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. Even as is poised to bee law, young people the state won’t let the legislatn pass silently.
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- RON “DON’T SAY GAY” DESANTIS PLOTS MAJOR SHAKP AMID REPORTS HIS CRAPPY MPAIGN IS “ON THE BRK”
- WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
- GEN Z WON’T STAY QUIET ON FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
- PLEASE SAY GAY. AND TEACH CHILDREN TO RPECT EACH OTHER'S DIFFERENC | OPN
- LET’S SAY GAY
- NFL COACH COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
- WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS
- WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
- STRICTLY LEGAL: SU OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FAILS
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
- FLORIDA HOE PASS NTROVERSIAL MEASURE DUBBED THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BY CRICS
- PLEASE, SAY GAY
- BILLBOARDS ACROSS FLORIDA ENURAGE PEOPLE TO 'SAY GAY'
- AS 'DON'T SAY GAY' AND SIAR BILLS TAKE HOLD, LGBTQ YOUTHS FEEL THEY'RE 'GETTG CSHED'
RON “DON’T SAY GAY” DESANTIS PLOTS MAJOR SHAKP AMID REPORTS HIS CRAPPY MPAIGN IS “ON THE BRK”
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Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis is startg to acknowledge realy: his printial n is a disaster. He and his wife both released vilently homophobic ads over nsecutive weeks, earng wispread nmnatn, even om gay Republins, cludg Gee Santos and ex-Tmp official Richard Grenell.
WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
In their qut to bee the party of “parental rights,” Republins Florida and other stat are attemptg to muzzle discsn of gay and civil rights school. * please say gay *
) And Kate McKnon, playg a so-lled Weird Barbie who experienced an extreme haircut and makeover at the hands of an experimental child, never actually answers the qutn anybody would have upon seeg her gay-ass haircut and knowg the actor’s sexualy.
GEN Z WON’T STAY QUIET ON FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
Inially, there were accatns that Ziegler, as a gay Democrat, was biased toward Bin, but now some Republins say his inty shows he's fair and reliable sayg the IRS was hampered the vtigatn. * please say gay *
Yet even if no one says , Weird Barbie is clearly Gay Barbie. Today, we have an analysis of a piece of tn legislatn Florida that crics have referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” we have news of our own: We’re makg some chang to the Edutn Briefg. See below for Asenc-Rhe/Tampa Bay Tim, via Associated PrsA close read of ‘Don’t Say Gay’Gov.
Ron DeSantis of Florida is expected to sign Hoe Bill 1557, a proposed law that supporters ll the “Parental Rights Edutn” bill and opponents refer to as the “Don’t Say Gay” lleague Dana Goldste has done a close readg of the bill self, which is about much more than gay rights. Sentence has earned the bill the “Don’t Say Gay” nickname:L 97-101: Classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty may not occur krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state impact is clear enough: Instctn on genr and sexualy would be nstraed all gras.
PLEASE SAY GAY. AND TEACH CHILDREN TO RPECT EACH OTHER'S DIFFERENC | OPN
Jacksonville Jaguars ach Kev Maxen, who joed the team last year, me out publicly as gay an terview wh Outsports published on Thursday, beg the first ach a U.S. men’s profsnal league to do so" emprop="scriptn * please say gay *
That uld disurage a teacher om speakg about gay fai wh the whole class, even if some stunts have gay bill also targets mental health and unselg servic — a place where stunts often have difficult nversatns about genr inty and sexualy, pecially if they stggle to talk about those nversatns at as Florida revis s school unselg standards, adopted 2010, which affirm genr and sexual diversy unselg. 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.
LET’S SAY GAY
Don't Say Gay laws stigmatize queer fai, rtigmatiz queer kids, and nflat “trans people exist” wh “you mt go be trans.” * please say gay *
We never spoke aga even as we ntued to progrs through the same schools high school, had bee obv that Marty was gay, and his effemate characteristics exiled him to pariah stat. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTPamela Bons /Visum, via RxLast month, the new print of the advocy group Human Rights Campaign, Kelley Robson, posted a six-and-a-half-mute vio to troduce herself and ame the missn of her anizatn, which was found 40 years ago by the gay activist Steve Enan to help fund polil mpaigns for pro-gay-rights ndidat. ”Not once, however, did she say the word “gay” or “lbian” or “bisexual.
The word “gay” is creasgly beg substuted by “queer” or, more broadly, “L.
