Officials a Florida cy have nceled a gay pri para and rtricted other pri events to people 21 years and olr. The cisn to change this Saturday’s Prift events Port St. Lucie was ma Wednday. The Pri Alliance of the Treasure Coast says the cisn was ma anticipatn of Republin Gov. Ron DeSantis signg a bill meant to keep children out of drag shows. The Florida Hoe sent DeSantis a bill Wednday that bans children om adult performanc. The proposal is aimed at the ernor’s opposn to drag shows. The legislatn would allow the state to revoke the food and beverage licens of bs that adm children to adult performanc.
Contents:
- LGBTQ+ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL
- LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN
- AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
- TENS OF THOANDS OF LGBTQ+ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL
- ‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS
- GAY PRI PARA NCELED AFTER ANTI-DRAG SHOW LAW PASS
LGBTQ+ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL
The Cy of Venice, Florida, announced this week would create a streamled Co of Conduct clse for those seekg special-event perms the future - a likely rponse to the ntroversial public actns om a recent gay pri ftival. * florida gay pride fiasco *
The Cy of Venice, Florida, announced this week would create a streamled Co of Conduct clse for those seekg special-event perms the future — a likely rponse to the ntroversial public actns om a recent gay pri ftival. This year, the 30-year-old photographer had schled a private event on 10 June at a gym that would once aga clu a drag show and would be open only to adults who had bought tickets of the Protectn of Children law and the appearance of a road sign the nearby Orlando neighborhood of Lake Nona that read “kill all gays” prompted all four drag show performers to ncel their appearanc.
LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN
The driver was part of the Fort Lrdale Gay Men’s Chos, the group's print said. * florida gay pride fiasco *
” Last year, the ernor signed a “don’t say gay” bill that bars stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty to children between krgarten and third gra. Acrdg to Equaly Florida, the state’s premier advocy group for LGBTQ+ rights, the Sunshe state is home to an timated 886, 000 gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and non-bary people 13 years of age or olr. The will clu a Friday night ncert, a para and a Sunday street a siar ve, south Florida’s longt-nng Pri para will be held the Fort Lrdale suburb Wilton Manors on 17 June, and events are planned at the Perez Art Mm Miami and a Fort Lrdale of Florida’s first openly gay lawmakers wel the forthright affirmatn of his muny’s existence and future some of the state’s largt metropolan areas.
The print of the Fort Lrdale Gay Men’s Chos, Jt Knight, said a statement that the group’s “thoughts and prayers are wh those affected by the tragic accint that occurred when the Stonewall Pri Para was jt gettg started. “The Fort Lrdale Gay Men’s Chos is eply sadned by the tragic ath and juri that occurred as a rult of the unfortunate accint at the Stonewall Pri Para.
AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
LGBTQ people are flockg to Florida this weekend to take part Gay Days, Disney's Pri celebratn. * florida gay pride fiasco *
Wilton Manors is a Fort Lrdale suburb that bills self as havg a “strong gay prence, ” acrdg to the cy’s webse, embracg s “reputatn as a statn for the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny. ”The pickup driver and the two men he stck were all part of the Fort Lrdale Gay Men’s Chos, a tightkn group that is now mourng. ” Trantalis, the cy’s first openly gay mayor, said that as a wns to “the horrifyg events, ” he had “strong ncerns about what transpired — ncerns for the safety of my muny.
The driver has been operative wh vtigators, the agency said, and a DUI tt at the scene showed no signs of Fort Lrdale Gay Men’s Chos said a statement Sunday that s members were “eply sadned by the tragic ath and juri that occurred as a rult of an unfortunate accint at the start of the Stonewall Pri Para. -- Tens of thoands of LGBTQ+ people are flockg to central Florida this weekend to go on theme park ris, mgle wh stumed performers, dance at all-night parti and lounge poolsi at hotels durg Gay Days, a s-long though Gov.
Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers have champned a slew of anti-LGBTQ+ laws — spurrg the most proment gay rights group the U.
