Supporters of Florida’s “don’t say gay” law lie about one ccial word.

Contents:

• SAY GAY
• THE BIGGT LIE ABOUT FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL ERAS ONE CCIAL WORD
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• NYC DIGAL BILLBOARD MPAIGN SPEAKG OUT AGAST ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW SPOTTED JACKSONVILLE
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• SAY GAY BUTTONS
• DISNEY TAK HEAT OVER PUBLIC STANCE ON FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW, BUT NBCUNIVERSAL AND OTHER STUDS KEEP AWAY THE FRAY
• SAY GAY BUTTONS & PS

SAY GAY

One of the most od bills was enacted 2022 Florida and emed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill and puts stctors who mentn LGBTQ topics unr threat of lawsus om hateful parents. And alli and acplic across the untry have stood up to proudly say GAY. The person on the left asks, “Gay?

THE BIGGT LIE ABOUT FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL ERAS ONE CCIAL WORD

” and their unterpart on the right rponds, “Gay. Say Gay quanty. bisexual, tn, gay, genr, lbian, lgbt, lgbtq, queer, queer youth, sexualy, youth.

1557, dubbed the “don’t say gay” bill, the law’s most proment supporters have refed to publicly tell the tth about what the measure actually says.

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

It is need, they say, to prevent “groomers”—specifilly, gay and trans teachers—om attemptg to rpt and doctrate children wh explic classroom materials. The “don’t say gay” moniker, they sist, is misleadg: Teachers and stunts n still talk about LGBTQ issu; they jt n’t force 8-and-unrs to learn about gay sex and genr transn. Set asi, for now, this revival of the od myth that gay people prey on children, attemptg to “nvert” or “rec” them to homosexualy, then moltg them.

1557’s proponents are rrect that the bill do not e the word gay.

NYC DIGAL BILLBOARD MPAIGN SPEAKG OUT AGAST ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW SPOTTED JACKSONVILLE

The New Face of “No Promo Homo” Laws. Part of a class of legislatn lloquially known as “don’t say gay” bills, which have been troduced several state legislatur recent years, the Florida bill, if passed, uld easily be nsted as a directive to tors to erase all mentn of margalized people’s liv om the classroom.

Its implitn—that the mere existence of LGBTQ people is an appropriate topic for children—draws on a long history of homophobic legislatn that portrays queer inti as hypersexualized and perverted. (Some of the “Don’t Say Gay” laws make exceptns that would seem to perm some discsn of sexual orientatn—provisns that allow for teachg about LGBTQ historil figur, for stance, or the Florida bill’s cutout for “age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate” material. (In Texas, certa tnal materials mt “state that homosexual nduct is not an acceptable liftyle and is a crimal offense, ” even though gay sex has been legal sce the Supreme Court’s 2003 lg Lawrence v.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

But the past few years, several stat have stck down the olr laws, known lloquially as “no promo homo” laws, a move that me after LGBTQ advocy groups challenged them wh lawsus. The newer “don’t say gay” bills appear to be an attempt to avoid such charg of discrimatn. They replace explic referenc to homo- and heterosexualy—which would dite disparate treatment—wh the tch-all terms sexual orientatn and genr inty.

This kd of smotherg environment is the sired oute of Florida’s “don’t say gay” bill. He liv near Pulse, the gay nightclub Orlando where a gunman killed 49 victims 2016—a massacre Wolf ped and survived.

Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat.

SAY GAY BUTTONS

“People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda.

“One of them is a gay Democrat who’s married to a man. The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak.

DISNEY TAK HEAT OVER PUBLIC STANCE ON FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW, BUT NBCUNIVERSAL AND OTHER STUDS KEEP AWAY THE FRAY

Lol NewsNYC mayor to Floridians: Come here where you n say gay Governor Ron DeSantis is firg back after the mayor of New York Cy ved Floridians to move to the Big Apple rponse to the ntroversial new Florida law that lims how genr inty and sexual orientatn n be tght to young children. Crics ll the “Don’t Say Gay” law bee do put lims on what school teachers n discs surroundg the topics. Related: NYC mayor to Floridians: Come here where you n say gay | Paxon stunts participate walkout to prott Parental Rights Edutn lawMsag on the digal billboards clu: “People say a lot of ridiculo thgs New York.

SAY GAY BUTTONS & PS

‘Don’t Say Gay’ isn’t one of them” and “Come to the cy where you n say whatever you want.

-based profsnal league to e out as gay. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. Ially took heat for not takg a public posn on Florida’s so-lled “don’t say gay” bill — and now they are unr fire for dog jt that.