Florida Classrooms Are Changg After “Don’t Say Gay”

Contents:

• AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
• HOW THE “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW IS AFFECTG FLORIDA LGBTQ STUNTS AND TEACHERS
• THE GAY RABOW IS A MARK OF THE BEAST
• TEACHERS TOLD TO REMOVE RABOWS, PHOTOS OF SAME-SEX SPO AS DESANTIS’ ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW GO INTO EFFECT
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• RANDY RABOW GETS REAL ABOUT FLORIDA’S ‘REPREHENSIBLE’ ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: ‘IT’S REALLY JT A HORROR’
• SOME TAMPA BAY RAYS PLAYERS REFED TO WEAR A PRI RABOW, SAY THEY REJECT GAY ‘BEHAVR’
• HOW GAY? RANDY RABOW GAY. NEW SONG “GAY!” LISTS THE WAYS HE’S SO GAY JT AS RON DESANTIS’ DON’T SAY GAY BILL BE LAW #SAYGAY

AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS

As Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn law — or what crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law — go to effect Friday, some of the state’s public school districts have begun rollg out new polici to lim LGBTQ issu and inti om beg discsed the Tuday night, the Leon County School Board unanimoly approved s “LGBTQ Inclive School Gui, ” which clus a provisn to alert parents if a stunt who is “open about their genr inty” is their child’s physil tn class or wh them on an overnight school trip. Clifford / AP fileThe so-lled Don’t Say Gay law, HB 1557, bans “stctn” about sexual orientatn or genr inty “ krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards. ” A provisn the law also requir school staff members to alert parents about “cril cisns affectg a stunt’s mental, emotnal, or physil health or well-beg, ” which many advot have terpreted as a way to force tors to out their gay or trans stunts.

HOW THE “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW IS AFFECTG FLORIDA LGBTQ STUNTS AND TEACHERS

They have also ntend that will not prohib teachers and stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 attack at the Pulse gay nightclub crics and legal experts have said the broad language of the law uld open school districts and teachers to lawsus om parents who believe any nversatn about LGBTQ people or issu is “not age appropriate. Carlos Smh, a Democrat who is gay and has been an outspoken cric of the new law, said he was “not surprised” that schools the state were announcg the polici and guil.

“What’s happeng right now — wh the censorship of rabow flags and school districts preparg to basilly ph LGBTQ stunts and teachers to the closet — is exactly what we said would happen wh the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law. "Members and supporters of the LGBTQ muny at the "Say Gay Anyway" rally Miami Beach, Fla., on March 13. Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty Imag fileFive other stat — all of them the South — have enacted laws that lim stctn or discsns about LGBTQ people or issu school, and at least 32 others have proposed such measur this year, acrdg to acrdg to the Movement Advancement Project, an LGBTQ thk tank that has been trackg the strsed that the polici will have nsequenc for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer stunts, potg to the disproportnately high rat of suici attempts among the untry’s LGBTQ youths.

THE GAY RABOW IS A MARK OF THE BEAST

”In Palm Beach County, Woods, who is gay, said that after they received the qutnnaire om school officials to flag urse material or books wh LGBTQ referenc, many of his lleagu are nervo they’ll be reprimand if they miss somethg. Foreman, a 60-year-old lbian wh short gray hair and wire-rimmed glass, is a sponsor of the school’s gay–straight is the fifth-most-diverse public school the state: 28% of stunts are whe, another 28% are Latx, and 27% are Black.

“Anythg that uld even remotely be nsted as gay-related me down. There are many people who ntributed to the formatn of our untry that serve regnn, ” she said, mentng gay general Baron Friedrich von Stben, who was tegral to Ameri wng the Revolutnary sce the passage of the Parental Rights Edutn Bill, dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” by crics, attendance has been down Ballard’s classroom.

“Don’t Say Gay, ” signed to law by recently reelected Florida Gov. “I thk parents said, ‘I don’t want my kid the class where the teacher is gog to make my kid gay. Although “Don’t Say Gay” didn’t go to effect until Augt, the rabows me down Foreman’s room when the bill was proposed March, and school board meetgs turned to shoutg match over gay and lbian teachers and cril race theory.

TEACHERS TOLD TO REMOVE RABOWS, PHOTOS OF SAME-SEX SPO AS DESANTIS’ ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW GO INTO EFFECT

Acrdg to spokperson Maniglia, “Unr [the Parental Rights Edutn Act] [a Sarasota County] teacher/staff member is not obligated to tell the parent if stunt disclos to them that they are gay etc. DeSantis ma clear that the tent and effect of the bill is to supprs the abily of gay or transgenr stunts to exprs themselv, while allowg heterosexual, cisgenr stunts to do so. In September, I met a group of Pe View stunts at a Starbucks across the road om their school to talk about how “Don’t Say Gay” was affectg them.

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

“In send and third gra, I ed to talk about my gay parents all the time. Col, a soft-spoken sophomore, chimed . “I am gay.

Col said he don’t feel unsafe bee he’s gay.

” And the stunts told me no rabows or LGBTQ symbols had been removed om their the “Don’t Say Gay” bill passed, hundreds of middle and high school stunts at Pe View staged a walkout on March 3.

RANDY RABOW GETS REAL ABOUT FLORIDA’S ‘REPREHENSIBLE’ ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: ‘IT’S REALLY JT A HORROR’

Zanr Moricz, who graduated May 2022, anized the walkout and beme the youngt platiff a lawsu brought by the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights and law firm Kaplan Hecker & Fk agast “Don’t Say Gay, ” seekg to block enforcement of the law on the grounds that vlated stunts’ rights to ee speech, equal protectn, and due procs. )The overwhelmg sentiment that the stunts kept brgg up was fear: fear that classmat would be outed to their parents, that gay teachers would be forced to rign, and that tn would no longer be about learng but about polics stead.

SOME TAMPA BAY RAYS PLAYERS REFED TO WEAR A PRI RABOW, SAY THEY REJECT GAY ‘BEHAVR’

Lily said that the “Don’t Say Gay” law is self based on a “fear that if you are discsg LGBTQ issu … children are gog to be pletely md warped. Lily said that the effects of “Don’t Say Gay” were tangible and immediate.

”In their mpaigns for “Don’t Say Gay”–type laws, DeSantis and other Republins have claimed that “genr iologi” were rife the classroom. When I asked the stunts if this was actually happeng at school, all four said belief that public school teachers are forcg stunts to be trans or gay is “100% driven by this mass irratnal fear on behalf of nservative voic the muny, ” Bailey said.

“They are unr the assumptn that you go to school, and then the teachers jt preach that you should be gay, you should be trans. ” Lily add that she only remembered beg tght about gay people or genr once durg her years school, “durg an AP European History class, which was the textbook that the College Board provid .

HOW GAY? RANDY RABOW GAY. NEW SONG “GAY!” LISTS THE WAYS HE’S SO GAY JT AS RON DESANTIS’ DON’T SAY GAY BILL BE LAW #SAYGAY

“Don’t Say Gay” has “allowed the Sarasota County School Board to create new polici that are, for lack of better words, extremely reprsive wh our school, ” Mchell said.

Frisbee, who is gay, said that he’d seen the effects of “Don’t Say Gay” when he vised his alma mater a month earlier. ”Mchell said she had e out to iends and teachers, cludg Foreman, right before “Don’t Say Gay” was announced. Frisbee, Mosquera, and Mchell thk that Booker High is rpondg to “Don’t Say Gay” a more extreme way than other schools.

“It didn’t make the gay kid straight bee they read straight material, ” she said.