Billboards across Florida enurage people to 'say gay'

Contents:

• 'WE SAY GAY ALL DAY': HUNDREDS AT HEARTWOOD SOUNDSTAGE PROTT SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• THE SAY GAY ALL DAY PRI CABARET: PRENTED BY LORI DOKKEN
• SAY GAY ALL DAY STICKER SHEET
• WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS
• WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
• BILLBOARDS ACROSS FLORIDA ENURAGE PEOPLE TO 'SAY GAY'
• 'SAY GAY' BILLBOARDS THAT FY GOV. RON DESANTIS' SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL ARE ABOUT TO BE POPPG UP FLORIDA CI
• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: WHAT DO MEAN?
• GAY
• GAY QUOT
• D.C. GAY UPLE ROBBED, PISTOL WHIPPED BUT U.S. ATTORNEY HAS YET TO PROSECUTE

'WE SAY GAY ALL DAY': HUNDREDS AT HEARTWOOD SOUNDSTAGE PROTT SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

“I only had my teachers (to talk to) bee I did not have an affirmative hoehold, ” she executive director of the Unspoken Treasur Society said she worri that the bill crics dub as "Don't Say Gay" is gog to quash that opportuny for stunts to air their views class, creatg a chillg was among the hundreds of people support of the LGBTQ muny who attend a rally at Heartwood Soundstage on Saturday to make their ncerns known about the bill, which has been approved by the Legislature but still needs to be signed by Gov.

”Devastatg msage:'Don't Say Gay' bill sends a vastatg msage to LGBTQ+ adults and childrenWalk out:GHS 'Don't Say Gay' WalkoutStunts mobilize:Alachua County stunts mobilize prott of the ntroversial 'Don't Say Gay' billSce s ceptn, the legislatn has drawn tense opposn om LGBTQ advot, stunts, natnal Democrats, the Whe Hoe and the entertament dtry.

THE SAY GAY ALL DAY PRI CABARET: PRENTED BY LORI DOKKEN

”People the dience held up signs such as “We Say Gay: Protect Trans Kids, ” and “We Say Gay All Day.

Organizatns that support the LGBTQ muny, cludg several church anizatns, had tabl and booths at the event wh lerature promotg their so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn stat: “Classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty may not occur krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards.

“Pri Communy Center of North Central Florida Print Tamara Perry-Lunardo said they nounce the “Don’t Say Gay” bill due to the “silencg nature of s rtrictns on the topics of sexual orientatn and genr intify public classrooms.

SAY GAY ALL DAY STICKER SHEET

“The board fds that the 'Don’t Say Gay' bill is trimental to the health and welfare of Alachua County youth, and urg Gov.

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

But Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has sudnly sparked a natnal war of words.In 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.” Kate McKnon ripped to the bill durg a recent “Weekend Update” segment on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” The hosts of the ABC talk show “The View” mulled over the policy for more than seven mut on air last month. Ron DeSantis, who has said he supports the bill but hasn't signed yet, and Disney CEO Bob Chapek.Supporters of HB 1557 say would give parents greater ntrol over their children’s tn, vditg their “parental thory.” 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.”So, which is ?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 twice.But legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn.”“In the same way that cril race theory isn’t beg tght schools, that hasn’t stopped people like the ernor of Florida om ployg the term ‘cril race theory’ efforts to engage certa kds of polil manvergs,” said Charlton Copeland, a profsor at the Universy of Miami School of Law who wr about sexual orientatn and genr inty.

“The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ moniker is a moniker about a certa polil amg of this suatn.”Beyond brandg, a re argument over the bill centers around whether would prohib the “stctn” or “discsn” of sexual orientatn.The 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. Together, we n advance equy + jtice to bat homophobia, transphobia, and other jtic that impact those the queer spectm. and Everyday Say Gay are muny iativ of A Great Ia.

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

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'I am eply gay': Kate McKnon mocks Florida's ntroversial bill.

BILLBOARDS ACROSS FLORIDA ENURAGE PEOPLE TO 'SAY GAY'

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. 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.

'SAY GAY' BILLBOARDS THAT FY GOV. RON DESANTIS' SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL ARE ABOUT TO BE POPPG UP FLORIDA CI

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.

‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: WHAT DO MEAN?

Today, we have an analysis of a piece of tn legislatn Florida that crics have referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” we have news of our own: We’re makg some chang to the Edutn Briefg. See below for Asenc-Rhe/Tampa Bay Tim, via Associated PrsA close read of ‘Don’t Say Gay’Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is expected to sign Hoe Bill 1557, a proposed law that supporters ll the “Parental Rights Edutn” bill and opponents refer to as the “Don’t Say Gay” lleague Dana Goldste has done a close readg of the bill self, which is about much more than gay rights.

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Sentence has earned the bill the “Don’t Say Gay” nickname:L 97-101: Classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty may not occur krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state impact is clear enough: Instctn on genr and sexualy would be nstraed all gras. That uld disurage a teacher om speakg about gay fai wh the whole class, even if some stunts have gay bill also targets mental health and unselg servic — a place where stunts often have difficult nversatns about genr inty and sexualy, pecially if they stggle to talk about those nversatns at as Florida revis s school unselg standards, adopted 2010, which affirm genr and sexual diversy unselg.

Billboards poppg up some of Florida’s largt ci are enuragg passersby to “say gay. ”The massive roadsi msag are a rponse to the state’s ntroversial Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed by crics the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which Republin Gov. ”'Say Gay' billboard Orlando, Fla.

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D.C. GAY UPLE ROBBED, PISTOL WHIPPED BUT U.S. ATTORNEY HAS YET TO PROSECUTE

" — David Carter, "Stonewall: The Rts That Sparked the Gay Revolutn""Every sgle Amerin — gay, straight, lbian, bisexual, transgenr — every sgle Amerin serv to be treated equally the ey of the law and the ey of our society. A bill crics ll "Don't Say Gay" awas Florida Gov.