Gay Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts New York Cy of June 28, 1969.
Contents:
- IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
- GAY PRI
- GAY PARTI & EVENTS
- FLORIDA PASS ANTI-DRAG BAN SO EXTREME IT COULD BAN ALL PRI PARASTHE BILL IS SO VAGUELY WORD THAT PRI ANIZERS ARE ALREADY WORRIED ABOUT CELEBRATNS THIS YEAR.SEAN DRAK/GETTY IMAGCELEBRATED DRAG PERSONALY AND PALACE AMBASSADOR TIFFANY FANTASIA -HOSTS THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MIAMI BEACH PRI PARA, WEARG A CTOM DRS THAT CLAR “DRAG IS NOT A CRIME,” ON APRIL 16.FLORIDA PASSED A BILL WEDNDAY THAT ULD STOP ALL PRI PARAS AND FTIVALS THE STATE.THE MEASURE PASSED THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV BY A VOTE OF 82–32 AND IS NOW HEAD TO THE SK OF GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS, WHO IS EXPECTED TO SIGN TO LAW. THE BILL PASSED THE SENATE LAST WEEK BY A VOTE OF 28–12.IF BE LAW, THE MEASURE WOULD PROHIB ERNMENT ENTI AND EMPLOYE OM ISSUG PERMS TO ANIZATNS THAT MAY HOLD “ADULT LIVE PERFORMANC” THE PRENCE OF MORS. ANYONE THAT DO N BE CHARGED WH A MISMEANOR.THE MEASURE WOULD ALSO BAN BS OM ALLOWG MORS TO ATTEND AN “ADULT LIVE PERFORMANCE,” WHICH IS FED AS A SHOW PERFORMED ONT OF A LIVE DIENCE THAT “PICTS OR SIMULAT NUDY, SEXUAL NDUCT, SEXUAL EXCEMENT, OR SPECIFIC SEXUAL ACTIVI … LEWD NDUCT, OR THE LEWD EXPOSURE OF PROSTHETIC OR IMATN GENALS OR BREASTS.” ANY BS THAT BREAKS THIS LAW WILL FACE A FE OF UP TO $10,000 AND ULD LOSE S LICENSE.“THIS BILL IS A BLATANT ATTACK ON EE EXPRSN, PARENTAL RIGHTS, AND CHOICE,” SAID DEMOCRATIC REPRENTATIVE LAVON BRACY DAVIS. “WHAT ARE YOU AAID OF? WHAT IS ABOUT DRAG QUEENS THAT TERRIFY YOU? PRAY TELL, WHY ARE WE CENSORG ARTISTIC EXPRSN?”“I KNOW THIS CHAMBER HAS SHOWN QUE THE NCERN FOR IMPERSONATN. WELL RIGHT NOW, WE ARE IMPERSONATG MOCRACY.”DEMOCRAT FENTRICE DRISKELL POTED OUT THAT FLORIDA ALREADY HAS LAWS PLACE TO PROTECT CHILDREN OM BEG EXPOSED TO OBSCENE NTENT, THE MA ARGUMENT OM THE BILL’S BACKERS. “EVEN THOUGH THE PLA TEXT OF THE BILL MAY NOT SAY ‘DRAG’ ... THERE’S A GREATER NTEXT HAPPENG HERE, AND WE ALL KNOW ,” SHE SAID.HER LLEAGUE DARYL CAMPBELL WARNED THAT REPUBLINS MAY CURRENTLY BE TARGETG THE LGBTQ MUNY. BUT “FOR THOSE WATCHG, THEY WILL E AFTER YOU WHEN ’S THEIR TERT.”IF DESANTIS SIGNS THE BILL TO LAW, WILL GO TO EFFECT IMMEDIATELY, A LTLE MORE THAN A MONTH BEFORE PRI MONTH BEGS JUNE. FTIVALS SUCH AS ST. PETE PRI ST. PETERSBURG, THE STATE’S LARGT PRI CELEBRATN, ULD LOSE THEIR PERMS.THE MEASURE IS SO VAGUELY WORD THAT PRI ANIZERS THE STATE HAVE ALREADY EXPRSED NCERN. “WE DO BELIEVE THAT THIS MIGHT BE THE LAST PRI AS YOU KNOW ,” PATRICK GEVAS, ONE OF THE ANIZERS OF MIAMI BEACH PRI, TOLD NBC 6.CRICS HAVE SLAMMED THE BILL AS BEG OVERLY BROAD, WHICH ULD HAVE UNTEND NSEQUENC. REPUBLINS BACKG HAVE ADMTED THAT THE MEASURE WOULD PREVENT PERFORMANC OF THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW AND THE MIL HAIR.BUT THE MEASURE WILL ALSO HAVE AN TEND NSEQUENCE: “ERASG” LGBTQ PEOPLE OM EXISTENCE. FLORIDA REPUBLIN REPRENTATIVE RANDY FE SAID LAST WEEK THAT IF PASSG THE BILL “MEANS ERASG A MUNY BEE YOU HAVE TO TARGET CHILDREN, THEN, DAMN RIGHT, WE OUGHT TO DO !”THE ACLU SLAMMED THE BILL WHEN FIRST PASSED THE SENATE AS “AN EXTREME ERNMENTAL OVERREACH OF POWER.” “THIS IS NOT MOCRACY. THIS IS NOT EEDOM,” THE GROUP SAID A STATEMENT.FLORIDA IS THE LATT STATE TO ADVANCE A (VAGUELY WORD, EXTREME) MEASURE ATTACKG DRAG PERFORMANC, WHICH HAVE BEE A PARTICULAR TARGET FOR THE RIGHT WG RECENT YEARS. IN MARCH, TENNSEE BEME THE FIRST STATE TO PASS A LAW BANNG DRAG PERFORMANC, BUT THE MEASURE WAS BLOCKED BY A JUDGE BEFORE ULD GO TO EFFECT ON THE GROUNDS THAT WAS OVERLY BROAD AND VLATED EE SPEECH RIGHTS.DESANTIS HAS ALSO SET HIS SIGHTS ON DRAG PERFORMANC, REVOKG THE LIQUOR LICENS FOR MULTIPLE BS THAT HAVE HOSTED DRAG SHOWS—EVEN THOUGH UNRVER AGENTS SENT TO ONE SHOW “DID NOT WNS ANY LEWD ACTS.”SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKREPUBLINS LOSE ANOTHER ANTI-TRANS SMEAR CAMPAIGNMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 19, 2023/6:38 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYTHE