- Today we're going to be playing true
or false, LGBT edition.
- Queer facts.
- Honestly I'm just queer.
(laughs) - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- So my knowledge of the history of it,
not so good.
- For the longest time I didn't even know
how to refer to my own like preference in sexuality
as being pansexual.
- We never learned LGBTQ history in school so,
- Yeah.
- I didn't grow up with like any openly queer people
in my family or really too many openly queer people friends.
So I didn't learn a lot until like recently.
- So I took gender class in college.
- Oh great, so I'm with a genius.
- I mean we have a 50/50 shot to get it right.
- Massachusettes was the first state
to perform legalized gay marriage in the US?
(gasps) I know this one.
- Maybe true.
- I'm gonna say true.
- I think that's right.
- I don't think that's true.
- I feel like that's right.
They're pretty liberal.
- Oh. - What?
- Sweet, we're killing it right now.
- We are.
- Well I'll just walk out now.
I was so confident.
- In 2017, Oregon became the first state
to offer a third gender option
for driver's licenses and IDs?
- That is true.
- First state.
- I'm gonna say true.
- I'm gonna say true. - Yeah I'm gonna say true.
- This feels right to me.
- Okay, I'm gonna.
- I remember that.
I feel like I remember that being a news story
so that's true.
That's cool.
- All right.
- Incidences of gender identity
or sexual orientation-based discrimination
has increased over the past few years?
- Probably, sadly.
- I hope it's false but I feel like it's true.
- I think people are actually getting better about it.
Oh no. - Oh.
- That's kind of scary.
- According to the report opinions, like may have decreased
but I do think that we live in a time where it is
a lot safer to be openly queer.
- So I'm from Japan and I'm show Japan
is like getting better.
- Mmhmm.
- So I don't think that's happening in Japan.
- But you know what, I have faith
that things will get better, 'cause the kids, they get it.
33% of series regulars on broadcast television
are identified as LGBTQ characters?
- That's a lot false.
- False.
- Yeah that can't be right.
(laughs)
- Absolutely not.
- I'm gonna go ahead and say it's true,
only because it feels too specific to not be.
Dammit.
- I understand it's not going to be a hundred percent
but, - in an ideal world.
(laughs)
- Yes.
- There are no openly trans doctors
performing gender affirmation surgery?
- I feel like there's got to be one somewhere.
- Yeah, there's got to be one.
- False.
- I'm gonna unfortunately say that's probably true,
which is sad. - I hope it's not true.
- Oh oh my god. - Yay.
- It had to be false. - That's good.
- All right Dr Marci.
- Yay Dr Marci.
(laughs)
- I feel like I'm learning so much about queer history
and I love that.
- Things aren't so bleak.
- Carmilla, a novel about a lesbian vampire,
dream, was published in 1872 - a quarter
of a century before Dracula?
- What, and I've never heard of this?
- This is just for hope, I'm just gonna go with true.
- Yeah true.
- I just hope that's true. - I want it to be true.
- 'cause I want to look her up.
- That sounds to obscure not to be true.
- Yeah yeah.
(laughs)
- Yay! - yay!
Are we gonna read this book, how fun.
- I'm really curious.
- Also how progressive.
- So somebody make sure I look this up later.
- I have no idea.
- I know what I'm doing tonight.
- In 1972, Sweden became the first country in the world
to allow it's citizens to legally transition?
- Sweden is so, - I know it's Sweden
so I want to say true, but 1972 seems early
but I'm, - lets just do it.
- You know what, I'm gonna say true,
'cause I have faith in Sweden.
- Well good for Sweden.
- That's awesome.
- Yeah, Sweden.
- Homosexuality was not removed
from the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders until 1973?
- Which sucks. - True.
Yeah.
- I feel like it's probably much later than that.
- Like we have people like not too far removed from our age
who went through like conversion therapy
and they still exist today.
- It's crazy how in 1972 people were recognized in Sweden
to be legally transition and for 1973 we were still
seeing it as some sort of disorder in the US.
- Mmhmm.
- There's a secret gay slang language called Polari?
(laughs)
- I'm gonna go with true.
- I'll go with false just because I have no idea.
- Polari, that is true.
- I don't know. - If there is,
no one's told me.
What? - what?
- So cool,
what?
- New Zealand was the first country
to legalize gay marriage?
- I really think it is.
I feel like, I think that's true.
- I don't think this is true.
- Woo.
- All right.
- Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Netherlands, yeah.
- I had no idea.
- It's cool to live in a time where we have access
to so much knowledge and also a time where
our history isn't being pushed aside.
- Yeah, I learned a lot.
It was really interesting.
- Yeah.
- I'm really excited about this lesbian vampire.
- Carmilla, yeah.
- I want to read that and learn Polari.
- Polari.
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