SNL’s Kate McKnon Rips Apart Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill: ‘I Am Deeply Gay’

Contents:

• KATE MCKNON RIPS TO FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL ON ‘SNL’
• ‘I AM EPLY GAY’: KATE MCKNON MOCKS FLORIDA’S NTROVERSIAL BILL
• SNL TRASH DESANTIS AND 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE'S KATE MCKNON MOCKS FLORIDA'S 'UNNSCNABLE' 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• SNL PERPETUAT ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ MISRMATN FLORIDA, AS LIBERAL PROPAGANDA WS OUT OVER SATIRE
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• SNL’S KATE MCKNON RIPS APART FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: ‘I AM DEEPLY GAY’
• SNL RIPS FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE’S KATE MCKNON SPEAKS OUT ABOUT FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: ‘I AM DEEPLY GAY’
• KATE MCKNON ROASTS FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL ON ‘SNL’
• ‘SNL’: KATE MCKNON SKEWERS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL, OSR ISAAC HOSTS
• DESANTIS' SO-LLED DON’T SAY GAY BILL PART OF AN UGLY PATTERN
• KATE MCKNON SLAMS FLORIDA'S "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL DURG "SNL"'S WEEKEND UPDATE

KATE MCKNON RIPS TO FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL ON ‘SNL’

This weekend on “Saturday Night Live, ” st member Kate McKnon shared her thoughts on the “Don’t Say Gay” bill that is expected to bee law ntroversial piece of legislatn, officially lled the Parental Rights Edutn bill, part prohibs “classroom discsn about sexual orientatn or genr inty certa gra levels” Florida's primary schools.

” McKnon, who is gay, said. “Bee when I was middle school the ‘90s, I was kd of tortured by the nstant e of the word ‘gay, ’ like, ‘That’s so gay’ or ‘Ew, you’re gay, ’ and ma me feel horrible.

‘I AM EPLY GAY’: KATE MCKNON MOCKS FLORIDA’S NTROVERSIAL BILL

) Ron DeSantis has taken a stand and said, ‘No, you nnot say gay school anymore! “I am eply gay — sorry, eply ncerned. Do this ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law have a purpose?

“Ugh, if the ‘90s were right and ‘gay’ means ‘bad, ’ then this is the gayt law I’ve ever seen, ” she add. Carlos Guillermo Smh, a Democrat who is gay, said on the Florida Hoe floor.

'I am eply gay': Kate McKnon mocks Florida's ntroversial bill. 'Saturday Night Live' star Kate McKnon, who is openly gay, mocked a ntroversial bill crics are llg the 'Don't Say Gay' bill.

SNL TRASH DESANTIS AND 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

The now famo, "Don't Say Gay" bill that has passed the Florida Legislature, managed to get the attentn of dividuals at the feral level of ernment. The Parental Rights Edutn bill ma a natnal name for self after Democrats labeled the, "Don't Say Gay, " bill for some of the language the legislatn that would prevent nversatns regardg the LGBT muny beg prohibed Krgarten through 3rd gra. However, the show explaed their own words that the bill, "I feel like there has been a miss unrstandg, " Mcknon's -star went on to say, "the law actually means that you n't acknowledge that gay exists at all.

Kate McKnon stops by the Update sk to discs Florida's Don't Say Gay Bill. " Mcknon then went on to ll the legislatn, "the gayt law I have ever seen, " and enuraged children, "if you n't say you might as well sg . McKnon, who is openly gay, appeared as herself to addrs the legislatn passed by Florida's Hoe of Reprentativ, which would bar tors om speakg to primary school stunts about LGBTQ+ topics, such as genr inty and sexual orientatn, that are not nsired "age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate" for pupils.

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE'S KATE MCKNON MOCKS FLORIDA'S 'UNNSCNABLE' 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

Known as the Parental Rights Edutn bill but ed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by crics, the ntroversial legislatn would allow parents greater thory to take legal actn agast school districts that vlate the bill.

" McKnon explaed, "When I was middle school the '90s, I was kd of tortured by the nstant e of the word 'gay. ' Like, 'Oh, that's so gay. Ew, you're gay.

