The Missouri bill, troduced by Republin Mike Moon, is even broar than Florida's so-lled "Don't Say Gay" law. It would impact public and charters schools throughout gras K-12, and bans discsn of genr or sexual orientatn unls 's by a licensed mental health provir wh parental permissn.
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- IT’S NOT JT FLORIDA. 15 OTHER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’-STYLE BILLS ARE CROPPG UP NATNWI
- MISSOURI SENATE BAT ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL BANNG TALK OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR SCHOOLS
- MISSOURI PROPOSAL GO FURTHER THAN 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL
IT’S NOT JT FLORIDA. 15 OTHER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’-STYLE BILLS ARE CROPPG UP NATNWI
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The State(s) of 'Don't Say Gay' and Other School Censorship Efforts.
Ron DeSantis signed the state's "don't say gay" bill to law Monday, but the Sunshe State isn't alone the efforts -- 's actually part of a natnal other stat are nsirg legislatn that would ban or rtrict classroom (or unselg office) discsn of LGBTQ+ issu and inty or books and other tnal materials that have LGBTQ+ ntent. The bills aren't surfacg only ral stat or the Deep South -- they've also e up such reliably blue stat as Illois, New Jersey, and Rho Island, although they have ltle chance of passg, The Advote looks at the history of "don't say gay" bills analyz the current state of the and other censorship attempts -- and the legislators behd them. What Is a 'Don't Say Gay' Bill and What's the History?
MISSOURI SENATE BAT ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL BANNG TALK OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR SCHOOLS
"Don't say gay" bills have gotten much publicy this year, but they're really nothg new. Stacey Campfield troduced a bill that would ban any lsons related to homosexualy through eighth gra.
Campfield is no longer office, but other Tennsee lawmakers are tryg there was "don't say gay, " there was "no promo homo" -- bills that proliferated the 1980s and '90s as nservative legislators rpond to the AIDS crisis by seekg to ban what they nsired "promotn of homosexualy" schools, pecially sex tn urs.
MISSOURI PROPOSAL GO FURTHER THAN 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL
What's the Difference Between "Don't Say Gay" and "No Promo Homo" Bills? A major difference between "no promo homo" bills and "don't say gay" bills is that the latter often have a "heavy-hand mandate on parent and fay volvement, " says Melanie Willgham-Jaggers, GLSEN's executive director. "The mandat are harmful and risk relsly outg LGBTQ+ young people to fai who do not affirm their children's inti, " Willgham-Jaggers when "don't say gay" bills don't pass, the anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric that up the bat over them do harm, pots out Cathryn Oakley, state legislative director and senr unsel at the Human Rights Campaign.
She also not that the bills are more accurately scribed as "don't say gay or trans" bills, as they target transgenr people along wh everyone else unr the LGBTQ+ umbrella. Those who support "don't say gay or trans" bills across all stat are virtually all chief sponsor of Florida's bill is Sen.
Louisiana's versn of a "don't say gay or trans" bill, Hoe Bill 837, is pretty drastic. "Chris Kaiser, advocy director for the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn's Louisiana affiliate, noted to the paper that the bill "seems to be part of a trend to file a lot of different typ of legislatn that is jt aimed at villaizg gay and transgenr people and basilly removg them om public life. It's not hard to image homophobic or transphobic parents not wantg their kids exposed to the "liftyl.