQ youth seriously considered attempting suicide last year,” … “Now they can’t talk to their teachers?” Yea that’s pretty much what’s happening here. All this in the state where the Pulse Nightclub massacre took place. Pulse, which until a couple of months ago was the deadliest mass shooting in the United States and the nation’s worst terror attack since 9/11. Rep. Carlos Smith, Florida’s first LGBTQ Latino lawmaker posted a heartfelt video about the devastating effects this bill could have if it actually passes. Hear what he had to say [PLAY CLIP]. Well said Rep. Smith and I also want to show some love to state Senator Tina Polksy who said what we’re all thinking during a hearing in the Senate Education Committee. She said, “You have a choice. If you don’t like what you see in the schools… then don’t go. Then homeschool your kid … If you want them insulated so much that they shouldn’t learn about the outside world, you can homeschool or you can send them to a religious private school with voucher money. We have made that immensely available.” Also in committee is Senator Shevrin Jones who is the first out Black gay man elected to the state senate. After sitting through homophobic statements from parents he couldn’t hold back any longer and added, “As a gay man, to sit here in committee, to hear that, there was no book that I read that brought me to who I am,”… “And even your children. I don’t care what you may try to do to think that you are protecting them. The one thing you are obligated to do, like my mother and my father did, is to love them for who they are.” Children would be more damaged from the accusations and ugly insults they would have heard slung around the chamber than anything they could possibly read in a book. Now I will say this, our comrades are speaking up against this hate but we know these Florida Republicans have a lot more to give. I just hope this doesn’t actually pass. 

Now what gives me hope is Zaya Wade. She served up a beautiful tribute to Kobe & Gianna yesterday on Instagram wearing a long, yellow Laker’s jersey dress with the number eight on it which was accompanied by a long paisley printed yellow skirt. Yesterday marked the two year anniversary of their tragic deaths alongside the 7 other people in the helicopter that day. It’s still surreal for me so I can only imagine how it is for the families and friends of those who lost their lives. You can check out the tribute on Zaya’s IG page. 

You know we always end with a word of the day. Today’s word is coming from one of my favorite’s Nelson Madela. He said, “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living”. Family, do not dim your light. Do not play small. Never ever settle. Take whatever you’re passionate about and step into it with everything you’ve got. Give it everything and leave nothing behind. In that you will find the success you seek. Till tomorrow family, peace. 

Sources

Jeopardy! | Amy Schneider’s Win Streak Ends at 40 Games

Overheard On Set: ‘i Was Worried About You All Day’

https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/overheard/overheard-set-i-was-worried-about-you-all-day

Florida Republicans are trying to ban teachers from talking about LGBTQ people

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/01/florida-republicans-trying-ban-teachers-talking-lgbtq-people/

Florida lawmaker tells homophobic parent exactly what we all want to say

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/01/florida-lawmaker-tells-homophobic-parent-exactly-want-say/

Zaya Wade Pays Tribute To Kobe And Gianna Bryant In Yellow Lakers Jersey Dress

https://www.yahoo.com/now/zaya-wade-pays-tribute-kobe-225133033.html

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