Fightg Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill Is Still Possible — & Important

Contents:

• WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS
• LGBTQ YOUTH FIGHT BACK AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• I DON’T CARE WHAT FLORIDA TELLS US — KEEP “SAYG GAY” AT SCHOOL
• FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL IS CEL AND DANGERO
• FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS
• WHE HOE NMNS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'
• AFTER PROTTS, DISNEY CEO SPEAKS OUT AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• DISNEY VOWS TO HELP REPEAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW, SAYS FLORIDA GOV. DESANTIS SHOULDN'T HAVE SIGNED

WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS

'I am eply gay': Kate McKnon mocks Florida's ntroversial bill. In their qut to bee the party of “parental rights, ” Republins Florida and other stat are attemptg to muzzle discsn of gay and civil rights school.

LGBTQ YOUTH FIGHT BACK AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

Ron DeSantis signed – tled “Parental Rights Edutn” – has been dubbed by crics the “Don’t Say Gay” bill bee seeks to ban discsn of genr and sexualy issu wh younger stunts.

What has been dubbed by crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill was the subject of an tense opposn mpaign.

Earlier this month, DeSantis grew agated at the Florida Strawberry Ftival when a reporter asked him about the phrase – “Don’t Say Gay” – that crics have applied to the bill. "Stori and histori about people like CJ -- a gay, 17-year-old boy -- would not be allowed to be tght classrooms om krgarten to third gra if the legislatn, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill, is implemented, limg classroom curriculum on sexual orientatn and genr inty.

HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

"They won't know who they are, they won't be able to exprs themselv, " CJ said about stunts classrooms where the lsons are Waln, 17, is jog other high school stunts a letter-wrg mpaign agast the "Don't Say Gay" bill. "I really thk this sends a msage to stunts, to staff, to our muny, that there is somethg wrong wh beg gay or that is somethg that is too taboo to be discsed and that we are somethg that should be the shadows, " Fenng said. Joe Hardg, who troduced the bill, told ABC News podst "Start Here" that teachers and stunts n still discs sexual orientatn and genr inty their classrooms, there jt n't be a curriculum or lsons on Fenng and other Florida stunts went to the state pal to nont legislators about the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

I DON’T CARE WHAT FLORIDA TELLS US — KEEP “SAYG GAY” AT SCHOOL

Courty CJ WalnActivists have likened the bill to a gag orr or to the “No Promo Homo” laws of the 1990s that barred tors om discsg queer topics the bill would ban lsons ncerng genr or sexual orientatn classrooms om krgarten to third gra, would also not allow them when is age-appropriate or not le wh state standards. "Regardls of whether this bill pass or not, gay kids and trans kids are still gog to be schools, are still gog to be experiencg beg gay and beg trans, " Fenng said.

FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL IS CEL AND DANGERO

But Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has sudnly sparked a natnal war of 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. ” 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.

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 legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn. “The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ moniker is a moniker about a certa polil amg of this suatn.

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

”Beyond brandg, a re argument over the bill centers around whether would prohib the “stctn” or “discsn” of sexual 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. “The church don’t hate gay people, I don’t hate gay people.

“There is nothg wrong or bad about beg gay, but is clear that a hband and a wife is what God tend.

WHE HOE NMNS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

It wasn’t the first time anti-gay msagg was celly dropped onto my shoulrs at school, and wouldn’t be the last time eher.

FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'

But even wh this reassurance, took me a long time to e to terms wh my sexualy: I spent eight hours a day trapped at school, beg battered wh sual homophobic remarks om teachers and stunts alike.

AFTER PROTTS, DISNEY CEO SPEAKS OUT AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

It built somethg wh me that I wouldn’t unrstand for years to e, heavy like a are the memori that e back to me when I thk of Florida’s Hoe Bill 1557, aka the Don’t Say Gay Bill, which was signed to law by Gov. Stunts Florida (and around the untry) are fightg back agast the Don’t Say Gay policy wh peer-led walk-outs, prottg this law support of themselv and their classmat. It would have meant everythg to me as a kid if the iends I loved and the peers I sat bi for hours took actn agast the anti-gay msagg promoted my school system.

DISNEY VOWS TO HELP REPEAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW, SAYS FLORIDA GOV. DESANTIS SHOULDN'T HAVE SIGNED

That number rose by six percentage pots sce 2016 — but wh laws like Don’t Say Gay takg effect, stunts n do more. When I me out at age 23, the first place I turned was to my queer iends, who held me, lerally and figuratively, when ternalized homophobia and fear ate away at me om the si.