LATT WRKLE REPUBLINS’ QUT TO BAN THE ABORTN PILLA NEW LAWSU AGAST THE FDA SEEKS TO PRERVE ACCS TO THE PILL, REGARDLS OF WHAT THE LOWER URTS HAVE SAID.PROBAL RASHID/LIGHTROCKET/GETTY IMAGTHE MAKER OF THE GENERIC VERSN OF THE ABORTN PILL MIFEPRISTONE SUED THE FOOD AND DG ADMISTRATN ON WEDNDAY AN EFFORT TO KEEP THE DG ACCSIBLE NATNWI.A PLITED LEGAL BATTLE OVER MIFEPRISTONE IS PLAYG OUT THE U.S. JUDICIAL SYSTEM. A TEXAS FERAL JUDGE LED TWO WEEKS AGO THAT THE DG, ONE OF THE MEDITNS ED TO DUCE AN ABORTN, HAD BEEN IMPROPERLY APPROVED BY THE FDA AND SHOULD BE YANKED OM THE U.S. MARKET. THE DEPARTMENT OF JTICE APPEALED THE CISN, FIRST TO THE FIFTH CIRCU COURT, WHICH ONLY PARTIALLY STAYED THE LG. THE JTICE DEPARTMENT THEN APPEALED THE SE TO THE SUPREME COURT, WHICH ISSUED A TEMPORARY ADMISTRATIVE STAY.THE FIFTH CIRCU’S LG, IF UPHELD, WILL JUDICIALLY NULLIFY THE ABBREVIATED NEW DG APPLITN, OR ANDA, FOR THE PILLS MA BY GENBPRO, WHICH THE FDA APPROVED 2019. GENBPRO SAYS S PILLS ARE ED ABOUT TWO-THIRDS OF THE 500,000 MEDITN ABORTNS THAT HAPPEN THE UNED STAT EACH YEAR.GENBPRO SUED THE FDA FOR DITG URT FILGS THAT IF THE SUPREME COURT DO NOT TERVENE, THEN THE AGENCY WILL ABI BY THE LOWER LGS AND PULL GENBPRO’S DG OM THE MARKET. THE PANY ARGUED THAT DOG SO WOULD VLATE LAWS ABOUT THE PROCS FOR WHDRAWG A DG’S APPROVAL.“IN ADDN TO THE SEVERE HARM TO GENBPRO’S MERCIAL VIABILY OM SPENSN OF S ANDA, TASTROPHIC HARM ALSO RULTS TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, CLUDG DOCTORS AND PATIENTS, WHO HAVE VELOPED EXTENSIVE RELIANCE TERTS THE APPROVAL AND AVAILABILY OF GENBPRO’S MIFEPRISTONE,” THE PANY SAID THE LAWSU.GENBPRO ALSO SAID THAT HAS REPEATEDLY ASKED THE FDA FOR ASSURANC THAT S APPROVAL STAT WILL BE PROTECTED, BUT THE FDA HAS NOT RPOND. “BEE OF THE FDA CISN AND THE ENFORCEMENT THREAT AND UNCERTATY HAS CREATED, GENBPRO IS SUFFERG IRREPARABLE FANCIAL AND REPUTATNAL HARM, SEVERELY THREATENG S RE BS MOL AND MERCIAL VIABILY,” GENBPRO SAID.THE GENBPRO LAWSU IS AN ATTEMPT TO KEEP MIFEPRISTONE AVAILABLE, REGARDLS OF WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT CIS TO STAY OR UPHOLD THE LOWER URT LGS. THE NATN’S HIGH URT IS EXPECTED TO ISSUE A CISN WEDNDAY.MEDITN ABORTNS MAKE UP MORE THAN HALF OF ALL ABORTNS PERFORMED THE UNED STAT. THE DGS N BE ORRED ONLE AND LIVERED VIA MAIL, MAKG THEM A KEY ROURCE FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE STAT THAT HAVE CRACKED DOWN ON ABORTN ACCS SCE ROE V. WA WAS OVERTURNED LAST SUMMER.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKCONSERVATIV ARE TURNG TO A 150-YEAR-OLD OBSCENY LAW TO OUTLAW ABORTNMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 19, 2023/6:32 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYELISE STEFANIK LIK TO TALK ABOUT CRIME UNTIL IT HAPPENS HER OWN DISTRICTA 20-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED AFTER HER IEND TURNED TO THE WRONG DRIVEWAY. THAT WAS REPUBLIN REPRENTATIVE ELISE STEFANIK’S DISTRICT.ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAGON SATURDAY NIGHT, A GROUP OF IENDS HAD DRIVEN UP THE WRONG DRIVEWAY AS THEY WERE SEARCHG FOR ANOTHER IEND’S HOE. AND AS THEY TURNED THEIR VEHICL AROUND, THE OWNER OF THE HOME SHOT AT THEM.THE 65-YEAR-OLD HOMEOWNER, KEV MONAHAN, FIRED TWO SHOTS AND KILLED 20-YEAR-OLD KAYL GILLIS, THORI SAID—FOR THE SIMPLE OFFENSE OF BEG THE PASSENGER SEAT OF A VEHICLE THAT PULLED TO A WRONG DRIVEWAY BEFORE PROMPTLY TURNG AROUND. THE VLENT SHOOTG OCCURRED UPSTATE NEW YORK, THE DISTRICT REPRENTED BY REPUBLIN REPRENTATIVE ELISE STEFANIK.ON TUDAY, STEFANIK TWEETED A NOT-APP-STYLE STATEMENT THAT HER “HEART BREAKS FOR THE TRAGEDY OF THE LOSS OF KAYL GILLIS’ YOUNG LIFE” AND THAT SHE FULLY SUPPORTS EFFORTS “TO ENSURE JTICE IS SERVED.” BUT WH THE HOUR, STEFANIK WENT BACK TO HER REGULARLY SCHLED PROGRAMMG OF WHIPPG UP OUTRAGE ABOUT CRIME NEW YORK CY.STEFANIK HAS SPENT MUCH OF HER REER FEARMONGERG ABOUT CRIME, ALL THE MORE SO AMID THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S DICTMENT OF TWICE-IMPEACHED FORMER PRINT DONALD TMP. SHE, ALONG WH OTHER REPUBLINS, HAS ATTEMPTED TO DISCRED MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY