Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill overme s fal legislative hurdle on Tuday, when the state Senate voted to pass the measure. Even as is poised to bee law, young people the state won’t let the legislatn pass silently.
Contents:
- REPUBLINS AIM TO PASS NATNAL ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW
- GEN Z WON’T STAY QUIET ON FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
- ACTIVISTS SLAM 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL'S PROGRS FLORIDA LEGISLATURE
- HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
- FORMER REPUBLIN NGRSMAN SAYS HE’S GAY, REGRETS ANTI-GAY STANC
- GAY RIGHTS ADVANCED SIGNIFINTLY THE LAST 25 YEARS — NO THANKS TO CONGRS
- US ELECTS FIRST TRANS STATE SENATOR AND FIRST BLACK GAY NGRSMAN
REPUBLINS AIM TO PASS NATNAL ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW
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GEN Z WON’T STAY QUIET ON FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
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Capol to make their stori of personal transformatn known – fdg their way out of homosexualy and transgenrism – and to urge Congrs not to cut off accs to the relig and personal unselg that often plays a role healg childhood sexual and emotnal abe and trma which led to embracg those liftyl. “Homosexualy don’t have to last a lifetime, ” clared Greg Qulan of New Jersey.
ACTIVISTS SLAM 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL'S PROGRS FLORIDA LEGISLATURE
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Earlier this year Florida’s ernor, Ron DeSantis, signed a law that barred schools om teachg about sexual orientatn or genr inty until third gra, “or a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards” than a dozen stat troduced so-lled “don’t say gay” bills this year. Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill overme s fal legislative hurdle on Tuday, when the state Senate voted to pass the measure. Stunts across the state have walked out of their classrooms prott of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill this month.
HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
Larks on Monday led a walkout of more than 500 stunts at Wter Park High School, many of whom chanted, “We say gay!
Stars such as Ariana Gran have reposted vios om stunt-led ralli agast the “Don’t Say Gay” bill to show their support. Joshua Rh, who played Disney Channel’s first out gay character on the seri “Andi Mack” and me out as bisexual 2019, said that while he was “heartened” to hear Chapek say the pany will evaluate s donatns, “the facts are clear: queer kids Ameri are unr attack by a far-right agenda fund partly through rporate donatns. Javi Gomez, a senr at Miami’s iPrep Amy, ttified agast the “Don’t Say Gay” measure Tallahassee last month.
In earlier appearanc before Congrs, high school stunt CJ Waln told the Miami Herald, he felt as though lawmakers were ignorg him and his fellow stunt speakers who’d asked them to rensir the “Don’t Say Gay” bills, but he won’t stop speakg out. Jack Petocz, a stunt activist Florida, led his peers on a school walkout last week prott of what many ll the “Don’t Say Gay" bill, which was passed by the state legislature on Florida bill would lim what tors the state n teach about sexual orientatn and genr inty si some this legislatn, the lsons "may not occur krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards.
FORMER REPUBLIN NGRSMAN SAYS HE’S GAY, REGRETS ANTI-GAY STANC
"Jack Petocz led his peers on a stunt walkout agast the "Don't Say Gay" bill VidalWhat started as a peaceful way for young people to rally agast the bill turned to a school spensn for Petocz. DeSantis to have a meetg wh me before he signs this to law to hear a firsthand acunt of how this bill will affect my muny, " Petocz Petocz led his peers on a stunt walkout agast the "Don't Say Gay" bill VidalRep. "But for many of the stunts, polil measur like the are personal attacks, acrdg to Sarah Kate Ellis, the print and CEO of the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD).
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Lee tried and failed to attach chang to the bill that he said would more strongly protect relig Colls phed back, notg that the bill had received strong backg om fah-based groups, cludg the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, which historilly has aggrsively opposed gay rights. Others are followg Florida’s lead – which passed a bill crics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” – and are eyeg rtrictns on teachg LGBTQ topics schools. They were stunned at how quickly the culture had shifted support of gay marriage and were left to regroup.
GAY RIGHTS ADVANCED SIGNIFINTLY THE LAST 25 YEARS — NO THANKS TO CONGRS
“I feel like the whole gay marriage bate was a sham, ” Terry Schillg, print of the right-wg Amerin Prcipl Project, said an terview wh CNN. “When we were batg gay marriage as a untry, the opponents of gay marriage were sentially sayg this is gog to lead to the sexualizatn of children.
“Essentially we went om Obergefell and gay marriage to now sex chang for gay mors, hormone treatments, puberty blockers.
US ELECTS FIRST TRANS STATE SENATOR AND FIRST BLACK GAY NGRSMAN
” Siarly, Florida is facg a lawsu over s law – lled the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by crics – that rtricts stctn related to certa LGBTQ topics. Hardg noted that he is a lennial who grew up wh gay iends and attend llege Miami, addg, “It’s not like I’m this narrow-md right-wger. Still, he add: “The gay muny hontly has done a disservice by beg lumped wh this trans and genr movement bee ’s not their fight.
Activists who long cried gay rights, often assailg them as a threat to nservative fay valu and procreatn, said they’ve found new alli, particularly their efforts to lim medil re and athletic opportuni for transgenr youth.
In the 1970s, Christian sger and anti-gay activist Ana Bryant lnched the “Save Our Children” mpaign to fight back agast a lol Da County, Florida, ordance that banned discrimatn based on sexual orientatn hog and employment. The supreme urt’s landmark abortn lg immediately wiped away abortn rights for lns of Amerins, but tucked away Clarence Thomas’s ncurrg opn on the se was another threat: to the rights of LGBTQ+ people across the his opn, wrten to acpany the Roe v Wa cisn, Thomas, part of the ntrollg bal of rightwg jtic, suggted that the urt should “rensir” the right to same-sex relatnships and same-sex marriage, which was legalized natnwi the face of fears that the urt will now lead a charge agast LGBTQ+ rights – and growg far-right vlence agast LGBTQ+ targets – a rerd number of LGBTQ+ ndidat are nng for US Congrs least 101 LGBTQ+ people ran for US Congrs 2022, acrdg to LGBTQ Victory Fund, a natnal anizatn dited to electg openly LGBTQ+ people to all levels of 57 ndidat are still their rac, wh advot hopg greater reprentatn uld brg tangible change Washgton, after a year when gay and trans people have been creasgly persecuted by rightwg policians the McLeod-Skner is one of the LGBTQ+ ndidat hopg to make a difference the US Hoe of Reprentativ.