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Contents:

• WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
• FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• DON'T SAY GAY
• OPPONENTS CALL IT THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT SAYS.
• WHAT FLORIDA'S "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL COULD MEAN FOR LGBTQ KIDS
• WHAT'S THE SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL THAT ULD IMPACT THE WHOLE UNTRY
• FLORIDA HOE PASS NTROVERSIAL MEASURE DUBBED THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BY CRICS
• WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS
• AFTER PROTTS, DISNEY CEO SPEAKS OUT AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• DESANTIS SIGNS 'DON'T SAY GAY' EXPANSN AND GENR-AFFIRMG RE BAN
• FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLS, EXPLAED
• FLORIDA LAWMAKERS PASS 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• 'DON'T SAY GAY': BIN NOUNC 'HATEFUL' NEW FLORIDA BILL
• FLORIDA SENATE PASS NTROVERSIAL "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL SPE PROTTS
• DISNEY DIDN’T SAY A WORD ABOUT FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, BUT MONEY TALKS
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS
• WHAT'S THE SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL THAT ULD IMPACT THE WHOLE UNTRY
• FLORIDA LAWMAKERS PASS 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

Today, we have an analysis of a piece of tn legislatn Florida that crics have referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” we have news of our own: We’re makg some chang to the Edutn Briefg. See below for Asenc-Rhe/Tampa Bay Tim, via Associated PrsA close read of ‘Don’t Say Gay’Gov.

Ron DeSantis of Florida is expected to sign Hoe Bill 1557, a proposed law that supporters ll the “Parental Rights Edutn” bill and opponents refer to as the “Don’t Say Gay” lleague Dana Goldste has done a close readg of the bill self, which is about much more than gay rights. Sentence has earned the bill the “Don’t Say Gay” nickname:L 97-101: Classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty may not occur krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state impact is clear enough: Instctn on genr and sexualy would be nstraed all gras. That uld disurage a teacher om speakg about gay fai wh the whole class, even if some stunts have gay bill also targets mental health and unselg servic — a place where stunts often have difficult nversatns about genr inty and sexualy, pecially if they stggle to talk about those nversatns at as Florida revis s school unselg standards, adopted 2010, which affirm genr and sexual diversy unselg.

The bill, which some opponents have lled "Don't Say Gay, " was signed by DeSantis on Monday.

FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'

The "Don't Say Gay" moniker om crics of the measure who blast this ia and sist this policy will hurt LGBTQ children.

"Florida's HB 1557, also known as the 'Don't Say Gay' bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed to law, " the statement read. But Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has sudnly sparked a natnal war of recent weeks, lears of global rporatns, edorial boards of major newspapers and Hollywood actors have all weighed on the proposed legislatn, wh some llg “eply disturbg” and others “nonntroversial.

HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

” Conversely, opponents say would unfairly target the LGBTQ muny — particularly gay and trans stunts — and is “pretendg to solve a problem that don’t exist. For starters, cricism that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill do not fact say “gay” anywhere s text is te.

DON'T SAY GAY

The bill, which passed Florida’s Senate last week and the state’s Hoe of Reprentativ Febary, do, however, nta the terms “sexual orientatn” and “genr inty, ” each legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn. “The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ moniker is a moniker about a certa polil amg of this suatn.

”Beyond brandg, a re argument over the bill centers around whether would prohib the “stctn” or “discsn” of sexual bill’s sponsors have emphatilly stated that the bill would not prohib stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 adly attack on the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando. "Don't Say Gay" or "Don't Say Gay or Trans" is a nickname for anti-LGBTQIA+ legislatn the Uned Stat. In Florida, "Don't Say Gay" (aka "Don't Say Gay or Trans") is the nickname origally given to Parental Rights Edutn, anti-LGBTQIA+ legislatn passed by the Florida Legislature 2022, and to subsequent tn bills that would expand upon .

OPPONENTS CALL IT THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT SAYS.

↑ Laviet, Matt: "As Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' law tak effect, schools roll out LGBTQ rtrictns" (2022-06-30).

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTOpponents Call It the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill.

