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JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
Wilton Manors is the hub of the gay muny Greater Fort Lrdale, and is known as a gay man’s paradise. The advisory lists many of the velopments that have ma Florida ls safe beyond the var anti-LGBTQ+ laws that have been enacted, such as laws rtrictg abortn rights and reproductive tn, and the elimatn of Ain-Amerin studi, as well as an crease of homophobic and racial harassment and vlence. In orr to get hard data on how DeSantis’ culture war is impactg LGBTQ+ fai Florida, rearchers at UCLA’s Whe Instute nducted a survey to measure the rponse of LGBTQ+ fai to the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
The report was released last January, and don’t reflect rponse to the latt round of anti-LGBTQ+ laws to e out of Tallahassee — cludg expandg the “Don’t Say Gay” bill to ver all school gras K-12.
Acrdg to the survey, “9 out of 10 (88%) LGBTQ parents are very or somewhat ncerned about the impact that HB 1557 [the “Don’t Say Gay” bill] will have on them and their children, wh one four reportg they have experienced anti-LGBTQ+ harassment sce the law was passed and one five reportg beg ls out their muni sce the law was passed.