ALV BRAGG BY TRYG TO AME NEW YORK CY AS A BASTN OF CRIME.STEFANIK, NOT EVEN A MEMBER OF THE HOE JUDICIARY COMMTEE, WAS VED TO JO A HEARG MONDAY THAT FALSELY AMED NEW YORK AS AWASH CRIME. THE NEW YORK CY CRIME NARRATIVE IS A POPULAR ONE, BUT AS WNS THE HEARG POTED OUT, NEW YORK CY IS SAFER THAN MANY OF THE PLAC HOE REPUBLINS LEADG THE SMEAR MPAIGN E OM.THE MPAIGN HAS BEEN ALL THE MORE VACUO GIVEN THAT REPUBLINS HAVE PUT FORTH NO ACTUAL SOLUTNS TO CRIME THAT MAY BE TAKG PLACE, OTHER THAN BUILDG MORE JAILS AND THROWG MORE PEOPLE THEM. SELDOM HAVE THEY GENUELY PURSUED A BROAR POLICY VISN THEY PRETEND TO RE ABOUT, WHETHER BE IMPROVG PEOPLE’S MENTAL HEALTH OR BATG SOCIAL ALIENATN. MEANWHILE, STEFANIK AND OTHER REPUBLINS HAVE BLOCKED ANY ATTEMPT TO PREVENT SHOOTGS LIKE THE ONE HER DISTRICT OR KANSAS CY, MISSOURI, WHERE 16-YEAR-OLD RALPH YARL WAS SHOT AFTER ACCINTALLY RGG THE WRONG DOORBELL. AFTER THE NASHVILLE SCHOOL SHOOTG LAST MONTH, STEFANIK LLED THE MOVE FOR GUN NTROL “OVERLY POLIL.” NEVER MD THAT MORE THAN 160 MASS SHOOTGS HAVE TAKEN PLACE JT THIS YEAR AMERI.REPUBLINS HAVE MA EASIER, AGA AND AGA, TO ACCS GUNS A UNTRY RAVAGED BY MASS SHOOTGS. THEY HAVE FOMENTED SOCIAL DISTST, A SOCIETY WHERE HATE AND DIVISIVENS HAVE BEE AS AMERIN AS APPLE PIE.AND STEFANIK’S WEAK-HEARTED CHINERY, SHE EMBODI PRECISELY HOW HOLLOW ALL IS. INSTEAD OF NONTG WHY OUR SOCIETY HAS PRODUCED SUCH ANGER AND WHY THAT ANGER IS ALLOWED TO SO EASILY ACCS WEAPONS OF KILLG, STEFANIK AND REPUBLINS ARE STEAD FLAMG THAT ANGER AND MAKG SURE IS AS ARMED AS POSSIBLE.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKI CARRY A FIREARM EVERY DAY. Y, THE SEND AMENDMENT IS KILLG USMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 19, 2023/5:08 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYFLORIDA EXPANDS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THROUGH HIGH SCHOOLTHE LAW BANS CLASSROOM DISCSN ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY.DAVID DEE DELGADO/GETTY IMAGFLORIDA’S BOARD OF EDUTN VOTED WEDNDAY TO DRAMATILLY EXPAND THE STATE’S FAMO “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL.GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS SIGNED THE ORIGAL LAW, OFFICIALLY NAMED THE PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN LAW, MARCH 2022. THE LAW BANS SCHOOLS OM TEACHG STUNTS KRGARTEN THROUGH THIRD GRA ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY, ARGUG THAT THOSE TOPICS ARE NOT AGE- OR VELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE.THE AMENDMENT APPROVED WEDNDAY EXPANDS THAT BAN. INSTCTN ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY WAS ORIGALLY BANNED OM PRE-KRGARTEN TO THIRD GRA. NOW, “FOR GRAS 4 THROUGH 12, STCTN ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY IS PROHIBED UNLS SUCH STCTN IS EHER EXPRSLY REQUIRED BY STATE AMIC STANDARDS … OR IS PART OF A REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH URSE OR HEALTH LSON,” THE AMENDMENT STAT.TEACHERS WHO PROVI SUCH STCTN ANYWAY RISK LOSG THEIR TEACHG LICENSE. PARENTS N ALSO CI TO REMOVE THEIR STUNT OM ANY HEALTH CLASS.“IT WAS NEVER, EVER, EVER ABOUT ‘PROTECTG CHILDREN,’” WARNED FORMER DEMOCRATIC STATE REPRENTATIVE CARLOS GUILLERMO SMH, AHEAD OF THE VOTE.THE LGBTQ RIGHTS GROUP EQUALY FLORIDA SLAMMED THE MEASURE AFTER WAS PASSED. “THE LT FOR ERNMENT CENSORSHIP IS SATIABLE,” THE GROUP SAID. LET’S PUT PLALY: THIS IS PART OF THE GOVERNOR’S ASSLT ON EEDOM. FREE STAT DO NOT BAN BOOKS. FREE STAT DO NOT CENSOR ENTIRE MUNI OUT OF THE CLASSROOM. FREE STAT DO NOT WAGE WAR ON LGBTQ PEOPLE TO SRE CHEAP POLIL POTS FOR A MAN SPERATE TO BE POTUS.— EQUALY FLORIDA (@EQUALYFL) APRIL 19, 2023 THE PROPOSAL WILL GO TO EFFECT AFTER A PROCRAL NOTICE PERD, WHICH LASTS ABOUT A MONTH, AN EDUTN DEPARTMENT SPOKPERSON TOLD THE AP.FLORIDA IS CRACKG DOWN ON DISURSE AROUND SEXUALY AND GENR INTY, OFTEN WAYS THAT ARE OVERLY BROAD AND EXTREME. A REPUBLIN REPRENTATIVE TRODUCED A BILL FEBARY THAT WOULD BAR ANY KD OF SEX TN PUBLIC SCHOOLS UNTIL SIXTH GRA, AND THEN ALLOW ABSTENCE-ONLY SEX ED THE GRAS AFTER. THE BILL, WHICH PASSED THE HOE AND IS THE SENATE, IS SO VAGUE THAT WOULD ALSO PROHIB YOUNGER STUNTS OM DISCSG THEIR PERDS WH SCHOOL OFFICIALS.DESANTIS IS WILY EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE A 2024 PRINTIAL N, AND HE HAS MA CLEAR HE IS WAGG WAR ON ANYTHG HE EMS “WOKE.” HE’S BEEN A WEIRD LEGAL BATTLE WH DISNEY WORLD FOR A YEAR, SCE THE PANY’S THEN CHAIRMAN NMNED THE “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW. HE HAS PROMISED TO FUND DIVERSY, EQUY, AND CLN PROGRAMS ON LLEGE MP; LIMED WHAT N BE TGHT OR READ SCHOOLS; AND HAD HIS ALLI FORCE OUT THE PRINT OF A LIBERALLY MD LLEGE.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKGREG ABBOTT’S POLICY DEATH RACE WH RON DESANTISMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 19, 2023/4:35 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYTENNSEE LOWERED PERMLS-CARRY AGE ON THE DAY OF THE NASHVILLE SHOOTGYOUNGER TENNSEEANS WILL NOT BE PROSECUTED FOR RRYG A GUN WHOUT A PERM.JON CHERRY/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGAFTER A MASS SHOOTG, ONE MIGHT REASONABLY EXPECT A SOCIETY TO ENACT SOME SORT OF LEGISLATN OR CHANGE TO PREVENT SUCH A THG OM HAPPENG AGA. IMAGE ALMOST THE EXACT OPPOSE: LOOSENG GUN LAWS ON THE SAME DAY AS A MASS SHOOTG. THAT, FACT, IS WHAT HAPPENED TENNSEE.ON MARCH 27, A SCHOOL SHOOTG NASHVILLE LEFT THREE CHILDREN AND THREE ADULTS AD. ALSO ON MARCH 27, A TENNSEE JUDGE APPROVED AN AGREEMENT THAT WOULD ALLOW 18 TO 20-YEAR-OLD TENNSEANS THE RIGHT TO RRY A GUN WHOUT A PERM.THE CISN ME RPONSE TO AN OUT-OF-STATE FIREARMS GROUP THAT WAS SUG TENNSEE, ARGUG IS SOMEHOW UNNSTUTNAL TO PREVENT 18-YEAR-OLDS OM RRYG GUNS SANS PERMS. AND LATE JANUARY, TENNSEE ATTORNEY GENERAL JONATHAN SKRMETTI CID TO SETTLE THE SE, AGREEG THAT HIS OFFICE WOULD NOT PROSECUTE PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AG OF 18 AND 20 WHO RRY GUNS WHOUT PERMS. THE PROPOSAL WAS OFFICIALLY APPROVED ON THE SAME DAY AS THE NASHVILLE SHOOTG.“IT IS THE 16, 17, 18 AND 19-YEAR-OLDS KILLG AND DOG THE SHOOTG, WREAKG HAVOC,” MOTHER AND RETIRED U.S. ARMY MEMBER EBONI ANRSON TOLD ACTN NEWS 5. “AND THE LEARS ARE … JT SAYG … ‘GO AHEAD … LEAVE [GUNS] ON A SILVER PLATTER AND GO KILL YOURSELV. WE’RE AWARE OF THIS.’ I N ONLY HOPE THE YOUNGER GENERATNS ARE AWARE THEY’RE GIVG THE GUNS BEE THEY WANT TO KILL EACH OTHER.”SKRMETTI’S CISN HAD GONE THROUGH WH LTLE AWARENS, EVEN ON THE SI OF ELECTED OFFICIALS; ACTN NEWS 5 REPORTED THAT NUMERO LEARS DID NOT KNOW THE CHANGE UNTIL THEY HAD REACHED OUT TO THEM FOR MENT.THE WEAKENG OF GUN SAFETY PROVISNS TENNSEE SHOULD NOT BE SEEN AS AN ABERRATN. LAST WEEK, TENNSEE REPUBLINS SHUT DOWN A “RED FLAG” LAW THAT ULD HAVE PREVENTED THE SHOOTG THE FIRST PLACE. THEY HAD SHUT DOWN A SIAR BILL TWO YEARS AGO AS WELL. TENNSEE REPUBLIN GOVERNOR BILL LEE MA PERMLS RRY LEGAL 2021, AND HIS FELLOW STATE REPUBLINS HAVE BEEN WORKG TO EXPAND THE PERMLS-RRY PRIVILEGE TO CLU ALL GUNS, CLUDG THE LIK OF AR-15 RIFL AND SHOTGUNS. THE LEGISLATN WOULD ALSO HAVE TENNSEE REGNIZE ANY OUT-OF-STATE PERM AS VALID “AS IF IS A FIREARM RRY PERM ISSUED THIS STATE.”AS OF 2020, TENNSEE WAS AMONG THE TOP-10 ADLIT STAT THE UNTRY OM FIREARMS. AND THE AFTERMATH OF A VASTATG MASS SHOOTG AND YET ANOTHER DATA POT THE OVER 160 AMERIN MASS SHOOTGS OF 2023, TENNSEE REPUBLINS SHOW NO SIGN OF WANTG TO CHANGE THAT STATISTIC.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKI CARRY A FIREARM EVERY DAY. Y, THE SEND AMENDMENT IS KILLG USMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 19, 2023/2:54 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYFOX FAC ANOTHER, MUCH BIGGER DEFAMATN LAWSU THAN DOMN’S
IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
* gay pride extreme *
In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.
Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self, ” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.
He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.
GAY PRI
“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.
“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay, ” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen hop to spire others by publicly g out as gay. Katie Sowers was the first female NFL ach to e out as gay.
