In California schools, teachers do and mt say the word "gay" as well as lbian and transgenr lsons about nonnformg exprsns of genr.
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KNOW YOUR ENTERTAERS: SANDRA GAY
Edward Heath was told poet should be led out over ‘utterly revoltg’ vers about gay sex and Aun’s cisn to be an Amerin cizen * education gay *
“They’re jt ntug the fear mongerg om ssn, ” says Jon Harris Mrer, public policy director for Equaly Florida, scribg 2023 legislative chang that fall squarely to the more-of-the-same-homophobic-nonsense tegory.
DeSantis support of anti-gay vio lled bad strategy, worse msage. A provisn that would extend the famo “Don’t Say Gay” provisns to middle schools.
6 reasons why “don’t say gay” bills are wrong. * education gay *
Florida needs more public officials to fd the urage to stand up to Florida’s self-signated emperor and say “Governor, for someone so foced on ‘Don’t Say Gay, ’ you sure seem to brg up a lot. Edward Heath was told poet should be led out over ‘utterly revoltg’ vers about gay sex and Aun’s cisn to be an Amerin cizen. He was one of the most acplished poets of the 20th century, but WH Aun was emed unsuable for the role of poet lreate after wrg a “filthy” pornographic poem that would “brg disgrace” on the Heath, the Conservative prime mister, was told 1972 that Aun - prevly scribed by officials as “probably the bt poet” alive - had wrten “utterly revoltg” vers about gay sex, meang that together wh his cisn to bee an Amerin cizen he should be led out.
Old fears about gay people are beg bed wh newer ncerns—and newly veloped polil tools.
This is jt htg you the face, ” said Chris Sanrs, the executive director of the Tennsee Equaly Project, a gay-rights group, potg to a bill that statethat would prohib materials that “promote, normalize, support, or addrs” LGBTQ issu. Those that did, though, varly say they’re troducg them to guard parents’ rights or prevent doctratn by teachers, though they were often unclear about what specific impact they expect the laws to John Kavanagh, Arizona, was one of the few lawmakers who agreed to speak on the rerd about the bill he sponsored, which would require parents to give approval for their children to jo gay-straight allianc at schools or other such clubs.
The Florida Don't Say Gay law shows the opposg velopments ncerng LGBTQ tn U.S. schools. While some stat have been tablishg legal foundatns for LGBTQ curriculums recently, Florida is gog the oppose directn and more stat are expected to follow s example. * education gay *
“Some of this is polil grandstandg and vote-panrg, but there’s also an thentic anxiety around parents and nonparents alike that Ameri’s children are beg Pied-Pipered by the vague and distant threats, they’re vadg the muny through the schools, ” said Adam Laats, a profsor of tn and history at the State Universy of New York, ia that gay teachers are recg stunts who need to be protected is a particularly vic theme that rells the latter half of the 20th century, Laats said, which at that time rulted thefirg of sr of teachers—a procs ually spearhead by state lawmakers, but was also supported by teachers’ unns, ci, and others. Supreme Court le that employe nnot be fired for beg gay. “And I thk there is a very strong iologil current that really do believe the heart and soul of Ameri is at stake and beg threatened by trans people, by gays and lbians, by undocumented people, that is lookg to stutnalize the versn of Ameri they want to see.
Born and raised Brooklyn, New York, Sandra Gay said dancg and theater has always been a huge part of her life, even as she pursued a gree tn at her parents’ beht of “gettg a real job.” * education gay *
What mak the surge of legislative tert particularly plited is that stat have historilly not provid much guidance on how their schools should addrs LGBTQ the 1980s and 1990s, durg the height of the HIV epimic, a number of stat passed laws proscribg mentn of homosexualy; many, but not all, have sce been rolled back.
Natnal pollg shows most Amerins are fortable wh gay and lbian teachers and about six 10 say they are fortable wh an elementary level transgenr teacher, acrdg to an analysis by the Survey Center on Amerin Life, a project of the Amerin Enterprise Instute, a thk tank. Supreme Court’s 2015 lg tablishg the right of gay people to marry, said Murib. Florida recently (March 28, 2022) passed the famo “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which prohibs stctn about gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (GLBTQ) people until the fourth gra and other stat are followg su.
In California schools, teachers do and mt say the word "gay" as well as lbian and transgenr lsons about nonnformg exprsns of genr. * education gay *
Here are six reasons why “don’t say gay” bills are wrong and why we need LGBTQ-clive tn at all gra levels.
This n also protect them om later engagg dangero behavrs that rult om homophobia cludg dg and alhol abe, skippg school, and self-harm. Bullyg and name-llg are often based harmful anti-gay stereotyp. Some of the most mon sults elementary school are “gay, ” “lbo, ” and “fag.
Florida ernor Ron DeSantis signed the state’s much-discsed Parental Rights Edutn bill—much more equently lled the Don’t Say Gay bill—to law on Monday, makg the state the fifth the natn where tors and staff are explicly prohibed om discsg LGBTQ people and issu as part of curriculums public schools. Other active Don’t Say Gay tn bills exist Texas, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Louisiana. The prev s had, on the ntrary, seen the removal of several Don’t Say Gay statut ncerng public schools.
Three strategi elementary school teachers n e to foster a sense of cln for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer stunts. * education gay *
Acrdg to The Hill, the state’s bill uld be jt the begng of a wave of new Don’t Say Gay legislatn for schools. New wave of Don't Say Gay bills?
Olr Don’t Say Gay laws had generally also rtricted stctn for all age levels, wh their wordg rangg om “homosexualy is not a liftyle acceptable to the general public” (Texas) to puttg LGBTQ sexualy the same tegory as tn about “current state laws related to sexual nduct, cludg forcible rape, statutory rape” (Mississippi), even though gay sex is no longer an offense the state as of 2003. Dpe Don’t Say Gay tn laws currently only affectg five stat, they still touch upon 18% of the U.