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• FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS
• GAY PASS
• GOOD LUCK PASSG THIS 6 QUTN TT IF YOU AREN'T GAY
• I'M NOT GAY SEAT

FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS

The Florida Senate passed the ntroversial so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill on Tuday, sendg the Republin-backed legislatn banng LGBTQ stctn primary schools to Gov.

The proposed law, often referred to by crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, bans public school districts om teachg about sexual orientatn or genr inty krgarten through the third gra, or “ a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts”—language that crics say uld extend the ban to higher gra levels. ” Read more: Kid of the Year Falist Kai Shappley, 11, Tak on Lawmakers Her Fight for Trans Rights What impact uld the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill have?

Shevr Jon, Florida’s first openly gay Florida state senator, who told the legislative body: “To those who thk you n legislate gay people away, I’m sorry. The most famo is Florida’s HB 1557/SB 1834, llectively known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

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” Consirg the ongog natnwi nservative mpaign agast nocuo books like Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir, Genr Queer, ’s safe to say that this bill would effectively ban any discsn of LGBTQ+ sexualy public “parental rights” bills, such as South Carola’s H455, would also force schools to velop procr to rm parents about school clubs, which likely targets LGBTQ+ clubs such as Gay Straight Allianc. ” Arizona’s is a ltle ls explicly homophobic/transphobic, only specifyg that would ban “sexually explic material, ” but is more broad-rangg, applyg not jt to public school librari but public schools as a ’s also worth notg that the proposed bills go hand hand wh the nservative effort to ban “cril race theory” om classrooms; Freedom for All Amerins is trackg those bills right alongsi the anti-trans tn least 20 stat have troduced such bills th far 2022.

” That be emently clear upon lookg at the text of a bill like Iowa’s HF 170, filed last month, which expands the fn of “scerely held relig beliefs and moral nvictns” to clu opposn to gay marriage, that “male” and “female” refer to “distct and immutable blogil sex, ” and that “unborn children'' should have rights.

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GOOD LUCK PASSG THIS 6 QUTN TT IF YOU AREN'T GAY

Can you be homosexual whout beg gay? Bryan Lowr (over at Slate), who dissects and theoriz on the advent of gay culture, s fluence on (cismale) inty, and the attempts to fe, and embrace, a world where homosexualy is creasgly accepted. The number of "straight dus" on Grdr now probably outnumber the on who self-intify as by Avenger at 11:41 AM on May 12, 2015 [1 favore] I've always wonred about 20th-century performers and characters whose mannerisms read as mp or gay to morn dienc, like Jack Benny, or Dr.

I'M NOT GAY SEAT

If not, did gay culture spawn mp, or was mp subsumed to gay culture?