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'IT'S A VERY LONELY WORLD': FOR LGBT NSERVATIV, ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN PROMPTS TRATN, DOUBTS
Gov. Gav Newsom is takg on nservative Temecula Valley Unified school officials over textbooks that discs sla gay activist Harvey Milk. * lgbt conservatism *
Ron DeSantis, a risg star of Ameri’s hard-right nservative movement, signs the so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Florida has gone to war agast Disney World, after Disney publicly opposed the state’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law. Supreme Court affirmed the right of gay and lbian people to marry.
That, you know, children Republin hom are g out as trans, as nonbary, as gay or bisexual or lbian. The “Don’t Say Gay” bill Florida, for example, or the thgs that are gog on Texas — ’s not like all of a sudn this year or last year all the nservative folks ci, “Oh, trans and queer people are terrible, and we mt protect x, y, and z thgs. And then more recently, seems like some of those same forc have glommed on to trans rights and gay rights.
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… I thk that many of the state laws, the “Don’t Say Gay” bill Florida, are vulnerable.
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My inty as a gay man and as a nservatnist are separable parts of who I am, and I’m proud of how the Natnal Wildlife Feratn’s mment to Equy and Jtice all of s forms has grown to what is today. As a gay man, I’ve been given the unique opportuny to unrstand why ’s so important that we fight for the survival and rights of the begs and elements that n’t stand up for themselv.
Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about.
”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978. ” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe. ” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy.