Florida's LGBTQ advot are rallyg to support young people light of 'Don't Say Gay' | CNN

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• FLORIDA’S LGBTQ ADVOT ARE RALLYG TO SUPPORT YOUNG PEOPLE LIGHT OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’
• GAY SUPPORT: WHERE TO FD LGBT HELP AND SUPPORT GROUPS
• AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: FLORIDA SENATE PASS LAW MARGALIZG LGBTQ+ PEOPLE

FLORIDA’S LGBTQ ADVOT ARE RALLYG TO SUPPORT YOUNG PEOPLE LIGHT OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’

This weekend, Javi Gomez is travelg nearly 500 om his native Miami to Florida’s pal Tallahassee to plead his se agast a piece of legislatn LGBTQ advot are llg the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Some exposure to LGBTQ topics – what means to be gay, queer or transgenr, and why ’s wrong to discrimate agast LGBTQ people – might have helped alleviate the pa they flicted, he said.

GAY SUPPORT: WHERE TO FD LGBT HELP AND SUPPORT GROUPS

Many advot have lled Florida home for s: Galv, a cy uncil member North Miami, remembers beg the only gay kid his Miami high school senr class. Schools are already often hostile environments for LGBTQ kids – nearly 33% of LGBTQ stunts ag 13 to 21 said they missed a day of school over the urse of a month bee they felt unsafe or unfortable, and more than 77% said they avoid school functns bee they felt unsafe or unfortable, acrdg to the most recent Natnal School Climate Survey published by the GLSEN (the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network) 2019.

8% of LGBTQ stunts said they heard “gay” ed a negative way, and more than 95% of them heard homophobic slurs while at school. Miami high school stunt Gomez said wasn’t until he found out one of his teachers was gay that he started to experience somethg that felt like nfince. They’ve served learship rol wh those muni for years – Orlando has had Commissner Patty Sheehan, the first out gay elected official central Florida, acrdg to the cy, sce 2000, and Galv has served on North Miami’s cy uncil for almost as long.

He’s the print of his high school Gay Straight Alliance, or GSA, and leads after-school urs on queer history and ballroom culture, semars wh doctors on safe sex, and viewg parti for “Pose” and “Legendary, ” seri that star queer and trans people of lor. The ACLU of Florida recently enjoyed a major victory for LGBT rights by challengg and succeedg overturng the state’s discrimatory law banng gay men and lbians om adoptg. Liggett, an Indiana native, and hband Mar Hernanz, a nurse om Texas, moved to South Florida knowg they’d fd a warm wele om the gay-iendly muny.

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

” DeSantis has riled the LGBTQ muny wh his so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law and what some nsir a polilly-motivated attack on drag queens, transgenr athlet and transn-related medil re for mors. “They say the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill (which bars lsons on genr inty and sexual orientatn K-12 public schools) is about parental rights, but ’s clearly not, ” Liggett said. In May, the gay rights advocy group Equaly Florida joed the NAACP and a Lato civil rights anizatn issug travel advisori for Florida warng potential tourists that recent laws and polici champned by DeSantis and state lawmakers are “openly hostile” toward Ain Amerins, people of lor and LGBTQ+ dividuals.

‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: FLORIDA SENATE PASS LAW MARGALIZG LGBTQ+ PEOPLE

Fort Lrdale Mayor Dean Trantalis, the cy’s first openly gay mayor, knows people who are sayg farewell to Florida once and for all. (AP photo/Eric Gay).

But I’m exced to live a state where people of lor, where Jews, gay people, trans people are valued. Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, qutng/queer, tersex, asexual, etc.

(LGBTQIA+) support n be extremely helpful for people but only if gay people feel fortable enough to get .