Speak up by gog silent: learn more about how Day of Silence on April 10 supports lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer youth the U.S.
Contents:
- L.A.'S TWO OPENLY GAY CY COUNCILMEN GAVE INCREDIBLE SPEECH ON ORLANDO TODAY
- THE GAY MOMENT
- ESPN’S TAK MOMENT OF SILENCE PROTT OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’
L.A.'S TWO OPENLY GAY CY COUNCILMEN GAVE INCREDIBLE SPEECH ON ORLANDO TODAY
Two of ESPN’s broadsters, durg their verage of the NCAA Women’s Basketball tournament Friday, took a moment of silence solidary wh their fellow LGBTQIA+ Disney employe prottg Florida’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn. Disney and Chapek have been mired ntroversy surroundg Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill for several weeks.
Today durg the Women's NCAA Tournament, ESPN's Carolyn Peck and Courtney Lyle remaed silent for two mut opposn of Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill.
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THE GAY MOMENT
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The two uncilmembers, who, along wh Cy Controller Ron Galper, are the only openly gay elected officials the Cy of Los Angel, rallied the LGBT muny to actn on gun ntrol, pledgg that if the NRA and the gun lobby didn't already know that the LGBT muny was g for them, "they've got another thg g. I don't know if the killer was motivated by allegiance to ISIS, an anizatn which beheads gays and lbians, which throws them om rooftops of all tall buildgs, which buri them the ground and then ston them. I don't know if he was animated by by anti-gay anim or if he was perhaps stgglg wh his own sexual inty.
Many were gay, lbian or transgenr, but they were all someone's son, dghter, mother, nt uncle father or iend. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department had prevly rpond to the 2016 mass shootg at Pulse, a popular gay nightclub Orlando, where 49 people were killed.
ESPN’S TAK MOMENT OF SILENCE PROTT OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’
Ron DeSantis champned and later signed a bill this year that earned the nickname “Don’t Say Gay, ” bee banned some public school teachers om discsg sexualy or genr inty wh elementary school stunts.
Club Q was Colorado Sprgs’ only remag gay bar at the time of Flanery’s piece. And gay activist Torie Osborne looked at those fac and then up and beyond them, to the field of bodi stretched out down the Mall.