Largt US gay rights group issu Florida travel advisory for anti-LGBTQ+ laws – Hartford Courant

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9 Dec 2024

The pany’s tone af mishandlg of Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill has revealed a long-gtatg nflict

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THE LARGT GAY RIGHTS GROUP THE US ISSU A FLORIDA TRAVEL ADVISORY
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'

THE LARGT GAY RIGHTS GROUP THE US ISSU A FLORIDA TRAVEL ADVISORY

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Liggett, an Indiana native, and hband Mar Hernanz, a nurse om Texas, moved to South Florida knowg they’d fd a warm wele om the gay-iendly muny. ” DeSantis has riled the LGBTQ muny wh his so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law and what some nsir a polilly-motivated attack on drag queens, transgenr athlet and transn-related medil re for mors.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

“They say the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill (which bars lsons on genr inty and sexual orientatn K-12 public schools) is about parental rights, but ’s clearly not, ” Liggett said.

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

In May, the gay rights advocy group Equaly Florida joed the NAACP and a Lato civil rights anizatn issug travel advisori for Florida warng potential tourists that recent laws and polici champned by DeSantis and state lawmakers are “openly hostile” toward Ain Amerins, people of lor and LGBTQ+ dividuals. Fort Lrdale Mayor Dean Trantalis, the cy’s first openly gay mayor, knows people who are sayg farewell to Florida once and for all.

(AP photo/Eric Gay). But I’m exced to live a state where people of lor, where Jews, gay people, trans people are valued. “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.

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