" "To hear that [Florida ernor] Ron DeSantis has taken a stand and said, 'No, you nnot say gay at school anymore, ' I'm jt so jazzed. The law actually means that you n't acknowledge that 'gay' exists at all. " He explaed to a stunned McKnon, "Yeah, like teachers n't speak about gay people history, or if a kid has a gay fay member.

SNL PERPETUAT ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ MISRMATN FLORIDA, AS LIBERAL PROPAGANDA WS OUT OVER SATIRE

And if a kid nfis that they're gay to a teacher, the teacher has to out them to their parents. It's jt that thg of when they say, 'Don't say gay, ' then 's stuck your head.

"Anyway, I am eply gay — sorry, eply ncerned.

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

It jt seems like this is gog to make kids gay and trans — sorry, prsed and suicidal. Like, do this 'Don't Say Gay' law have a purpose?

If the '90s were right and gay means bad, then this is the gayt law I've ever seen. Ron DeSantis (R) right Saturday after the media had already been mischaracterizg the so-lled “Don’t Say Gay Bill, ” monstratg they’re more terted doctratn than satire.

Durg the “Weekend Update” segment of the March 6 Saturday Night Live broadst, the openly gay edienne Kate McKnon joed Col Jost to ment on the recent legislatn out of the Sunshe State.

SNL’S KATE MCKNON RIPS APART FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: ‘I AM DEEPLY GAY’

McKnon reunted experienc middle school hearg people e the word gay as a negative adjective before statg her surprise, “that Ron DeSantis has taken a stand and said ‘No, you nnot say gay school anymore’, I’m jt like, I’m so jazzed and Florida of all plac. ” “You n’t acknowledge that gay exists at all, ” Jost said before suggtg that would prohib teachers om speakg about gay people history and if a stunt tells a teacher nfince that they are gay, that teacher mt report that rmatn to the parents.

SNL RIPS FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

Potg out the misnomer labelg the bill “Don’t Say Gay, ” DeSantis spoke out on the ntued mischaracterizatns, “When I hear the thgs and then I look on the paper about what is, there’s this massive gulf between what actually says wh rpect to the very young kids vers what some of the protts the pal or whatever are about. Returng to the negative adjective e of the word gay, McKnon referred to the law as the “gayt law” that she had ever seen before closg out her appearance by “sgg” the word gay over and over set to the tune of Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water. 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.

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE’S KATE MCKNON SPEAKS OUT ABOUT FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: ‘I AM DEEPLY GAY’

” 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.

KATE MCKNON ROASTS FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL ON ‘SNL’

For starters, cricism that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill do not fact say “gay” anywhere s text is te.

‘SNL’: KATE MCKNON SKEWERS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL, OSR ISAAC HOSTS

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.

DESANTIS' SO-LLED DON’T SAY GAY BILL PART OF AN UGLY PATTERN

NBCAfter a packed ld open featurg Put apologists Tucker Carlson, Lra Ingraham, Donald Tmp, and Steven Seagal raisg money for Rsian oligarchs as part of the “Fox News Ukraian Invasn Celebratn Spectacular, ” this week’s SNL Weekend Update brought on st member Kate McKnon, who is openly gay, to addrs Florida’s eply homophobic “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn, which recently passed Florida’s Hoe of Reprentativ, would ban “classroom discsn about sexual orientatn or genr inty” the state’s primary schools. “When I was middle school the ’90s, I was kd of, like, tortured by the nstant e of the word ‘gay’—like, ‘That’s so gay’ or ‘Ew, you’re gay. You nnot say ‘gay’ school anymore!

KATE MCKNON SLAMS FLORIDA'S "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL DURG "SNL"'S WEEKEND UPDATE

“The law actually means that you n’t acknowledge that gay exists at all… teachers n’t speak about gay people history or if a kid has a gay fay member… and if a kid nfis that they’re gay to a teacher, the teacher has to out them to their parents. “I am eply gay—sorry, ncerned. It jt feels like this is gonna make kids gay and trans—sorry, prsed and suicidal—and I thk the laws are lbians.