Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed the ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill to law spe natnwi protts.
Contents:
- FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS
- SOMEONE CHANGED A FLORIDA TRAFFIC SIGN TO SAY 'KILL ALL GAYS,' PROMPTG A POLICE VTIGATN
- ORLANDO POLICE VTIGATE A HATEFUL ANTI-GAY MSAGE WRTEN ON A TRAFFIC SIGN
- FLORIDA TRAFFIC SIGN HACKED TO DISPLAY 'KILL ALL GAYS'
- FLORIDA ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL TO LAW
- FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL SIGNED TO LAW
- GAY FLORIDA
FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS
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A sign wh a homophobic slur outsi a Florida to repair shop has sparked backlash om the lol muny and social media sign, which appeared to have gone up over Memorial Day weekend outsi Rick’s Repair Shop Tallahassee, said, “Veterans get a day fags and child molters get a month why, ” appearg to refer to Pri Month June. ”Earlier this month, drivers Orlando, Florida, were met wh a vlent and homophobic msage on the road, where a digal traffic sign that appeared to be tampered wh displayed the msage “KILL ALL GAYS.
SOMEONE CHANGED A FLORIDA TRAFFIC SIGN TO SAY 'KILL ALL GAYS,' PROMPTG A POLICE VTIGATN
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.
ORLANDO POLICE VTIGATE A HATEFUL ANTI-GAY MSAGE WRTEN ON A TRAFFIC SIGN
” 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?
FLORIDA TRAFFIC SIGN HACKED TO DISPLAY 'KILL ALL GAYS'
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. Police are lookg for those rponsible for alterg an Orlando traffic sign to say "KILL ALL GAYS.
FLORIDA ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL TO LAW
The cint took place Wednday, Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia. Orlando Police Department has lnched an vtigatn to fd those rponsible for alterg a traffic sign to display a threateng homophobic officers received a ll about the anti-LGBTQ msage Orlando's Medil Cy, near Lake Nona, at around 4 a. In bold orange letters, s msage read: "KILL ALL GAYS.
FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL SIGNED TO LAW
"Wednday was Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, which is observed annually to memorate jtic agast LGBTQ muni around the world. Ron highlighted a number of laws and polici aimed at transgenr Floridians, as well as the so-lled "Don't Say Gay" bill, addn to recent protts outsi Florida venu hostg drag shows.
But Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has sudnly sparked a natnal war of words.In recent weeks, lears of global rporatns, edorial boards of major newspapers and Hollywood actors have all weighed on the proposed legislatn, wh some llg “eply disturbg” and others “nonntroversial.” Kate McKnon ripped to the bill durg a recent “Weekend Update” segment on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” The hosts of the ABC talk show “The View” mulled over the policy for more than seven mut on air last month. Ron DeSantis, who has said he supports the bill but hasn't signed yet, and Disney CEO Bob Chapek.Supporters of HB 1557 say would give parents greater ntrol over their children’s tn, vditg their “parental thory.” Conversely, opponents say would unfairly target the LGBTQ muny — particularly gay and trans stunts — and is “pretendg to solve a problem that don’t exist.”So, which is ?For starters, cricism that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill do not fact say “gay” anywhere s text is te.
The bill, which passed Florida’s Senate last week and the state’s Hoe of Reprentativ Febary, do, however, nta the terms “sexual orientatn” and “genr inty,” each twice.But legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn.”“In the same way that cril race theory isn’t beg tght schools, that hasn’t stopped people like the ernor of Florida om ployg the term ‘cril race theory’ efforts to engage certa kds of polil manvergs,” said Charlton Copeland, a profsor at the Universy of Miami School of Law who wr about sexual orientatn and genr inty. “The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ moniker is a moniker about a certa polil amg of this suatn.”Beyond brandg, a re argument over the bill centers around whether would prohib the “stctn” or “discsn” of sexual orientatn.The bill’s sponsors have emphatilly stated that the bill would not prohib stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 adly attack on the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando. Florida drivers were met wh a vlent and homophobic msage on a road Orlando this msage, wrten all pal letters on a digal traffic sign, said “KILL ALL GAYS.
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Orlando was the se of the 2016 mass shootg at the gay nightclub Pulse, which a gunman killed 49 people.
Carlos Guillermo Smh, who is gay and nng for a seat the Florida Senate, said the msage is a “sign of the hate and divisn that has taken hold Florida” and blamed the cint, part, on the state’s Republin ernor. Last year, he ma natnal headl by signg what crics dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law, and on Wednday he signed four bills rtrictg LGBTQ rights, cludg a measure that bans transn-related re for mors and one tend to rtrict drag performanc. Police Orlando said they have opened an vtigatn after a digal traffic sign was hacked to read “KILL ALL GAYS” earlier this week.