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• A FLORIDA CLASS PRINT ULDN’T DISCS BEG GAY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATN SPEECH – SO HE TALKED ABOUT HIS CURLY HAIR
• FLA. CLASS PRINT TOLD HE ULDN’T SPEAK ABOUT BEG GAY HAIR METAPHOR
• GAY CLASS PRINT SAYS HIS FLORIDA SCHOOL PLANS TO CENSOR HIS GRADUATN SPEECH
• GAY HIGH SCHOOLER SAYS HE'S 'BEG SILENCED' BY FLORIDA'S LGBTQ LAW
• HIS PRCIPAL WANTS TO CENSOR HIS GRADUATN SPEECH. THIS GAY STUNT LEAR WON’T LET IT HAPPEN
• PE VIEW HIGH SCHOOL CLASS PRINT ANIZ 'SAY GAY' WALKOUT
• GAY CLASS PRINT CENSORED BY FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL
• FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOLER COULDN’T TALK ABOUT BEG GAY GRADUATN SPEECH, SO HE TALKED ABOUT HIS “CURLY HAIR”

A FLORIDA CLASS PRINT ULDN’T DISCS BEG GAY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATN SPEECH – SO HE TALKED ABOUT HIS CURLY HAIR

High school grad uldn't say 'gay' speech, so he did this stead. The class print at a Florida high school says he wasn’t allowed to share his experience as a gay stunt his graduatn speech or how the state’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law will affect stunts like him, so he talked about somethg else that mak him a ltle different om his classmat – his curly hair.

Moricz me out durg his hman year and was the first openly-gay class print at the school, so he felt a rponsibily to addrs the ntroversy. The church’s posn on homosexualy is that while gay members are to be given love and support om their muni, the practice of homosexualy “is patible wh obedience to the will of God as revealed scripture. "I equated beg gay wh s, and I wasn’t fortable wh that my life yet, " she said.

FLA. CLASS PRINT TOLD HE ULDN’T SPEAK ABOUT BEG GAY HAIR METAPHOR

Still workg through her own sexualy, she relled gog to church and hearg a sermon about how gay people shouldn’t get married. “I pretend I agreed, even though I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, this is really hard to hear, ’” she sophomore year was tough, not only bee she was stgglg wh rencilg who she was wh her relig beliefs but there were other setbacks, too: Her grandmother and dog both died, and she went through a breakup — all the same week. He had been warned not to speak about his experience as a gay stunt, but he found a workaround by g his hair as a metaphor, WWSB Moricz, the senr class print of Pe View School for the Gifted, wanted to e his graduatn speech Sunday to speak about his experience as a gay stunt or cricize Florida Hoe Bill 1557, lled “Parental Rights Edutn” but lloquially known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

GAY CLASS PRINT SAYS HIS FLORIDA SCHOOL PLANS TO CENSOR HIS GRADUATN SPEECH

"Florida’s famo “Don’t Say Gay” law is set to take effect July, but LGBTQ+ stunts and teachers are already feelg s reprsive effects on speech and exprsn — and at least one high school is actively censorg stunts the wake of the law’s chillg Moricz, a graduatg senr at Pe View High School Sarasota County and one of the platiffs currently sug the state to block enforcement of the law, said a Twter thread Monday eveng that school officials — cludg prcipal Dr. ”Moricz is the first openly gay class print at Pe View High School, he says, and school officials generally haven’t taken well. “When admistratn disvered that I was anizg a Say Gay walkout, they had all our posters ripped om the walls and told me to shut down the prott.

] is reviewed and approved by school personnel and admistratn to be sure is appropriate” a “manner that is nsistent wh existg law, cludg the First Amendment” least 20 stat have troduced “Don’t Say Gay” laws this year. In 2018, the school cut ti wh lol nonprof Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center (SPARCC) after a unselor showed a class of senrs a Planned Parenthood vio about nsent that clud footage of upl kissg, cludg gay men and women. In the meantime, Moricz and his fellow anizers at the SEE (Social Equy and Edutn) Iniative are sendg thoands of “Say Gay” stickers to stunts across Florida to wear on their gowns as they cross the stage this year.

Moricz said he “strongly believ” the requt was rponse to a newly enacted state law, which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

GAY HIGH SCHOOLER SAYS HE'S 'BEG SILENCED' BY FLORIDA'S LGBTQ LAW

Proponents of the measure have ntend that giv parents more discretn over what their children learn school and say LGBTQ issu are “not age appropriate” for young crics have argued that the law uld stifle teachers and stunts om talkg about their inti or their lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer fay members. ”“The reason somethg like the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law seems like nothg but is actually everythg is that when you nnot talk about or share who you are, there is a nstant subnsc affirmatn that you are not valid, that you should not exist, ” Moricz fight agast the legislatn is personal for Moricz, he add. This Gay Stunt Lear Won’t Let It Happen.

"[The "Don't Say Gay" bill] is opprsg stunts, and has not even gone to effect yet, " says Zanr Moricz, his high school's first openly gay class print. “There’s somethg very dystopian about someone tellg you that you discsg your human rights would rult a ceremony beg unenjoyable or problematic, ” Zanr Moricz, the first openly gay class print at his Sarasota unty, Florida high school tells Rollg Stone. After all, the meetg me at a very poted time for Florida schools and gay stunt lears like Moricz.

Ron DeSantis signed the ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which would prohib teachers om speakg about LGBTQ issu wh stunts of a certa age group. He had spent his time high school advotg for gay rights.

HIS PRCIPAL WANTS TO CENSOR HIS GRADUATN SPEECH. THIS GAY STUNT LEAR WON’T LET IT HAPPEN

So earlier this week, Moricz logged on to Twter to share a thread about exactly what had happened, along wh a ll to actn: He ved stunts Florida to sign up to receive some of the 10, 000 “Say Gay” stickers his anizatn would be sharg to “remd unrclassmen that we’re done wh high school, not the fight.

PE VIEW HIGH SCHOOL CLASS PRINT ANIZ 'SAY GAY' WALKOUT

I am the youngt public platiff the “Don’t Say Gay” lawsu. I am my Florida high school’s first openly-gay Class Print.

GAY CLASS PRINT CENSORED BY FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL

Along wh his school activism, Moricz is also a val part of a massive feral lawsu agast DeSantis aimed at strikg down the “Don’t Say Gay” bill before go to effect this summer. A Florida class print says that he's feelg silenced after the so-lled "Don't Say Gay" bill was passed by the Republin legislature and signed by Gov.

In an terview wh NBC News, Moricz speculated that the prcipal is worried bee he led Sarasota County’s largt prott opposn to the state's "Don't Say Gay" bill. ”“The reason somethg like the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law seems like nothg but is actually everythg is that when you nnot talk about or share who you are, there is a nstant subnsc affirmatn that you are not valid, that you should not exist, ” Moricz report noted that this week, school officials at Lyman High School Longwood, Florida, refed to allow yearbooks to be distributed until photos of stunts prottg the state’s LGBTQ legislatn were pasted over.

FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOLER COULDN’T TALK ABOUT BEG GAY GRADUATN SPEECH, SO HE TALKED ABOUT HIS “CURLY HAIR”

High schoolers at Pe View School for the gifted Sarasota anized a walk-out Thursday a display of stunt opposn to the Florida Legislature passg the "Don't Say Gay" by stunt class print and LGBTQ-youth advote Zanr Moricz, hundreds of stunts gathered durg Pe View's fifth perd an effort to show solidary to their peers the LGBTQ County School board members support referendum as electn approachElsewhere the state:'Say Gay!