TENS OF THOANDS OF LGBTQ+ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL
The pany’s tone af mishandlg of Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill has revealed a long-gtatg nflict * florida gay pride fiasco *
And other civil rights anizatns to issue warngs the Sunshe State may no longer be safe — Gay Days anizers are still enuragg visors om around the world to e to one of Florida's largt gay and lbian say a large turnout will send a msage that LGBTQ+ people are not gog away Florida, which is ntually one of the most popular stat for tourists to vis. If the hoped-for 150, 000 or more visors e to the half-week of pool parti, drag bgo and thrill ris at Orlando's theme parks and hotels, then “that's the pot, ” said Joseph Clark, CEO of Gay Days Inc. Gay Days is a bon 's not lost on the anizers that the highlight of the weekend will be a Saturday meetup of LGBTQ+ visors at the Magic Kgdom at Walt Disney World, where the first Gay Days started as a sgle-day celebratn 1991.
‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS
The driver and the victims were a part of the Fort Lrdale Gay Men’s Chos fay. * florida gay pride fiasco *
Currently, Disney is embroiled a legal fight wh DeSantis over the ernor and Republin lawmakers' takeover of Disney World's erng district — after Disney officials publicly opposed legislatn that crics have dubbed “Don't Say Gay. — recently issued a travel and relotn warng for the state, jog the NAACP, the League of Uned Lat Amerin Cizens, the Florida Immigrant Coaln and Equaly the LGBTQ+ advocy group said wasn’t llg for a boytt of all travel to Florida, said wanted to highlight new laws passed by the Republin-ntrolled Florida Legislature that they said are hostile to the LGBTQ+ muny and rtrict abortn accs, as well as make the state unsafe for many by allowg people to rry ncealed weapons whout a participants the Pri Cup athletic petns at Gay Days cid not to e, forcg the ncellatn of dodgeball and flag football tournaments. But the multi-sport petn that is held annually at Gay Days will still have beach volleyball, golf, pickleball and before the travel advisori were issued, some regular Florida visors were rensirg their plans.
“It’s ls a csa and more like, ‘I’m not gog to spend my money where bad thgs are gog on, ’” Hayn the anizers of Gay Days and their supporters say that Orlando is as gay-iendly a cy as they e, earng a perfect sre on the Human Rights Campaign x, which measur how clive ci are of LGBTQ+ rints and visors. “We live a bubble here Orlando, where even wh the chaos Florida, we feel safe here, ” said Jeremy Williams, edor--chief of Watermark Publishg Group Inc., a Florida-based media pany that is one of the sponsors of Gay Days has survived past challeng, cludg the early years when Disney posted signs at the Magic Kgdom's entrance warng visors there was a large gatherg of gays and lbians and offerg pass to other parks for guts who might be offend.
GAY PRI PARA NCELED AFTER ANTI-DRAG SHOW LAW PASS
It was St. Petersburg’s first LGBTQ Pri march sce the onslght of the Covid-19 panmic, and jt three months after Florida’s ernor signed what crics ll the “Don’t Say Gay” law. * florida gay pride fiasco *
Over the last three s, though, the theme parks and rorts have thrown down the wele mats as Gay Days has bee a profable bounce between the sprg break and out-of-school summer crowds. Durg Gay Days the 1990s, hundreds of anti-abortn activists wh Operatn Rcue protted outsi Walt Disney World, and the Southern Baptist Conventn ced the gatherg llg for a boytt of all thgs Disney. Some Christian groups tried to buy air time durg Gay Days the late 1990s to prsure people to renounce their sexual orientatn, but mastream TV statns Orlando rejected the Clark, the CEO of the Gay Days bs, had his wish, DeSantis would accept an open vatn to see one of the drag shows durg this year's ftivi.
The father, Francis Deliu of Wt Palm Beach, Fla., claimed a plat filed earlier this month that his 12-year-old son’s puter science teacher, Rachel Raos, tried to “doctrate” her stunts at Emerald Cove Middle School by displayg LGBTQ pri flags and promotg “homosexual liftyl. Deliu the lawsu nmned Raos’s actns, which he said do not align wh his fay’s Christian-Orthodox fah, which nsirs homosexualy to be a s. “I felt that was improper bee I don’t send my child to that school to be tght homosexualy and tght gay pri, ” Deliu told NBC-affiliate WPTV Wt Palm Beach this week.