Ron DeSantis of Florida is expected to sign Hoe Bill 1557, which supporters ll the “Parental Rights Edutn” bill, but that opponents refer to as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

WHAT FLORIDA'S "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL COULD MEAN FOR LGBTQ KIDS

” Meanwhile, many nservativ have argued that the bill is limed spe and has been misterpreted by s of that has obscured the text of the bill self, which is plex — if at tim vague — and is about much more than gay rights. Instctn on genr and sexualy would be nstraed all 97-101: Classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty may not occur krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state is the sentence that has earned the bill the “Don’t Say Gay” language is vague and subject to terpretatn.

No “classroom discsn” is a broad phrase, and uld mean that teachers wh a stunt wh gay parents should not talk about those fai wh the entire class.

WHAT'S THE SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL THAT ULD IMPACT THE WHOLE UNTRY

” More about Dana GoldsteA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 13 of the New York edn wh the headle: Crics Call It the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill.

FLORIDA HOE PASS NTROVERSIAL MEASURE DUBBED THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BY CRICS

The proposed law, often referred to by crics as “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn, bans public school districts om “enuragg” classroom discsn of sexual orientatn or genr inty. What is Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill? Demonstrators gather on the steps of the Florida Historic Capol Mm ont of the Florida State Capol March Tallahassee, Fla, prottg what opponents ll the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

Hoe Republins have troduced legislatn that some crics are scribg as a natnal "Don't Say Gay" bill – spired by the ntroversial Florida law that bans stctn on genr inty and sexual orientatn krgarten through third gra class.

WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS

Crics of the measure dubbed the Florida law "Don't Say Gay" and argue that s tent is to margalize LGBTQ people and their fai. A feral 'Don't Say Gay or Trans' bill...

AFTER PROTTS, DISNEY CEO SPEAKS OUT AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

Activist Er Reed, who tracks anti-transgenr legislatn, argu that the parison to a "Don't Say Gay" bill mimiz the potential effects of this proposed legislatn. "Don't Say Gay/Trans was foced on 'classroom stctn' which was bad enough, " she wrote on Twter.

DESANTIS SIGNS 'DON'T SAY GAY' EXPANSN AND GENR-AFFIRMG RE BAN

Carlos Smh speaks agast HB 1577, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by crics, earlier this month Tallahassee, Fla.

Opponents — many of whom have taken to llg the measure the "Don't Say Gay" bill — say will make life harr for LGBTQ youth, who already face a higher rate of bullyg and a higher risk of suici than their straight, cisgenr peers. "As expected, the #DontSayGayBill jt passed the Florida Hoe, but SEVEN Republins crossed party l to vote agast , " Rep.

'I am eply gay': Kate McKnon mocks Florida's ntroversial bill.

FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLS, EXPLAED

In their qut to bee the party of “parental rights, ” Republins Florida and other stat are attemptg to muzzle discsn of gay and civil rights school. Ron DeSantis signed – tled “Parental Rights Edutn” – has been dubbed by crics the “Don’t Say Gay” bill bee seeks to ban discsn of genr and sexualy issu wh younger stunts. What has been dubbed by crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill was the subject of an tense opposn mpaign.

Earlier this month, DeSantis grew agated at the Florida Strawberry Ftival when a reporter asked him about the phrase – “Don’t Say Gay” – that crics have applied to the bill. The so-lled 'Don't Say Gay' bill was passed by Florida's Hoe and Senate and is head to Gov. Ron DeSantis Wednday morng, "to exprs our disappotment and ncern that if the legislatn be law, uld be ed to unfairly target gay, lbian, non-bary and transgenr kids and fai.

FLORIDA LAWMAKERS PASS 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

"The Human Rights Campaign will not accept this money om Disney until we see them build on their public mment and work wh LGBTQ+ advot to ensure that dangero proposals, like Florida's Don't Say Gay or Trans bill, don't bee dangero laws, and if they do, to work to get them off the books, " says Joni Madison, Interim Print of the Human Rights Campaign a statement.

Acrdg to the acuntabily news se Popular Informatn, " the last two years, Disney has donated $197, 162 to members of the Florida legislature that have already voted for the 'Don't Say Gay' legislatn, " cludg to sponsors of the bill, Florida Rep. " On Sunday, before the so-lled "Don't Say Gay" bill passed the state Senate, Siemon posted an impassned vio plea llg for Disney to say the legislatn is wrong. Siemon creds one of his middle school teachers for helpg him unrstand that was OK to be gay.

Siemon implored the pany to stop supportg those policians, endg wh the words, "Disney, please say gay.

