The new Florida law that lims how schools and teachers n addrs sexualy and genr has sparked protts and outrage. Crics have labeled the “Don’t Say Gay” law and warned will negatively impact LGBTQ stunts. The law is steeped the evolvg attus and acceptance of the transgenr muny.
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- GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
- FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'
- FOC ON ‘PARENTAL RIGHTS’ CHIPS AWAY AT GAY RIGHTS
GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
California Gov. Gav Newsom followed through on threats to fe a school district for refg to adopt state-approved curriculum that featured gay rights activist Harvey Milk. * gay parental rights *
Every mastream health and child welfare anizatn has issued polici opposg rtrictns on parentg by lbians and gay men. Any attempt to preclu or prevent gay, lbian, and bisexual dividuals or upl om parentg, based solely on their sexual orientatn, is not the bt tert of children. ” — Posn Statement on Parentg of Children by Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults.
The Amerin Amy of Pediatrics regniz that a nsirable body of profsnal lerature provis evince that children wh parents who are homosexual n have the same advantag and the same expectatns for health, adjtment, and velopment as n children whose parents are heterosexual.
Amerin Amy of Child and Adolcent Psychiatry “There is no evince to suggt or support that parents wh a gay, lbian, or bisexual orientatn are per se different om or ficient parentg skills, child-centered ncerns and parent-child attachments, when pared to parents wh a heterosexual orientatn. ” — Policy Statement: Gay, Lbian, and Bisexual Parents. ” — NACAC Posn Statement: Gay and Lbian Adoptn and Foster Care.
FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'
Gav Newsom followed through on his threats to fe the Temecula Valley Unified School District (TVUSD), lnchg his next culture war attack agast nservative board members who rejected state-endorsed curriculum that allegedly mentns gay rights activist Harvey Milk. "GAVIN NEWSOM CELEBRATES ‘INCREDIBLE’ STORE CLAIMING TO SELL ‘BANNED’ BOOKS WHILE STUMPING FOR BIDEN IN IDAHO A close-up of Amerin polician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk (1930-1978) as he mpaigns for a posn on the San Francis Board of Supervisors September 1977. Opponents of the textbook argue that sex and homosexualy should not be tght materials for elementary school stunts, an argument emergg school districts across the natn as many ntue to clu LGBTQ+ ntent si the classroom.
Milk, the person ntentn, was the first gay man to w an electn San Francis. Wright, her cisn now go to the school board, which will discs the book challenge at s Monday meetg agenda and vote on a cisn on Tallahassee mom who submted the challenge, Katie Lyons, said her dghter, then a send grar at a lol elementary school, brought home the children's book about Kg, a tennis legend who is gay — and also brought qutns to her mother about a page regardg Kg's sexual orientatn.
“It is important that be ma clear that this book was challenged not bee the book mentns Billie Jean Kg is gay, ” Lyons told the school board at a meetg last week. Regardls of orientatn, homosexual or heterosexual, the topic of sexual orientatn is not age-appropriate or velopmentally-appropriate for elementary stunts. "I object to material that discs beg gay and what means to be gay, " wrote page drawg the challenge reads: "Around this time, I realized I was gay.
FOC ON ‘PARENTAL RIGHTS’ CHIPS AWAY AT GAY RIGHTS
Beg gay means that if you're a girl, you love and have romantic feelgs for other girls — and if you're a boy, you love and have romantic feelgs for other boys.