LGBTQ Legislatn | California Legislative Lbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgenr and Queer Cc

Contents:

• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

— A Southern California school board has bee the latt proxy for culture wars brewg across the untry after a nservative bloc voted to formally reject state-endorsed curriculum that would have mentned gay rights figure Harvey Milk.

Proponents of the ban say Milk was a sexual predator, referrg to a disputed claim that the gay rights in had an appropriate relatnship wh a mor. Californians will vote on a proposal to amend the state Constutn on the 2024 ballot to reaffirm gay marriage rights — a ut move that amid natnal anxiety after recent lgs by the nservative-leang U.

GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST

Although there is no current threat to the legaly of gay marriage, and Print Bin signed a bill safeguardg last year, the Democratic-domant state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to stead explicly state that marriage is “a fundamental right. Gav Newsom was out of state, Senate lear Toni Atks (D-San Diego) signed bills to law on his behalf as the first out gay actg ernor.

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.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

"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.

After a Southern California school district rejected a state-endorsed social studi curriculum that clus material on gay rights, top state officials are vowg to buy a textbook qutn and distribute to stunts before the new school year. The announcement is the latt dispute between state and lol officials after the Temecula Valley Unified School District’s board voted 3-2 on May 16 to reject the curriculum, wh some board members claimg there was not enough parental volvement the curriculum creatn procs as well as makg ments attackg gay rights activist and polician Harvey Milk. The curriculum – for gras one through five – ntas supplemental rource material for teachers that clus a short bgraphy of Milk, who is believed to be the first openly gay polician elected to public office California 1977.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

The materials scribe his liftyle and his work for gay rights California until his assassatn 1978. Komrosky said June that his statements about Milk “were not based upon him beg a homosexual, but rather based upon him beg an adult havg a sexual relatnship wh a mor.

File Photo by Eric Thayer/UPIJuly 19 (UPI) -- A Southern California school district that failed to adopt a state-endorsed social studi curriculum over mentn of gay rights lear Harvey Milk has been fed $1.

" pli wh the state's 2011 FAIR Edutn Act that amends the California's tn to clu "fair, accurate, clive and rpectful reference" to ntributns by members of the LGBTQ nservative block of board members, cludg Print Joseph Komrosky, object to the textbook over s cln of supplemental material about gay rights advote Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay man elected to office the state and was assassated later on Wednday, Newsom, a Democrat, announced that rponse to the district's failure to adopt the updated social studi curriculum, was vlatn of state law and that California has entered to a ntract to secure the textbooks for s stunts. California legislators, all Democrats, are proud of their succs but say unrsr the hard work that remas their own state and elsewhere, such as handlg the fallout om measur such as Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, which bans some lsons on sexual orientatn and genr inty, or laws other stat limg transgenr stunts’ participatn sports or blockg genr-affirmg medil re for tone was further shroud by the Saturday night shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado, which killed five people and wound many others.

Jared Polis, who jt won a send term, was the first openly gay man elected as a state’s ernor when he won 2018. Meanwhile, the Legislature has not yet reached pary genr or race and ethnicy, acrdg to statistics om the California State Hampshire and Vermont have each had more LGBTQ legislators, acrdg to the stute, but their legislatur are bigger than California’s and so have not reached the 10% 2022 electns are a landspe of firsts for LGBTQ people, cludg Corey Jackson, the California Legislature’s first gay Black man, who noted that Ain Amerins — particularly Black trans people — are pecially margalized.

“It’s hard to feel optimistic as a young queer person wh everythg that’s gog on, ” Perri the newly elected LGBTQ officials are overwhelmgly Democrats, at least one gay Republin — Gee Santos, a supporter of former Print Donald Tmp — won a U.

Hoe seat New York by featg another gay man, a crease LGBTQ lawmakers ntrasts wh efforts some stat led by members of Santos’ party to lim the fluence, visibily and rights of LGBTQ Tennsee, lears of the state’s Republin legislative supermajory said the first bill of the 2023 ssn will seek to ban genr-affirmg re for mors. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage.

Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years 2020, Nevada beme the first state to ensure the right to same-sex marriage s state nstutn.

Last month, the board for the Temecula Valley Unified School District, which has several far-right members, voted 3-2 agast approvg elementary school social studi materials that briefly mentned gay rights activist Harvey Milk.

California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books.

Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years later. Opposn of religly based refals to serve gay and lbian people? Support of homosexualy by US state?

HistoryHomosexual activy California? Homosexual activy California is legal. To officially ban the e of gay panic and transgenr panic fens murr employment discrimatn California?

Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs California? Workers walked out of their Burbank offic to prott the pani lacklter opposn to Florida’s unfivable “don’t say gay, ” law this week, seemed like a hearteng example of California risg to s reputatn as a bean of clivy and actn.

Like many who track extremism, pecially of the relig variety, Laser se the recent wave of anti-gay legislatn as an attack on mocracy. (Judah Joslyn) Addg a relig exemptn for bakers who don’t want to make a ke for a gay weddg was ssert before dner for this tolerant flank.