As Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' law tak effect, schools roll out LGBTQ rtrictns

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• AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
• PRI GAY RABOW IMAG
• GAY RABOW WALLPAPERS
• THE GAY RABOW IS A MARK OF THE BEAST
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• TROUBLE WH GAY CHARACTERS

AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS

As Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn law — or what crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law — go to effect Friday, some of the state’s public school districts have begun rollg out new polici to lim LGBTQ issu and inti om beg discsed the Tuday night, the Leon County School Board unanimoly approved s “LGBTQ Inclive School Gui, ” which clus a provisn to alert parents if a stunt who is “open about their genr inty” is their child’s physil tn class or wh them on an overnight school trip.

Clifford / AP fileThe so-lled Don’t Say Gay law, HB 1557, bans “stctn” about sexual orientatn or genr inty “ krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards.

PRI GAY RABOW IMAG

” A provisn the law also requir school staff members to alert parents about “cril cisns affectg a stunt’s mental, emotnal, or physil health or well-beg, ” which many advot have terpreted as a way to force tors to out their gay or trans stunts.

GAY RABOW WALLPAPERS

They have also ntend that will not prohib teachers and stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 attack at the Pulse gay nightclub crics and legal experts have said the broad language of the law uld open school districts and teachers to lawsus om parents who believe any nversatn about LGBTQ people or issu is “not age appropriate.

THE GAY RABOW IS A MARK OF THE BEAST

Carlos Smh, a Democrat who is gay and has been an outspoken cric of the new law, said he was “not surprised” that schools the state were announcg the polici and guil. “What’s happeng right now — wh the censorship of rabow flags and school districts preparg to basilly ph LGBTQ stunts and teachers to the closet — is exactly what we said would happen wh the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law. "Members and supporters of the LGBTQ muny at the "Say Gay Anyway" rally Miami Beach, Fla., on March 13.

Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty Imag fileFive other stat — all of them the South — have enacted laws that lim stctn or discsns about LGBTQ people or issu school, and at least 32 others have proposed such measur this year, acrdg to acrdg to the Movement Advancement Project, an LGBTQ thk tank that has been trackg the strsed that the polici will have nsequenc for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer stunts, potg to the disproportnately high rat of suici attempts among the untry’s LGBTQ youths. ”In Palm Beach County, Woods, who is gay, said that after they received the qutnnaire om school officials to flag urse material or books wh LGBTQ referenc, many of his lleagu are nervo they’ll be reprimand if they miss somethg.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

"The rabow ia, I nnot say that was Gilbert's ia, " says Lynn Segerblom, now a Los Angel-area rint, who was, wh Baker, chair of the ratns mtee for the 1978 Gay Freedom Day celebratn. But he wasn't the gay Betsy Ross. "Artie began to prs me to e up wh a new symbol for what he had lled 'the dawn of a new gay nscns and eedom, '" Baker wr.

I thought a gay natn should have a flag too, to proclaim s own ia of power. "Later that week, while he and Jon were dancg to a band at the Cow Palace, Baker was imprsed wh the diversy of the crowd: hippi, bikers, punks, gay mcle boys, butch lbians. Another is that creatg them was an arduo task -- but a labor of work took place at what was then the Gay Communy Center at 330 Grove San Francis.

TROUBLE WH GAY CHARACTERS

She also put stars on one of the flags, makg a gay "stars and strip, " g wood blocks to prt the the dyeg, she not, you uldn't jt leave the fabric the vat; you had to be movg around. Segerblom took her life a different directn, movg to Los Angel to pursue her dream of an actg reer, then workg a bs that created murals and and others also note that jt a few months after Gay Freedom Day of 1978, the San Francis gay muny had more than flags to ncern them-- November of that year, Milk, the cy's first out elected official, and Mayor Gee Mosne were shot to ath Cy Hall by Dan Whe, a disgntled former member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors, where he served wh Milk. "The flags were a rponse to the hatred of Ana Bryant and John Briggs, " referrg to the sger who beme an antigay activist and the man who sponsored a ballot proposn that sought to keep gays and lbians om teachg California public schools.

A gay pri rabow flag fli along wh the US flag. ‘Gay furry hackers’ are targetg US stat for passg anti-trans legislatn. Published: 12:05am, 16 Jul, 2023 Updated: 12:05am, 16 Jul, 2023 A gay pri rabow flag fli along wh the US flag.