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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.

“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.

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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. 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.

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

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