LGBTQ parents thk of movg om Florida, cg 'Don't Say Gay' law | WUSF Public Media

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• MORE THAN HALF OF QUEER FLORIDA PARENTS HAVE NSIRED FLEEG THE STATE THE WAKE OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY,’ STUDY FDS
• GAY FLORIDIANS ARE LEAVG DROV, SAYS PRI ORGANIZER
• SOME FLORIDA LGBTQ+ FAI CONSIRG LEAVG STATE OVER ‘DON'T SAY GAY' LAW: SURVEY
• MOVG TO GAY FLORIDA? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON!
• LGBT+ PEOPLE ARE FLEEG FLORIDA ‘MASS MIGRATN’ OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW
• AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
• OVER HALF OF LGBTQ PARENTS SURVEYED FLORIDA NSIRED LEAVG STATE OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW

MORE THAN HALF OF QUEER FLORIDA PARENTS HAVE NSIRED FLEEG THE STATE THE WAKE OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY,’ STUDY FDS

A third would make a third-gree felony to provi medil terventns to treat children wh genr dysphoria three passed the Hoe on same day, the Florida Board of Edutn approved a ban on teachg about sexual orientatn and genr inty all gras, expandg the Parental Rights Edutn law that crics have lled the Don’t Say Gay Ron DeSantis, who supports the iativ, along wh Republin lawmakers, say they’re phg the bills to protect rints who are packg their bags say they no longer feel safe livg a state wh legislatn that they believe will harm members of their muny, particularly transgenr kids.

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. ” 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.

GAY FLORIDIANS ARE LEAVG DROV, SAYS PRI ORGANIZER

More than half of LGBTQ parents Florida are nsirg movg their fai to another state over ncerns that a new Florida tn law – known to s crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law – stigmatiz LGBTQ inti and creat a hostile learng environment for LGBTQ children or stunts wh LGBTQ fay members. LGBTQ parents surveyed by the group voiced a variety of ncerns about the “Don’t Say Gay” law’s expected impact on their children, cludg that would rtrict them om speakg eely about their fai, negatively impact their sense of legimacy and enurage a hostile school climate. For some LGBTQ parents, the passage of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law has motivated them to engage more directly muny activism; nearly 20 percent said they participated a monstratn to prott the legislatn over the past 6 months.

The survey of 113 queer parents, nducted by Clark Universy and the Williams Instute at the UCLA School of Law, examed the effects of the Parental Rights Edutn law — the one opponents have slammed as the “Don’t Say Gay” law. “The Don’t Say Gay bill claims to be for parent rights, but my rights have been taken away sce s passage, ” said one parent surveyed the Clark Univ.

The survey found 56% of LGBTQ parents were nsirg leavg Florida the wake of the "Don't Say Gay" law — and 17% have already taken steps to move.

SOME FLORIDA LGBTQ+ FAI CONSIRG LEAVG STATE OVER ‘DON'T SAY GAY' LAW: SURVEY

Acrdg to Plantatn High School sophomore Eric Franzbl, some of his teachers fear they n the risk of losg their jobs if they say the wrong thg, bee of the rtrictns passed by state officials. Those numbers are the stark fdgs om a study on the effects of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law jt released by the Williams Instute at the Universy of California, Los Angel School of Law.

What she means by ltle thgs beg big thgs: Nobl’ son, who’s turng 19 this year, told her fifth gra that he didn’t want to go back to school bee he was beg bullied for beg gay. Jen Cos, platiff a lawsu agast the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn, is faiar wh the cycl of anger, disbelief, worry and horror that such legislatn and other efforts agast LGBTQ+ youth Florida have ed her — so she n only image how much more difficult those feelgs are for LGBTQ+ parents, cludg some of her own iends. “It’s even harr for them bee of their inti, ” said Cos, who worri about the future of her children’s liv Florida — pecially her nonbary teenager Saffy, and her 9-year-old gay son Milo.

MOVG TO GAY FLORIDA? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON!

More than one-fifth — 22 percent — of LGBTQ+ parents surveyed by the Williams Instute last year had joed a prott agast the “Don’t Say Gay'' bill, and a few said that they had bee tentnally more out rponse to the legislatn, strsg the need to “rist” by hangg up flags at home or puttg stickers on their r. Recent protts have foced on polici beyond Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law — particularly on the state’s board of medice movg to rtrict genr-affirmg re for transgenr youth. Ls than a year later, sprg 2022, the Florida Legislature enacted two laws — the Individual Freedom Act, more monly known as the Stop Wrongs Agast our Kids and Employe (WOKE) Act, and the Parental Rights Edutn Act, dubbed by crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill that regulat how race, sexual orientatn, and genr inty n be discsed schools, among other thgs.

Earlier:Organizatns, tn advot nounce so-lled ‘Stop WOKE, ’ ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bills “That Parental Rights bill was the most dishearteng bee we’re parents, too, ” Price said. ” Sarasota fay ey new untry for dghterA Sarasota mother named Amanda, who asked that her last name not be ed bee of fears for her fay's safety had an klg early on that her elst dghter was gay. After her 8-year-old dghter intified as gay to her last year, the mother began to qutn whether Sarasota or Florida as a whole were the bt plac for her fay.

ViewPe View class print says school seeks to censor graduatn speech over so-lled 'Don't Say Gay' lawThe uple eventually narrowed down their relotn optns to Canada, where they plan to move to wh the next year. To help queer folx who are nsirg movg to Gay Florida, we have put together this gui om experts on the ground, nsirg the pros and ns of life here, discsg LGBT rights Florida and whether Florida embrac our muny. The Florida Legislative Invtigatn Commtee ma an effort to drive out LGBTQ stunts om schools the 1950s and 1960s by nmng gay teachers and stroyg their reers.

LGBT+ PEOPLE ARE FLEEG FLORIDA ‘MASS MIGRATN’ OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW

More recently, Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law says public school teachers may not stct on sexual orientatn or genr inty gras krgarten through third gra, which has fuelled anti-LGBTQ hate. To rce the strs of your relotn, we remend engagg a gay realtor Florida early the procs to help you fd your new perfect home there the most gay-iendly areas. South Florida lotns wh vibrant LGBT nightlife scen and tablishments that warmly wele gay tourists should be expected to have the hight levels of tolerance.

Don’t fet Orlando’s storied gay clubs, which provi a variety of experienc, om timate div to massive clubs wh lots of entertament and dancg. The largt gay archive and library  the untry is the Stonewall Natnal Mm & Archiv, regnized as Florida’s LGBTQ muny’s Smhsonian sce s ceptn 1974. The “don’t speak gay” bill, which was passed recently by the state Senate and hasn’t yet been signed to law by the Governor, has drawn attentn to Florida.

The “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which prohibs the discsn of genr inty and sexual orientatn public schools, was recently signed by Governor Ron DeSantis. They are hopg that spe the opposn to the measure, tourists would ntue to patronize the bed-and-breakfasts, pubs, cultural stutns, and rtrants that wele gays.

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

Their fundamental objective is to guarantee that everyone, whether gay or straight, bisexual or transgenr, has accs to the same civil liberti as everyone else.

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OVER HALF OF LGBTQ PARENTS SURVEYED FLORIDA NSIRED LEAVG STATE OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW

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