Beyond Florida: How 'Don't Say Gay' law hurts LGBTQ kids across US

Contents:

• GEN Z WON’T STAY QUIET ON FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• FLORIDA BOARD APPROV EXPANSN OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BAN TO ALL SCHOOL GRAS
• WHAT’S GOG ON WH FLORIDA’S TERRIFYG NEW ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL?
• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PASS FLORIDA, GO TO ERNOR
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' L EXPAND THROUGH 12TH GRA FLORIDA
• HOW FLORIDA'S EXPANSN OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW WILL HURT STUNTS AND TEACHERS ACROSS US
• WHAT’S NEXT? AN EXPAND ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL AND RTRICTNS ON ‘PREFERRED’ PRONOUNS FOR KIDS
• IMPACT OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW ON LGBTQ+ PARENTS; MORE THAN HALF NSIRED MOVG OUT OF FL

GEN Z WON’T STAY QUIET ON FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill overme s fal legislative hurdle on Tuday, when the state Senate voted to pass the measure. Stunts across the state have walked out of their classrooms prott of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill this month. Larks on Monday led a walkout of more than 500 stunts at Wter Park High School, many of whom chanted, “We say gay!

Stars such as Ariana Gran have reposted vios om stunt-led ralli agast the “Don’t Say Gay” bill to show their support. Joshua Rh, who played Disney Channel’s first out gay character on the seri “Andi Mack” and me out as bisexual 2019, said that while he was “heartened” to hear Chapek say the pany will evaluate s donatns, “the facts are clear: queer kids Ameri are unr attack by a far-right agenda fund partly through rporate donatns.

Javi Gomez, a senr at Miami’s iPrep Amy, ttified agast the “Don’t Say Gay” measure Tallahassee last month. In earlier appearanc before Congrs, high school stunt CJ Waln told the Miami Herald, he felt as though lawmakers were ignorg him and his fellow stunt speakers who’d asked them to rensir the “Don’t Say Gay” bills, but he won’t stop speakg out.

FLORIDA BOARD APPROV EXPANSN OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BAN TO ALL SCHOOL GRAS

Florida’s board of tn has approved the expansn of the state’s so-lled “don’t say gay” bill, which now prohibs discsns of sexual orientatn and genr inty at school across all gra levels. ”As a rult of DeSantis’s “don’t say gay” bill and his culture war agast “wokens”, the ernor, who is wily expected to lnch his 2024 printial n, has found himself gog head to head wh Disney, one of the state’s largt private month, Disney phed back agast DeSantis’s crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights by announcg s plans to host a major LGBTQ+ nference at Walt Disney World Orlando.

The same is unfortunately te Florida, where a piece of legislatn dubbed the Don’t Say Gay bill has worked s way through the state’s Senate. Below, fd everythg you need to know about the bill, as well as who’s opposed to and when uld bee is the Don’t Say Gay bill?

WHAT’S GOG ON WH FLORIDA’S TERRIFYG NEW ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL?

The Parental Rights Edutn bill—also known as the Don’t Say Gay bill—prevents schools om cludg material about sexual orientatn or genr inty their curriculums, notg that lsons “may not occur krgarten through gra three or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards. If DeSantis do sign the Don’t Say Gay bill, will go to effect on July 1, is Disney volved? Many LGBTQ+ Disney employe have exprsed outrage at their pany’s weak rponse to the Don’t Say Gay bill.

‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PASS FLORIDA, GO TO ERNOR

The proposal, which opponents have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, now mov to the sk of Republin Gov. Smh, a Democrat who is gay, addg that “sends a terrible msage to our youth that there is somethg wrong wh LGBTQ people, that there is somethg so dangero or appropriate about that we have to be prohibed and censored om the classroom.

HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

Dozens of stunts and advot flood mtee rooms durg the proposal’s early stag and then packed to the halls of the legislature as moved toward fal passage, often wh chants of “We say gay! DeSantis has chafed at llg the proposal the “Don’t Say Gay” bill bee he said would apply to stctn on any genr inty or sexual orientatn.

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. For starters, cricism that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill do not fact say “gay” anywhere s text is te.

SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' L EXPAND THROUGH 12TH GRA FLORIDA

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.

HOW FLORIDA'S EXPANSN OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW WILL HURT STUNTS AND TEACHERS ACROSS US

”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. It looks like this le would make impossible to do much stctn at all, " Lra McGnis, of the LGBTQ advocy group PFLAG, prevly told ABC law was dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by crics for aimg to rtrict curriculum that clus history, lerature and more that touch on LGBTQ inti. Our rearch suggts the so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill is bad for stunts and tors – and not jt origal Florida law, passed sprg 2022, prohibed teachers om discsg the topics wh elementary stunts.

WHAT’S NEXT? AN EXPAND ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL AND RTRICTNS ON ‘PREFERRED’ PRONOUNS FOR KIDS

Although there are partisan differenc, 63% of adults, acrdg to rearch om the Universy of Southern California, believe high school stunts – now vered by the expand Florida policy – should learn about LGBTQ+ issu, like transgenr rights, gay rights and exprsns of genr inty. As the 2023 legislative ssn looms, GOP lawmakers are lookg to expand the so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law Florida that earned natnal notoriety last year and rtrict the e of “pronouns” for stunts and school employe.

The Don’t Say Gay moniker refers to 2022 legislatn formally tled Parental Rights In Edutn. Current law unr the “Don’t Say Gay” statute says that LGBTQ+ topics should not be tght “ a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards. The Phoenix prevly reported that the term “charter school” did not appear the 2022 “Don’t Say Gay” law, so was unclear if charter schools were exempt om the prohibn of LGBTQ+ topics classrooms.

Durg the 2022 ssn, the “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn ed an uproar among the LGBTQ+ muny and s alli. In March 2022, the Capol buildg loted Tallahassee was filled wh high schoolers who skipped school orr to prott the “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn, who shouted their disda for the bill and chanted the phrase ‘F— DeSantis.

IMPACT OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW ON LGBTQ+ PARENTS; MORE THAN HALF NSIRED MOVG OUT OF FL

A new report says that more than half of LGBTQ+ Florida parents surveyed say they’re nsirg movg out of the Sunshe State bee of the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill that has already impacted fai sce was enacted last year.