GAY PARTI & EVENTS
Gay Pri, also lled LGBT Pri or LGBTQ Pri, byname Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts, which began the early hours of June 28, 1969, after police raid the Stonewall Inn bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood. Gay Pri typilly volv a seri of events and is often pped by a para volvg marchers and lourful floats om the LGBTQ muny and s the Stonewall rts, LGBTQ dividuals had generally not broadst their sexual orientatn or inty, but the event galvanized the gay muny and sparked greater polil activism (see gay rights movement).
In 1970, on the first anniversary of the rts, several hundred monstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which ns past the Stonewall, what many nsir the first Gay Pri march (though other memoratns were also held that year).
FLORIDA PASS ANTI-DRAG BAN SO EXTREME IT COULD BAN ALL PRI PARASTHE BILL IS SO VAGUELY WORD THAT PRI ANIZERS ARE ALREADY WORRIED ABOUT CELEBRATNS THIS YEAR.SEAN DRAK/GETTY IMAGCELEBRATED DRAG PERSONALY AND PALACE AMBASSADOR TIFFANY FANTASIA -HOSTS THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MIAMI BEACH PRI PARA, WEARG A CTOM DRS THAT CLAR “DRAG IS NOT A CRIME,” ON APRIL 16.FLORIDA PASSED A BILL WEDNDAY THAT ULD STOP ALL PRI PARAS AND FTIVALS THE STATE.THE MEASURE PASSED THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV BY A VOTE OF 82–32 AND IS NOW HEAD TO THE SK OF GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS, WHO IS EXPECTED TO SIGN TO LAW. THE BILL PASSED THE SENATE LAST WEEK BY A VOTE OF 28–12.IF BE LAW, THE MEASURE WOULD PROHIB ERNMENT ENTI AND EMPLOYE OM ISSUG PERMS TO ANIZATNS THAT MAY HOLD “ADULT LIVE PERFORMANC” THE PRENCE OF MORS. ANYONE THAT DO N BE CHARGED WH A MISMEANOR.THE MEASURE WOULD ALSO BAN BS OM ALLOWG MORS TO ATTEND AN “ADULT LIVE PERFORMANCE,” WHICH IS FED AS A SHOW PERFORMED ONT OF A LIVE DIENCE THAT “PICTS OR SIMULAT NUDY, SEXUAL NDUCT, SEXUAL EXCEMENT, OR SPECIFIC SEXUAL ACTIVI … LEWD NDUCT, OR THE LEWD EXPOSURE OF PROSTHETIC OR IMATN GENALS OR BREASTS.” ANY BS THAT BREAKS THIS LAW WILL FACE A FE OF UP TO $10,000 AND ULD LOSE S LICENSE.“THIS BILL IS A BLATANT ATTACK ON EE EXPRSN, PARENTAL RIGHTS, AND CHOICE,” SAID DEMOCRATIC REPRENTATIVE LAVON BRACY DAVIS. “WHAT ARE YOU AAID OF? WHAT IS ABOUT DRAG QUEENS THAT TERRIFY YOU? PRAY TELL, WHY ARE WE CENSORG ARTISTIC EXPRSN?”“I KNOW THIS CHAMBER HAS SHOWN QUE THE NCERN FOR IMPERSONATN. WELL RIGHT NOW, WE ARE IMPERSONATG MOCRACY.”DEMOCRAT FENTRICE DRISKELL POTED OUT THAT FLORIDA ALREADY HAS LAWS PLACE TO PROTECT CHILDREN OM BEG EXPOSED TO OBSCENE NTENT, THE MA ARGUMENT OM THE BILL’S BACKERS. “EVEN THOUGH THE PLA TEXT OF THE BILL MAY NOT SAY ‘DRAG’ ... THERE’S A GREATER NTEXT HAPPENG HERE, AND WE ALL KNOW ,” SHE SAID.HER LLEAGUE DARYL CAMPBELL WARNED THAT REPUBLINS MAY CURRENTLY BE TARGETG THE LGBTQ MUNY. BUT “FOR THOSE WATCHG, THEY WILL E AFTER YOU WHEN ’S THEIR TERT.”IF DESANTIS SIGNS THE BILL TO LAW, WILL GO TO EFFECT IMMEDIATELY, A LTLE MORE THAN A MONTH BEFORE PRI MONTH BEGS JUNE. FTIVALS SUCH AS ST. PETE PRI ST. PETERSBURG, THE STATE’S LARGT PRI CELEBRATN, ULD LOSE THEIR PERMS.THE MEASURE IS SO VAGUELY WORD THAT PRI ANIZERS THE STATE HAVE ALREADY EXPRSED NCERN. “WE DO BELIEVE THAT THIS MIGHT BE THE LAST PRI AS YOU KNOW ,” PATRICK GEVAS, ONE OF THE ANIZERS OF MIAMI BEACH PRI, TOLD NBC 6.CRICS HAVE SLAMMED THE BILL AS BEG OVERLY BROAD, WHICH ULD HAVE UNTEND NSEQUENC. REPUBLINS BACKG HAVE ADMTED THAT THE MEASURE WOULD PREVENT PERFORMANC OF THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW AND THE MIL HAIR.BUT THE MEASURE WILL ALSO HAVE AN TEND NSEQUENCE: “ERASG” LGBTQ PEOPLE OM EXISTENCE. FLORIDA REPUBLIN REPRENTATIVE RANDY FE SAID LAST WEEK THAT IF PASSG THE BILL “MEANS ERASG A MUNY BEE YOU HAVE TO TARGET CHILDREN, THEN, DAMN RIGHT, WE OUGHT TO DO !”THE ACLU SLAMMED THE BILL WHEN FIRST PASSED THE SENATE AS “AN EXTREME ERNMENTAL OVERREACH OF POWER.” “THIS IS NOT MOCRACY. THIS IS NOT EEDOM,” THE GROUP SAID A STATEMENT.FLORIDA IS THE LATT STATE TO ADVANCE A (VAGUELY WORD, EXTREME) MEASURE ATTACKG DRAG PERFORMANC, WHICH HAVE BEE A PARTICULAR TARGET FOR THE RIGHT WG RECENT YEARS. IN MARCH, TENNSEE