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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’
LGBT help is available for those gog through gay-related challeng. Fd out about gay support and support groups for LGBT here. * florida lgbt help *
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. 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.
GAY SUPPORT: WHERE TO FD LGBT HELP AND SUPPORT GROUPS
There are clive spots the sun for LGBTQ travelers throughout Florida, but the gay-iendly statns really roll out the rabow rpet. * florida lgbt help *
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.
AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
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.
‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: FLORIDA SENATE PASS LAW MARGALIZG LGBTQ+ PEOPLE
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.