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Contents:

• WHAT A NATNAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD MEAN FOR TN
• FLORIDA STUNTS STAGE SCHOOL WALKOUTS OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• FLORIDA’S LGBTQ ADVOT ARE RALLYG TO SUPPORT YOUNG PEOPLE LIGHT OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’
• PROTTS NTUE AGAST FLORIDA 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
• FLORIDA STUNT WHO ORGANIZED 'DON'T SAY GAY' PROTT IS SPEND
• PROTTERS RALLY AGAST 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL AT FLORIDA STATE CAPOL
• STUNTS RALLY MIAMI AHEAD OF ‘DON'T SAY GAY' BILL VOTE

WHAT A NATNAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD MEAN FOR TN

Parents would be allowed to file a lawsu agast any public or private enty that feral funds to display or facilate ntent featurg LGBTQ an agency or anizatn vlat the rtrictns more than once a five-year perd, uld lose accs to feral funds for three years, acrdg to the bill specifilly mentns drag shows, which have been the recent target of cricism by nservative groups advotg for laws such as this prott ont of Florida State Senator Ileana Garcia's office after the passage of the Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by LGBTQ activists Miami, March 09, Raedle/Getty Imag, FILEProposed bill prompts cricismThe bill sparked immediate backlash om some LGBTQ people and activists across the untry, who say this legislatn misreprents the inti as herently sexual, shameful or assert that this kd of legislatn will silence and harm LGBTQ teachers and stunts, while stigmatizg the muny and threateng ferally fund programs on cln.

"A feral 'Don't Say Gay or Trans' bill – moled after the ntroversial discrimatory law Florida and aimg to drive LGBTQ+ fai and teachers out of the tn system – is their latt cel attempt to stigmatize and margalize the muny, not an attempt to solve actual problems but only to rile up their extremist base, " said David Stacy, the ernment affairs director of LGBTQ advocy group Human Rights Campaign.

FLORIDA STUNTS STAGE SCHOOL WALKOUTS OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

Supporters rally to ph back agast the so-lled "Don't Say Gay" at the Pri Center Wilton Manors, Fla., Feb. Several stat have followed Florida's lead, cludg Alabama, which has implemented so-lled "Don't Say Gay" polici of s own. Stunts across Florida staged school walkouts rponse to legislatn — dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill — that would prohib discsg sexual orientatn and genr inty the state’s primary schools.

Stunts wavg rabow picket signs and shoutg “We say gay! "I believe this attempt to threaten me and remove me om mp is riddled wh homophobia and bigotry, " said Petocz, who is gay. "You’re silencg a queer stunt standg up for what he believ , his rights, and you’re disciplg him for challengg you on the allowance of pri flags a gay rally?

Hillsborough High School stunts prott the "Don't Say Gay" bill Thursday Tampa, Fla. The measure’s opponents ntend that the bill would be trimental to the mental health of the state’s LGBTQ children and teachers, preventg them om openly talkg about themselv and their Joe Hardg, the Republin who troduced the bill January, has repeatedly said the bill would not prohib stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 attack on the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando.

FLORIDA’S LGBTQ ADVOT ARE RALLYG TO SUPPORT YOUNG PEOPLE LIGHT OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’

"So I feel like should be tght schools bee will help other people jt like me know that 's OK to be gay. Petersburg, Gibbs High School, is draped wh rabow flags, Gay Straight Alliance club posters "everywhere" and other LGBTQ-affirmg symbols.

This weekend, Javi Gomez is travelg nearly 500 om his native Miami to Florida’s pal Tallahassee to plead his se agast a piece of legislatn LGBTQ advot are llg the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Some exposure to LGBTQ topics – what means to be gay, queer or transgenr, and why ’s wrong to discrimate agast LGBTQ people – might have helped alleviate the pa they flicted, he said. Many advot have lled Florida home for s: Galv, a cy uncil member North Miami, remembers beg the only gay kid his Miami high school senr class.

Schools are already often hostile environments for LGBTQ kids – nearly 33% of LGBTQ stunts ag 13 to 21 said they missed a day of school over the urse of a month bee they felt unsafe or unfortable, and more than 77% said they avoid school functns bee they felt unsafe or unfortable, acrdg to the most recent Natnal School Climate Survey published by the GLSEN (the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network) 2019. 8% of LGBTQ stunts said they heard “gay” ed a negative way, and more than 95% of them heard homophobic slurs while at school. Miami high school stunt Gomez said wasn’t until he found out one of his teachers was gay that he started to experience somethg that felt like nfince.

PROTTS NTUE AGAST FLORIDA 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

They’ve served learship rol wh those muni for years – Orlando has had Commissner Patty Sheehan, the first out gay elected official central Florida, acrdg to the cy, sce 2000, and Galv has served on North Miami’s cy uncil for almost as long. He’s the print of his high school Gay Straight Alliance, or GSA, and leads after-school urs on queer history and ballroom culture, semars wh doctors on safe sex, and viewg parti for “Pose” and “Legendary, ” seri that star queer and trans people of lor. Demonstrators gathered ont of and si the Florida State Capol on Monday to stop the legislatn that has been dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

"We say gay, " they chanted, the sound echog throughout the halls as they anticipated a vote on the bill expected Monday. But Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has sudnly sparked a natnal war of 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. ” 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.

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

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 legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn.

“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 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. 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. 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.

FLORIDA STUNT WHO ORGANIZED 'DON'T SAY GAY' PROTT IS SPEND

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.

PROTTERS RALLY AGAST 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL AT FLORIDA STATE CAPOL

A Florida stunt has been spend om his high school after anizg a mass prott agast the "don't say gay" Petocz, who attends Flagler Palm Coast High School, promoted a statewi walkout agast the Parental Rights Edutn legislatn, which would ban the discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty certa gras at Florida leadg the walkout at his own school on Thursday, Petocz distributed around 200 pri flags for a rally. The teenager told The Daytona Beach News-Journal that he had been advised not to hand out the flags by the school's prcipal, Greg a statement posted on social media, Petocz said he had wanted to prott the "homophobic and discrimatory legislatn" at the rally, which had been approved by the school. Newsweek has ntacted Prcipal Schwartz for "don't say gay" bill—which is signed to give parents more say their children's tn, acrdg to s sponsors—has been approved by the Florida Hoe of Reprentativ and is supported by Governor Ron legislatn has e for cricism si and outsi the state, however, wh Print Joe Bin among those voicg opposn to .

STUNTS RALLY MIAMI AHEAD OF ‘DON'T SAY GAY' BILL VOTE

A gay pri flag is waved by fans durg the MLS match between Atlanta Uned and Orlando Cy at Orlando Cy Stadium on July 21, 2017. Stunts Florida are g pri flags at protts agast the state's "don't say gay" bill. Stunts, teachers, and supporters om across Florida flocked to the state Capol Tallahassee on Monday ahead of a state Senate bate of the so-lled "Don't Say Gay or Trans" bill opponents say will have "vastatg nsequenc" for LGBTQ+ youth.

"As stunts and supporters chanted "we say gay" downtown Miami before boardg b Sunday night for the eight-hour trip to the state pal, Miami-Da Mayor Daniella Leve Cava toldWSVN that "'s shameful what's gog on Tallahassee.