Teachers are already gettg fired, rigng & speakg out agast Don't Say Gay movement - LGBTQ Natn

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• IN A DEEP-RED FLORIDA COUNTY, THIS GAY TEACHER QU TO SAVE HER CAREER
• TEACHERS ARE ALREADY GETTG FIRED, RIGNG & SPEAKG OUT AGAST DON’T SAY GAY MOVEMENT
• LGBTQ TEACHERS STGGLE TO NAVIGATE FLORIDA'S SO-CALLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW
• ‘HURTFUL AND SULTG’: FLORIDA TEACHERS REACT TO THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

IN A DEEP-RED FLORIDA COUNTY, THIS GAY TEACHER QU TO SAVE HER CAREER

" The district also shared plats om parents who were ncerned about the nversatn and the artwork, acrdg to the NBC 's firg amid a natnwi discsn over whether LGBTQ issu or inti should be discsed at bate was igned earlier this year by the newly enacted Florida law, which crics have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill. “No one is teachg your kids to be gay!

“Sometim they jt are gay.

TEACHERS ARE ALREADY GETTG FIRED, RIGNG & SPEAKG OUT AGAST DON’T SAY GAY MOVEMENT

I lerally don’t have time to teach your kids to be gay. ”“This gay teacher, who accepts her stunts exactly as they are, outsred the unty by 15% geometry and outsred the state by 10%, ” she add.

”Hundreds of people had shown up for the meetg, largely due to an ongog ntroversy over a fifth-gra teacher who had shown her stunts a Disney movie that clud a gay character. And I’m gay.

Marano was worried about gettg fired for vlatg Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law, which lims what teachers n say about genr inty and sexual orientatn the classroom and allows for a teacher’s license to be revoked if they break the law. Jenna Barbee, the teacher who showed her class “Strange World, ” a movie about climate change that has a gay character, has also recently rigned.

LGBTQ TEACHERS STGGLE TO NAVIGATE FLORIDA'S SO-CALLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW

Shannon Rodriguez, a parent the district and a member of the school board who is backed by the ultranservative group Moms 4 Liberty, reported Barbee to the partment after she learned about stunts seeg the movie last said she’s worried that small gtur, like displayg a Pri flag, and teachers talkg to stunts about their liv outsi of school uld be grounds for disciplary actn unr the Don’t Say Gay law. “Providg stunts wh a rabow flag don’t mean you’re teachg kids to be gay, ” Marano said.

“You nnot teach kids to be gay or straight, ” Marano said.

Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill isn’t yet effect, but the hostile environment that surrounds the law the state’s K-12 schools has already potentially rulted a teacher’s firg.

‘HURTFUL AND SULTG’: FLORIDA TEACHERS REACT TO THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

”Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, officially named the Parental Rights Edutn bill, was signed to law by Gov. Check this out: Meet the Teens Fightg Florida's “Don't Say Gay” BillStay up-to-date wh the polics team.

A gay teacher and a lbian teacher are speakg out agast the harassment and censorship they’ve faced as school boards and state legislatur ban LGBTQ and anti-racist ntent om classrooms. Willie Carver — a gay French and English teacher at Montgomery County High School Mount Sterlg, Kentucky — told a U. “I’ve always faced discrimatn as a gay teacher and I’ve weathered the storm bee my prence sav liv, ” Carver told the submtee.

In fact, schools are termatg gay teachers wh perfect rerds, Carver said. I’ve always faced discrimatn as a gay teacher and I’ve weathered the storm bee my prence sav liv…. Even before Florida passed s “Don’t Say Gay” law banng LGBTQ discsns om krgarten through third-gra classrooms, Solomon only ever mentned her wife to a select handful of stunts: Those who had asked after disverg proof of her wife onle and those who approached her to discs their own queer inti.

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

One told her, “I like you as a person, but I don’t support gay marriage.