June is Pri Month, a celebratn that regniz the impact of the LGBTQ+ muny. The month also foc on the important and ongog work to achieve equal jtice and opportuny for Amerins who intify as LGBTQ+, an clive acronym that reprents the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and/or qutng muny.
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‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS
In St. Petersburg, Florida, where the “Don’t Say Gay” bill go to effect this week, hundreds of thoands gathered to celebrate 20 years of Pri on Saturday. * st petersburg gay pride 2022 *
”Both the state ernment and the Supreme Court were already chippg away at the rights of gay, bisexual and transgenr Floridians, Pri atten para Saturday me on the heels of the historic reversal of Roe v. Explore all your optnsAs right-wg punds and policians amped up their rhetoric — even llg for executns of LGBTQ people and parg them to pedophil — civil rights anizatns beme ncerned that homophobic speech had embolned extremist groups, who threatened Pri Saturday morng, St. Pete Pri goers awoke to news of a shootg at a gay bar Norway that lead Pri anizers Oslo to ncel their ftivi for the Petersburg Police Chief Anthony Holloway promised an “all hands on ck” approach to secury at Pri events.
GAY BARS ST. PETERSBURG
It was St. Petersburg’s first LGBTQ Pri march sce the onslght of the Covid-19 panmic, and jt three months after Florida’s ernor signed what crics ll the “Don’t Say Gay” law. * st petersburg gay pride 2022 *
Some snapped photos ont of the preachers, cludg one para-goer wearg fishs and a vt that read, “Say Gay. A retired teacher, he worried what legislatn like Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn Bill — nicknamed by opponents as the “Don’t Say Gay” Bill — uld have on on children who, like him, knew they were part of the LGBTQ muny om a young age. He says no — he has to work today — but the last para, he was on a float for a well-known lol gay rort that no longer exists.
Texas, which found stat’ sodomy laws were unnstutnal crimalizg gay sex. That momento cisn was weled by about 10, 000 people gathered among the bungalows and storeonts of the gayborhood. And when the state surgeon general misleadgly attacks trans health re, when the ernor m about drag shows beg child endangerment as his spokwoman fuels “groomer” rhetoric to make 1950s-era homophobic lawmakers proud, and when legislators flict the famo “Don’t Say Gay” (or trans) law on schools, the threat is now.
* st petersburg gay pride 2022 *
But I’m also sred for people like myself, who are gay or whatever may be, bee of what’s gog on.