From book bans to 'Don’t Say Gay' bill, LGBTQ kids feel 'erased' the classroom

Contents:

• SAY GAY PROTECT TRANS KIDS READ BANNED BOOKS LGBT PRI 2023 T-SHIRT
• DON’T SAY GAY, STOP WOKE, BANNED BOOKS, AND ANTI-TRANS LAWS
• YOU CAN'T READ THAT! BANNED BOOK REVIEW: THIS BOOK IS GAY
• FROM BOOK BANS TO 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL, LGBTQ KIDS FEEL 'ERASED' THE CLASSROOM

SAY GAY PROTECT TRANS KIDS READ BANNED BOOKS LGBT PRI 2023 T-SHIRT

The no promo homo laws banned promotg beg gay school curriculums, which fostered negative stereotyp of LGBTQ+ people. In March 2022, Florida signed the Don't Say Gay bill to law, which bans schools om discsg LGBTQ+ topics — cludg discsg sexual orientatn or genr inty — gras K-3 and through gra 12, pendg on the appropriatens.

LGBTQ+ youth are more likely to experience harassment based on their sexual orientatn and genr inty at schools wh no promo homo laws. The Journal of Homosexualy survey found that the more religly nservative the llege was, the ls acceptg of LGBTQ+ stunts was.

This rulted higher rat of ternalized homophobia and prsn among LGBTQ+ stunts.

DON’T SAY GAY, STOP WOKE, BANNED BOOKS, AND ANTI-TRANS LAWS

The book has been challenged due to sexual scen and profany, as well as LGBTQ+ ntent (the ma character is gay). This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson. This Book is Gay, a nonfictn LGBTQ sex-tn book, is wrten a sual and humoro tone that has been emed vulgar by some rints of Wasilla, Alaska, who have asked for to be removed om public librari.

Addnally, Brookfield, Wisns, a nservative law firm asked for Elmbrook School District to remove This Book is Gay om s onle library, where stunts n accs via their school-issued puters.

YOU CAN'T READ THAT! BANNED BOOK REVIEW: THIS BOOK IS GAY

On Febary 6, an AHA webar, Don’t Say Gay, Stop WOKE, Banned Books, and Anti-Trans Laws: Teachg through the Backlash, brought together several historians to discs the recent spate of legislatn and executive orrs that have targeted the teachg of “divisive ncepts, ” cril race theory (CRT), LGBTQ+ history, and related topics. Are openly gay teachers beg purged Europe and the Uned Stat for vlatg such laws? After a Southern California school district rejected a state-endorsed social studi curriculum that clus material on gay rights, top state officials are vowg to buy a textbook qutn and distribute to stunts before the new school year.

The announcement is the latt dispute between state and lol officials after the Temecula Valley Unified School District’s board voted 3-2 on May 16 to reject the curriculum, wh some board members claimg there was not enough parental volvement the curriculum creatn procs as well as makg ments attackg gay rights activist and polician Harvey Milk. The curriculum – for gras one through five – ntas supplemental rource material for teachers that clus a short bgraphy of Milk, who is believed to be the first openly gay polician elected to public office California 1977. The materials scribe his liftyle and his work for gay rights California until his assassatn 1978.

Komrosky said June that his statements about Milk “were not based upon him beg a homosexual, but rather based upon him beg an adult havg a sexual relatnship wh a mor.

FROM BOOK BANS TO 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL, LGBTQ KIDS FEEL 'ERASED' THE CLASSROOM

Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey Milk.Durg the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse tn.They pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about. They lled lsons about LGBTQ+ history “pornographic” and “obscene.”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978. Earlier this year, Newsom proclaimed May 22 to be Harvey Milk Day, to honor his activism done “at great personal risk.” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe.” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy.” Joseph Komrosky, print of the Temecula Valley Unified school board, listens durg the public meetg, which lasted ne hours to early Wednday morng.

“As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told MP. Promisg the ernment would implement the “vast majory” of Etherton’s remendatns, Wallace said he would fully update the Commons a formal bate about the issue after the about pensatn, Wallace said he hoped to fd “an elegant solutn that match the need and the requirements of those dividuals”, promisg to set this out after Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, was among mpaigners who weled the apology.

Starmer said one of his nstuents, Ken Wright, a former RAF service member who was “forced to leave the job he loved simply bee he was gay”, was the public gallery to hear the apology.