'DON'T SAY GAY': BIN NOUNC 'HATEFUL' NEW FLORIDA BILL

Ron DeSantis signed four bills Wednday rtrictg LGBTQ rights, cludg a measure that expands what crics have lled the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law and another that will ban transn-related re for also signed a bill that will bar trans people om g the public facili that align wh their genr inti and another that will rtrict “adult” performanc ont of mors. ”Florida teachers have said they removed books om their classrooms and cid not to form LGBTQ clubs as a rult of the first eratn of the so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law. One teacher, Jenna Barbee, said on social media Saturday that she is beg vtigated by her school and the state’s Edutn Department after showg her fifth gra stunts “Strange World, ” a Disney animated movie featurg an openly gay character.

ET): A prev versn of this article misstated when DeSantis signed the so-lled Don’t Say Gay bill to law.

Crics, who ll the measur Florida’s “don’t say gay” bills, argue the measur are an attempt to weaponize the ia of parental rights to margalize LGBTQ part of the bills generatg the most bate is short: jt 31 words. Carlos Guillermo Smh, D-Orlando, one of the few openly gay members of the Florida Legislature, noted the relevant sectn wh an important njunctn: or. Activists have dubbed the Don't Say Gay bill.

FLORIDA SENATE PASS NTROVERSIAL "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL SPE PROTTS

State laws that ban or nstra the discsn of LGBT life classrooms - sometim lled "no promo homo" laws by crics - are not unmon. Activists have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill and warn will stigmatise LGBT people and s proponents say the legislatn is about protectg parental proposal was troduced the state Hoe of Reprentativ last month. "State laws that ban or nstra the discsn of LGBT life classrooms - sometim referred to as "no promo homo" laws - are not unmon.

DISNEY DIDN’T SAY A WORD ABOUT FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, BUT MONEY TALKS

Several were troduced the 1970s and 1980s, closely rrelated wh anti-gay rights activism at the time, but many have long been repealed.

"The larger issue wh all of this is parents mt have a seat at the table when to what's gog on their schools, " he told reporters on LGBT advot have warned the legislatn will harm the mental health of LGBT youth and unrme their existg protectns unr the law while movg Floridians away om a more clive school ptn, Rory Wa said he found "homophobia was very normalised daily nversatn" durg his school daysMore on this story. The Florida Senate has passed the "Parental Rights Edutn" bill, known by crics as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, spe stnch cricism om Democratic lawmakers and LGBTQ+ advot. A 2019 survey om The Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), emed Florida's school climate "not safe" for LGBTQ+ stunts, due part to a lack of accs to LGBTQ+-clive curriculum and supportive school polici.

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

When the Florida state Senate recently passed what’s e to be known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, the media naturally wanted to know what Disney—one of the state’s largt and, arguably, s most polilly fluential employers—thought about .

Did they know that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill now awas the signature of the state’s ernor, Ron DeSantis, who had long emerged as a next-generatn Donald Tmp, wh an eye on supplantg Mar-a-Lago’s most famo rint as the standard-bearer of the illiberal right?

As my lleague Matt Ford explaed a recent story, Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill borrows om Texas’s famo abortn “bounty” law, as well as the ongog pched battle over “cril race theory” allegedly beg tght public schools, to fashn a uniquely pernic broadsi agast the LGBTQ muny—one that harkens back to the pre-Obergefell era. ”Prsed early March about Disney’s silence regardg Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” measure, the pany’s newly stalled chief rporate affairs officer, Geoff Morrell, himself a former member of the Gee W. ” Employe at Pixar published an open letter to Chapek allegg that Disney, their parent pany, had removed gay referenc and “overtly gay affectn” om s films.

WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS

But there’s another potential explanatn for Disney’s reluctance to cricize the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. ” But this move, already a difficult cisn, has now been further plited by Florida’s aggrsive new anti-gay law— California, there is no parable law, nor, given the state’s Democratic legislature, is there expected to be.

WHAT'S THE SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL THAT ULD IMPACT THE WHOLE UNTRY

The Republin Party’s ntempt for gay and trans people is well tablished. Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat. “People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda.

“One of them is a gay Democrat who’s married to a man.

FLORIDA LAWMAKERS PASS 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak. " Crics of the measure dubbed the Florida law "Don't Say Gay" and argue that s tent is to margalize LGBTQ people and their fai.