BEME THE FIRST STATE TO PASS A LAW BANNG DRAG PERFORMANC, BUT THE MEASURE WAS BLOCKED BY A JUDGE BEFORE ULD GO TO EFFECT ON THE GROUNDS THAT WAS OVERLY BROAD AND VLATED EE SPEECH RIGHTS.DESANTIS HAS ALSO SET HIS SIGHTS ON DRAG PERFORMANC, REVOKG THE LIQUOR LICENS FOR MULTIPLE BS THAT HAVE HOSTED DRAG SHOWS—EVEN THOUGH UNRVER AGENTS SENT TO ONE SHOW “DID NOT WNS ANY LEWD ACTS.”SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKREPUBLINS LOSE ANOTHER ANTI-TRANS SMEAR CAMPAIGNMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 19, 2023/6:38 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYTHE LATT WRKLE REPUBLINS’ QUT TO BAN THE ABORTN PILLA NEW LAWSU AGAST THE FDA SEEKS TO PRERVE ACCS TO THE PILL, REGARDLS OF WHAT THE LOWER URTS HAVE SAID.PROBAL RASHID/LIGHTROCKET/GETTY IMAGTHE MAKER OF THE GENERIC VERSN OF THE ABORTN PILL MIFEPRISTONE SUED THE FOOD AND DG ADMISTRATN ON WEDNDAY AN EFFORT TO KEEP THE DG ACCSIBLE NATNWI.A PLITED LEGAL BATTLE OVER MIFEPRISTONE IS PLAYG OUT THE U.S. JUDICIAL SYSTEM. A TEXAS FERAL JUDGE LED TWO WEEKS AGO THAT THE DG, ONE OF THE MEDITNS ED TO DUCE AN ABORTN, HAD BEEN IMPROPERLY APPROVED BY THE FDA AND SHOULD BE YANKED OM THE U.S. MARKET. THE DEPARTMENT OF JTICE APPEALED THE CISN, FIRST TO THE FIFTH CIRCU COURT, WHICH ONLY PARTIALLY STAYED THE LG. THE JTICE DEPARTMENT THEN APPEALED THE SE TO THE SUPREME COURT, WHICH ISSUED A TEMPORARY ADMISTRATIVE STAY.THE FIFTH CIRCU’S LG, IF UPHELD, WILL JUDICIALLY NULLIFY THE ABBREVIATED NEW DG APPLITN, OR ANDA, FOR THE PILLS MA BY GENBPRO, WHICH THE FDA APPROVED 2019. GENBPRO SAYS S PILLS ARE ED ABOUT TWO-THIRDS OF THE 500,000 MEDITN ABORTNS THAT HAPPEN THE UNED STAT EACH YEAR.GENBPRO SUED THE FDA FOR DITG URT FILGS THAT IF THE SUPREME COURT DO NOT TERVENE, THEN THE AGENCY WILL ABI BY THE LOWER LGS AND PULL GENBPRO’S DG OM THE MARKET. THE PANY ARGUED THAT DOG SO WOULD VLATE LAWS ABOUT THE PROCS FOR WHDRAWG A DG’S APPROVAL.“IN ADDN TO THE SEVERE HARM TO GENBPRO’S MERCIAL VIABILY OM SPENSN OF S ANDA, TASTROPHIC HARM ALSO RULTS TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, CLUDG DOCTORS AND PATIENTS, WHO HAVE VELOPED EXTENSIVE RELIANCE TERTS THE APPROVAL AND AVAILABILY OF GENBPRO’S MIFEPRISTONE,” THE PANY SAID THE LAWSU.GENBPRO ALSO SAID THAT HAS REPEATEDLY ASKED THE FDA FOR ASSURANC THAT S APPROVAL STAT WILL BE PROTECTED, BUT THE FDA HAS NOT RPOND. “BEE OF THE FDA CISN AND THE ENFORCEMENT THREAT AND UNCERTATY HAS CREATED, GENBPRO IS SUFFERG IRREPARABLE FANCIAL AND REPUTATNAL HARM, SEVERELY THREATENG S RE BS MOL AND MERCIAL VIABILY,” GENBPRO SAID.THE GENBPRO LAWSU IS AN ATTEMPT TO KEEP MIFEPRISTONE AVAILABLE, REGARDLS OF WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT CIS TO STAY OR UPHOLD THE LOWER URT LGS. THE NATN’S HIGH URT IS EXPECTED TO ISSUE A CISN WEDNDAY.MEDITN ABORTNS MAKE UP MORE THAN HALF OF ALL ABORTNS PERFORMED THE UNED STAT. THE DGS N BE ORRED ONLE AND LIVERED VIA MAIL, MAKG THEM A KEY ROURCE FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE STAT THAT HAVE CRACKED DOWN ON ABORTN ACCS SCE ROE V. WA WAS OVERTURNED LAST SUMMER.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKCONSERVATIV ARE TURNG TO A 150-YEAR-OLD OBSCENY LAW TO OUTLAW ABORTNMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 19, 2023/6:32 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYELISE STEFANIK LIK TO TALK ABOUT CRIME UNTIL IT HAPPENS HER OWN DISTRICTA 20-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED AFTER HER IEND TURNED TO THE WRONG DRIVEWAY. THAT WAS REPUBLIN REPRENTATIVE ELISE STEFANIK’S DISTRICT.ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAGON SATURDAY NIGHT, A GROUP OF IENDS HAD DRIVEN UP THE WRONG DRIVEWAY AS THEY WERE SEARCHG FOR ANOTHER IEND’S HOE. AND AS THEY TURNED THEIR VEHICL AROUND, THE OWNER OF THE HOME SHOT AT THEM.THE 65-YEAR-OLD HOMEOWNER, KEV MONAHAN, FIRED TWO SHOTS AND KILLED 20-YEAR-OLD KAYL GILLIS, THORI SAID—FOR THE SIMPLE OFFENSE OF BEG THE PASSENGER SEAT OF A VEHICLE THAT PULLED TO A WRONG DRIVEWAY BEFORE PROMPTLY TURNG AROUND. THE VLENT SHOOTG OCCURRED UPSTATE NEW YORK, THE DISTRICT REPRENTED BY REPUBLIN REPRENTATIVE ELISE STEFANIK.ON TUDAY, STEFANIK TWEETED A NOT-APP-STYLE STATEMENT THAT HER “HEART BREAKS FOR THE TRAGEDY OF THE LOSS OF KAYL GILLIS’ YOUNG LIFE” AND THAT SHE FULLY SUPPORTS EFFORTS “TO ENSURE JTICE IS SERVED.” BUT WH THE HOUR, STEFANIK WENT BACK TO HER REGULARLY SCHLED PROGRAMMG OF WHIPPG UP OUTRAGE ABOUT CRIME NEW YORK CY.STEFANIK HAS SPENT MUCH OF HER REER FEARMONGERG ABOUT CRIME, ALL THE MORE SO AMID THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S DICTMENT OF TWICE-IMPEACHED FORMER PRINT DONALD TMP. SHE, ALONG WH OTHER REPUBLINS, HAS ATTEMPTED TO DISCRED MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY ALV BRAGG BY TRYG TO AME NEW YORK CY AS A BASTN OF CRIME.STEFANIK, NOT EVEN A MEMBER OF THE HOE JUDICIARY COMMTEE, WAS VED TO JO A HEARG MONDAY THAT FALSELY AMED NEW YORK AS AWASH CRIME. THE NEW YORK CY CRIME NARRATIVE IS A POPULAR ONE, BUT AS WNS THE HEARG POTED OUT, NEW YORK CY IS SAFER THAN MANY OF THE PLAC HOE REPUBLINS LEADG THE SMEAR MPAIGN E OM.THE MPAIGN HAS BEEN ALL THE MORE VACUO GIVEN THAT REPUBLINS HAVE PUT FORTH NO ACTUAL SOLUTNS TO CRIME THAT MAY BE TAKG PLACE, OTHER THAN BUILDG MORE JAILS AND THROWG MORE PEOPLE THEM. SELDOM HAVE THEY GENUELY PURSUED A BROAR POLICY VISN THEY PRETEND TO RE ABOUT, WHETHER BE IMPROVG PEOPLE’S MENTAL HEALTH OR BATG SOCIAL ALIENATN. MEANWHILE, STEFANIK AND OTHER REPUBLINS HAVE BLOCKED ANY ATTEMPT TO PREVENT SHOOTGS LIKE THE ONE HER DISTRICT OR KANSAS CY, MISSOURI, WHERE 16-YEAR-OLD RALPH YARL WAS SHOT AFTER ACCINTALLY RGG THE WRONG DOORBELL. AFTER THE NASHVILLE SCHOOL SHOOTG LAST MONTH, STEFANIK LLED THE MOVE FOR GUN NTROL “OVERLY POLIL.” NEVER MD THAT MORE THAN 160 MASS SHOOTGS HAVE TAKEN PLACE JT THIS YEAR AMERI.REPUBLINS HAVE MA EASIER, AGA AND AGA, TO ACCS GUNS A UNTRY RAVAGED BY MASS SHOOTGS. THEY HAVE FOMENTED SOCIAL DISTST, A SOCIETY WHERE HATE AND DIVISIVENS HAVE BEE AS AMERIN AS APPLE PIE.AND STEFANIK’S WEAK-HEARTED CHINERY, SHE EMBODI PRECISELY HOW HOLLOW ALL IS. INSTEAD OF NONTG WHY OUR SOCIETY HAS PRODUCED SUCH ANGER AND WHY THAT ANGER IS ALLOWED TO SO EASILY ACCS WEAPONS OF KILLG, STEFANIK AND REPUBLINS ARE STEAD FLAMG THAT ANGER AND MAKG SURE IS AS ARMED AS POSSIBLE.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKI CARRY A FIREARM EVERY DAY. Y, THE SEND AMENDMENT IS KILLG USMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 19, 2023/5:08 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYFLORIDA EXPANDS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THROUGH HIGH SCHOOLTHE LAW BANS CLASSROOM DISCSN ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY.DAVID DEE DELGADO/GETTY IMAGFLORIDA’S BOARD OF EDUTN VOTED WEDNDAY TO DRAMATILLY EXPAND THE STATE’S FAMO “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL.GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS SIGNED THE ORIGAL LAW, OFFICIALLY NAMED THE PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN LAW, MARCH 2022. THE LAW BANS SCHOOLS OM TEACHG STUNTS KRGARTEN THROUGH THIRD GRA ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY, ARGUG THAT THOSE TOPICS ARE NOT AGE- OR VELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE.THE AMENDMENT APPROVED WEDNDAY EXPANDS THAT BAN. INSTCTN ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY WAS ORIGALLY BANNED OM PRE-KRGARTEN TO THIRD GRA. NOW, “FOR GRAS 4 THROUGH 12, STCTN ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY IS PROHIBED UNLS SUCH STCTN IS EHER EXPRSLY REQUIRED BY STATE AMIC STANDARDS … OR IS PART OF A REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH URSE OR HEALTH LSON,” THE AMENDMENT STAT.TEACHERS WHO PROVI SUCH STCTN ANYWAY RISK LOSG THEIR TEACHG LICENSE. PARENTS N ALSO CI TO REMOVE THEIR STUNT OM ANY HEALTH CLASS.“IT WAS NEVER, EVER, EVER ABOUT ‘PROTECTG CHILDREN,’” WARNED FORMER DEMOCRATIC STATE REPRENTATIVE CARLOS GUILLERMO SMH, AHEAD OF THE VOTE.THE LGBTQ RIGHTS GROUP EQUALY FLORIDA SLAMMED THE MEASURE AFTER WAS PASSED. “THE LT FOR ERNMENT CENSORSHIP IS SATIABLE,” THE GROUP SAID. LET’S PUT PLALY: THIS IS PART OF THE GOVERNOR’S ASSLT ON EEDOM. FREE STAT DO NOT BAN BOOKS. FREE STAT DO NOT CENSOR ENTIRE MUNI OUT OF THE CLASSROOM. FREE STAT DO NOT WAGE WAR ON LGBTQ PEOPLE TO SRE CHEAP POLIL POTS FOR A MAN SPERATE TO BE POTUS.