question: What is the nationality of the director of "Lesbian Request Denied"?
answer: American
context: Title: Jodie Foster
  Passage: Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and filmmaker who has worked in films and on television.  She has often been cited as one of the best actresses of her generation.  Foster began her professional career at the age of three as a child model in 1965, and two years later moved to acting in television series, with the sitcom "Mayberry R.F.D." being her debut.  In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in several primetime television series and starred in children's films.  Foster's breakthrough came in Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" (1976), in which she played a teenage prostitute; the role garnered her a nomination for an Academy Award.  Her other critically acclaimed roles as a teenager were in the musical "Bugsy Malone" (1976) and the thriller "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" (1976), and she became a popular teen idol by starring in Disney's "Freaky Friday" (1976), "Candleshoe" (1977) and "Foxes" (1980).
  Title: Nadine Smith
  Passage: Nadine Smith is an LGBT activist and has been the executive director of Equality Florida since its inception in 1997 and serves as a legislative lobbyist, living in Tallahassee during session.  In 1986, Smith served on the founding board of the International Gay and Lesbian Organization.  Smith has been recognized as a national leader by organizations including: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights Task Force of Florida, National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and the National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum.
  Title: Abdumalik Abdullajanov
  Passage: Abdumalik Abdullayevich Abdullajanov (Tajik: Абдумалик Абдуллоҷонов ; born January 1, 1949) is a Tajikistani politician.  He served as the Prime Minister of Tajikistan from September 21, 1992, to December 18, 1993.  He resigned as Prime Minister to become Tajikistan's first ambassador to Russia.  In 1994, he ran in the second presidential elections in Tajikistan but, according to official reports, lost to Emomalii Rahmon, Tajikistan’s current president.  After that, he left Tajikistan, stayed in Russia for several years, then moved to the United States in 1998 and lived there since then; Abdullajanov had refugee status there.  Abdullajanov was detained at Boryspil International Airport (near Ukrainian capital Kiev) on the request of the Tajik authorities upon arriving from Los Angeles on 5 February 2013.  Tajik authorities accuse Abdullajanov of plotting an assassination attempt on Rahmon on 30 April 1997, when the president was wounded in the leg.  Abdullajanov was also charged with organizing a riot in the Sughd Province which claimed dozens of lives in 1998.  Abdullajanov has denied any involvement in his interviews to Western media.  On 4 April 2013 Ukraine freed Abdullajanov from detention and refused a request to extradite him to his homeland.
  Title: Meyer v. Astrue
  Passage: Meyer v. Astrue, 662 F.3d 700 (4th Cir.  2011) was a landmark Social Security Disability Insurance case argued in Federal Court, resolving a conflict within the Circuit over the summary denial of requests for review when new evidence is submitted to the Appeals Council.  After suffering severe injuries in an accidental fall, Maurice Eugene Meyer applied for Social Security Disability insurance benefits.  An administrative law judge (ALJ) denied his claim, noting that Meyer failed to provide an opinion from his treating physician.  When Meyer requested review of his claim by the Appeals Council, he submitted a letter from his treating physician detailing the injuries and recommending significant restrictions on Meyer’s activity.  The Appeals Council made this letter part of the record but summarily denied Meyer’s request for review; thus, the ALJ’s decision denying benefits became the final decision of the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration.
  Title: The Fourth Dimension (Hypocrisy album)
  Passage: The Fourth Dimension is the third studio album by Hypocrisy, released on October 25, 1994.  The limited edition digipak (cat.-no.  NB 112-2 DIGI), not to be confused with the digipak re-release, had "The Abyss" instead of "The Arrival of the Demons".  This track was later re-recorded for "The Arrival" album.  The digipak re-release contains two bonus tracks: "Request Denied" and "Strange Ways" taken from the "Maximum Abduction" EP.  After the departure of vocalist Masse Broberg, Hypocrisy's lyrics began to focus more on the paranormal and science fiction.  The person on the cover is Mikael Hedlund, Hypocrisy's bass guitar player.
  Title: Same-sex marriage in the Fourth Circuit
  Passage: On July 28, 2014 the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling in "Bostic v. Schaefer" striking down Virginia's same-sex marriage ban which is a precedent for every state within the circuit.  The ruling would have gone into effect on August 21, 2014 but the Supreme Court of the United States granted the stay request by the clerk of Prince William County.  Attorneys for two same-sex couples had until August 18, 2014 to respond to the stay request.  The Fourth Circuit consists of Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.  Maryland was the first state in the circuit to enact gay marriage by legislative act and confirmed by a voter referendum.  That occurred prior to the Fourth Circuit Court ruling that was denied review at the Supreme Court, which led to the expansion to Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina.
  Title: Rohingya people
  Passage: The Rohingya people ( ; historically also termed Arakanese Indians) are a stateless Indo-Aryan people from Rakhine State, Myanmar.  There were an estimated 1 million Rohingya living in Myanmar before the 2016–17 crisis.  The majority are Muslim while a minority are Hindu.  Described by the United Nations in 2013 as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world, the Rohingya population are denied citizenship under the 1982 Myanmar nationality law.  According to Human Rights Watch, the 1982 laws "effectively deny to the Rohingya the possibility of acquiring a nationality.  Despite being able to trace Rohingya history to the 8th century, Myanmar law does not recognize the ethnic minority as one of the eight "national races".  They are also restricted from freedom of movement, state education and civil service jobs.  The legal conditions faced by the Rohingya in Myanmar have been compared with Apartheid.
  Title: Lesbian Request Denied
  Passage: "Lesbian Request Denied" is the third episode of the first season of American comedy-drama series "Orange Is the New Black" ("OITNB"), based on Piper Kerman's memoir, "" (2010), regarding her time at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison.  It was written by Sian Heder, and is one of two "OITNB" episodes directed by award-winning actress and director Jodie Foster.  The episode was originally released, simultaneously with twelve other episodes making up the first season, on American streaming service Netflix on July 11, 2013.
  Title: Achy Obejas
  Passage: Achy Obejas (born June 28, 1956) is a Cuban-American writer and translator focused on personal and national identity issues, living in Oakland, California.  She frequently writes on her sexuality and nationality, and has received numerous awards for her creative work.  Obejas' stories and poems have appeared in "Prairie Schooner", "Fifth Wednesday Journal", "TriQuarterly", "Another Chicago Magazine" and many other publications.  Some of her work was originally published in "Esto no tiene nombre", a Latina lesbian magazine published and edited by tatiana de la tierra, which gave voice to the Latina lesbian community.  Obejas worked as a journalist in Chicago for more than two decades, and is currently the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College in Oakland, California, where she teaches creative writing.
citations: Jodie Foster Lesbian Request Denied