NFL COACH COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
The word “queer” is climbg equency and n be ed terchangeably wh “gay, ” which self not so long ago replaced the dour and fatly judgy “homosexual.
WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS
In the same perds, e of “gay” has fallen om 2, 228 to 1, 531 — still more monly ed, but the directn of the evolutn is impossible to miss. ’ media, treat the word ‘lbian’ like ’s the plague, ” noted Julia Diana Robertson the lbian publitn The Velvet ’s be clear: Many lbians and gay people are fe wh this shift.
WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
For one thg, “gay” and “queer” are not synonymo, as they are creasgly treated, particularly among Gen Zers and lennials. Q., ” which sometim clus addnal symbols and letters, reprents so many inti unrelated to sexual orientatn that gays and lbians n feel crowd week on “CBS News Sunday Morng, ” the wrer David Sedaris said he was done “fightg the word ‘queer.
“Gay” has a clear, specific meang that appli to both men and women: “homosexual, ” which is the first entry most dictnari.
STRICTLY LEGAL: SU OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FAILS
” Another fn refers not only to gay people but also to “a person whose sexual orientatn or genr inty falls outsi the heterosexual mastream or the genr bary, ” acrdg to That uld mean “transgenr, ” “genr ntral, ” “nonbary, ” “agenr, ” “pangenr, ” “genrqueer, ” “misexual, ” “asexual, ” “two spir, ” “third genr” or all, none or some batn of the above. Queer theory is about liberately breakg down normative tegori around genr and sex, particularly bary on like men and women, straight and gay.
Sayg you’re queer uld mean you’re gay; uld mean you’re straight; uld mean you’re uncid about your genr or that you prefer not to say.
Sayg you’re queer uld mean as ltle as havg kissed another girl your sophomore year at llege.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
It uld mean you valiantly plowed through the prose of Judh Butler a urse on queerns the Elizabethan the broad spectm of possibily, ’s no surprise that many people — gay or straight — have no ia what means when someone self-intifi as this is important: Not all gay people see themselv as queer. Many lbian and gay people fe themselv terms of sexual orientatn, not genr.
There are gay men, for example, who grew up sperately needg reassurance that they were jt as much a boy as any hypermanly heterosexual. Whereas homosexualy is a sexual orientatn one nnot choose, queerns is somethg one n, acrdg to Jam Kirchick, the thor of “Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton.
FLORIDA HOE PASS NTROVERSIAL MEASURE DUBBED THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BY CRICS
” Queerns, he argu, is a fashn and a polil statement that not all gay people subscribe to. “Whereas the arc of the gay rights movement, and the dividual liv of most gay people, has been a stggle agast margaly. ”Many gay people simply prefer the word “gay.
” “Gay” has long been a generally posive term.
PLEASE, SAY GAY
The send fn for “gay” most dictnari is somethg along the l of “happy, ” “lighthearted” and “reee.
”What I hear most often om gay and lbian iends regardg the word “queer” is somethg along the l of what Sedaris poted out: “Nobody nsulted me! In the se of “queer, ” ’s pecially worrisome and not only bee superses wily accepted and unrstood terms but also bee the gay rights movement’s succs have historilly hged on efforts at people, lbians and bisexuals fought for a long time to be open and clear about who they are.
” A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 24 of the New York edn wh the headle: Why the Word ‘Gay’ Is Fallg Out of Fashn. Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, beme the first male ach the NFL — and Amerin men's profsnal sports general — to publicly e out as gay.
BILLBOARDS ACROSS FLORIDA ENURAGE PEOPLE TO 'SAY GAY'
'I am eply gay': Kate McKnon mocks Florida's ntroversial bill. In their qut to bee the party of “parental rights, ” Republins Florida and other stat are attemptg to muzzle discsn of gay and civil rights school. Ron DeSantis signed – tled “Parental Rights Edutn” – has been dubbed by crics the “Don’t Say Gay” bill bee seeks to ban discsn of genr and sexualy issu wh younger stunts.
AS 'DON'T SAY GAY' AND SIAR BILLS TAKE HOLD, LGBTQ YOUTHS FEEL THEY'RE 'GETTG CSHED'
What has been dubbed by crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill was the subject of an tense opposn mpaign. Earlier this month, DeSantis grew agated at the Florida Strawberry Ftival when a reporter asked him about the phrase – “Don’t Say Gay” – that crics have applied to the bill.
Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat. “People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda.