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• FLORIDA’S LGBTQ ADVOT ARE RALLYG TO SUPPORT YOUNG PEOPLE LIGHT OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’
• FLORIDA’S LGBTQ ADVOT ARE RALLYG TO SUPPORT YOUNG PEOPLE LIGHT OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’
• MOVG TO GAY FLORIDA? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON!

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

From major statewi anizatns to lol efforts, the groups strive to improve the liv of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals the Sunshe State. 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.

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.

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

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 urt found 303’s ADF’s rightwg advocy extends further, however, as the anizatn has donated to more than a dozen anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortn found that the ADF donated $85, 000 to the Child and Parental Rights Campaign, a group which, acrdg to a Poli report, helped Florida Republins shape the state’s so-lled “don’t say gay” law, which prohibs discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty group has also sued two school districts Florida over issu relatg to the rights of trans youth. The missn of the Orlando Youth Alliance is to provi a non-exploative, safe, dg and alhol ee, social outlet for youth ag 13 to 24 who are grapplg wh gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenred and qutng issu.

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

Its missn is to foster hope, digny and self-rpect lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and all youth (LGBT+) and to provi them an opportuny to grow up a safe, healthy and supportive environment. Together, the anizatns form the largt civil rights anizatn dited to securg full equaly for Florida’s lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muny.

As the largt natnal lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer civil rights anizatn, HRC envisns a world where LGBTQ people are ensured of their basic equal rights, and n be open, hont and safe at home, at work and the muny. The Center promot the well-beg of the Central Florida Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr muni.

ACLU Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Rights Project.