— EQUALY FLORIDA (@EQUALYFL) APRIL 19, 2023 THE PROPOSAL WILL GO TO EFFECT AFTER A PROCRAL NOTICE PERD, WHICH LASTS ABOUT A MONTH, AN EDUTN DEPARTMENT SPOKPERSON TOLD THE AP.FLORIDA IS CRACKG DOWN ON DISURSE AROUND SEXUALY AND GENR INTY, OFTEN WAYS THAT ARE OVERLY BROAD AND EXTREME. A REPUBLIN REPRENTATIVE TRODUCED A BILL FEBARY THAT WOULD BAR ANY KD OF SEX TN PUBLIC SCHOOLS UNTIL SIXTH GRA, AND THEN ALLOW ABSTENCE-ONLY SEX ED THE GRAS AFTER. THE BILL, WHICH PASSED THE HOE AND IS THE SENATE, IS SO VAGUE THAT WOULD ALSO PROHIB YOUNGER STUNTS OM DISCSG THEIR PERDS WH SCHOOL OFFICIALS.DESANTIS IS WILY EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE A 2024 PRINTIAL N, AND HE HAS MA CLEAR HE IS WAGG WAR ON ANYTHG HE EMS “WOKE.” HE’S BEEN A WEIRD LEGAL BATTLE WH DISNEY WORLD FOR A YEAR, SCE THE PANY’S THEN CHAIRMAN NMNED THE “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW. HE HAS PROMISED TO FUND DIVERSY, EQUY, AND CLN PROGRAMS ON LLEGE MP; LIMED WHAT N BE TGHT OR READ SCHOOLS; AND HAD HIS ALLI FORCE OUT THE PRINT OF A LIBERALLY MD LLEGE.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKGREG ABBOTT’S POLICY DEATH RACE WH RON DESANTISMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 19, 2023/4:35 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYTENNSEE LOWERED PERMLS-CARRY AGE ON THE DAY OF THE NASHVILLE SHOOTGYOUNGER TENNSEEANS WILL NOT BE PROSECUTED FOR RRYG A GUN WHOUT A PERM.JON CHERRY/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGAFTER A MASS SHOOTG, ONE MIGHT REASONABLY EXPECT A SOCIETY TO ENACT SOME SORT OF LEGISLATN OR CHANGE TO PREVENT SUCH A THG OM HAPPENG AGA. IMAGE ALMOST THE EXACT OPPOSE: LOOSENG GUN LAWS ON THE SAME DAY AS A MASS SHOOTG. THAT, FACT, IS WHAT HAPPENED TENNSEE.ON MARCH 27, A SCHOOL SHOOTG NASHVILLE LEFT THREE CHILDREN AND THREE ADULTS AD. ALSO ON MARCH 27, A TENNSEE JUDGE APPROVED AN AGREEMENT THAT WOULD ALLOW 18 TO 20-YEAR-OLD TENNSEANS THE RIGHT TO RRY A GUN WHOUT A PERM.THE CISN ME RPONSE TO AN OUT-OF-STATE FIREARMS GROUP THAT WAS SUG TENNSEE, ARGUG IS SOMEHOW UNNSTUTNAL TO PREVENT 18-YEAR-OLDS OM RRYG GUNS SANS PERMS. AND LATE JANUARY, TENNSEE ATTORNEY GENERAL JONATHAN SKRMETTI CID TO SETTLE THE SE, AGREEG THAT HIS OFFICE WOULD NOT PROSECUTE PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AG OF 18 AND 20 WHO RRY GUNS WHOUT PERMS. THE PROPOSAL WAS OFFICIALLY APPROVED ON THE SAME DAY AS THE NASHVILLE SHOOTG.“IT IS THE 16, 17, 18 AND 19-YEAR-OLDS KILLG AND DOG THE SHOOTG, WREAKG HAVOC,” MOTHER AND RETIRED U.S. ARMY MEMBER EBONI ANRSON TOLD ACTN NEWS 5. “AND THE LEARS ARE … JT SAYG … ‘GO AHEAD … LEAVE [GUNS] ON A SILVER PLATTER AND GO KILL YOURSELV. WE’RE AWARE OF THIS.’ I N ONLY HOPE THE YOUNGER GENERATNS ARE AWARE THEY’RE GIVG THE GUNS BEE THEY WANT TO KILL EACH OTHER.”SKRMETTI’S CISN HAD GONE THROUGH WH LTLE AWARENS, EVEN ON THE SI OF ELECTED OFFICIALS; ACTN NEWS 5 REPORTED THAT NUMERO LEARS DID NOT KNOW THE CHANGE UNTIL THEY HAD REACHED OUT TO THEM FOR MENT.THE WEAKENG OF GUN SAFETY PROVISNS TENNSEE SHOULD NOT BE SEEN AS AN ABERRATN. LAST WEEK, TENNSEE REPUBLINS SHUT DOWN A “RED FLAG” LAW THAT ULD HAVE PREVENTED THE SHOOTG THE FIRST PLACE. THEY HAD SHUT DOWN A SIAR BILL TWO YEARS AGO AS WELL. TENNSEE REPUBLIN GOVERNOR BILL LEE MA PERMLS RRY LEGAL 2021, AND HIS FELLOW STATE REPUBLINS HAVE BEEN WORKG TO EXPAND THE PERMLS-RRY PRIVILEGE TO CLU ALL GUNS, CLUDG THE LIK OF AR-15 RIFL AND SHOTGUNS. THE LEGISLATN WOULD ALSO HAVE TENNSEE REGNIZE ANY OUT-OF-STATE PERM AS VALID “AS IF IS A FIREARM RRY PERM ISSUED THIS STATE.”AS OF 2020, TENNSEE WAS AMONG THE TOP-10 ADLIT STAT THE UNTRY OM FIREARMS. AND THE AFTERMATH OF A VASTATG MASS SHOOTG AND YET ANOTHER DATA POT THE OVER 160 AMERIN MASS SHOOTGS OF 2023, TENNSEE REPUBLINS SHOW NO SIGN OF WANTG TO CHANGE THAT STATISTIC.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKI CARRY A FIREARM EVERY DAY. Y, THE SEND AMENDMENT IS KILLG USMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 19, 2023/2:54 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYFOX FAC ANOTHER, MUCH BIGGER DEFAMATN LAWSU THAN DOMN’S
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