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• 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL INTRODUCED BY NJ STATE SENATOR
• “DON’T SAY GAY” AND WHAT REALLY MEANS
• NJ LGBTQ DEMS CONMN FL “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL
• SETTG THE RERD STRAIGHT: ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ IS NOT ABOUT PROTECTG KIDS OM ‘GROOMERS’ | CALAVIA-ROBERTSON
• PLATK -LEADS URT CHALLENGE TO FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW
• WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PROPOSED BY NJ STATE SENATOR
• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ DEBATE MAK INROADS BEYOND FLORIDA
• NEW JERSEY GOP STATE REP INTRODUC “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL
• WHAT'S THE SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL THAT ULD IMPACT THE WHOLE UNTRY

'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL INTRODUCED BY NJ STATE SENATOR

Durr's bill crackg down on LGBT tn largely rembl Florida's Parental Rights Edutn Act, which crics have lled the "Don't Say Gay Bill. Republin State Senator Ed Durr is attemptg to brg the homophobia and censorship of Ron DeSantis's "Don't Say Gay" bill to New Jersey.

“DON’T SAY GAY” AND WHAT REALLY MEANS

Send a letter to our state legislature and tell them to reject Durr's "Don't Say Gay" bill. Florida ma headl for passg a so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law that prohibs the discsn of genr inty and sexual orientatn for stunts om krgarten to third gra public schools.

NJ LGBTQ DEMS CONMN FL “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL

In a seri of tweets om early March, Christa Phaw, DeSantis’s prs secretary, said, “The bill that liberals accurately ll “Don’t Say Gay” would be more accurately scribed as an Anti-Groomg Bill. After Disney World Rort employe took a stand and staged walkouts over the pany’s ial lewarm statement, the pany spoke out agast DeSantis’s csa on the “Don’t Say Gay Law.

SETTG THE RERD STRAIGHT: ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ IS NOT ABOUT PROTECTG KIDS OM ‘GROOMERS’ | CALAVIA-ROBERTSON

The Tennsee legislature is workg on a bill that would ban schools om g textbooks or other materials that “promote, normalize, support, or addrs lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr issu or liftyl. The State(s) of 'Don't Say Gay' and Other School Censorship Efforts. Ron DeSantis signed the state's "don't say gay" bill to law Monday, but the Sunshe State isn't alone the efforts -- 's actually part of a natnal other stat are nsirg legislatn that would ban or rtrict classroom (or unselg office) discsn of LGBTQ+ issu and inty or books and other tnal materials that have LGBTQ+ ntent.

PLATK -LEADS URT CHALLENGE TO FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW

The bills aren't surfacg only ral stat or the Deep South -- they've also e up such reliably blue stat as Illois, New Jersey, and Rho Island, although they have ltle chance of passg, The Advote looks at the history of "don't say gay" bills analyz the current state of the and other censorship attempts -- and the legislators behd them. What Is a 'Don't Say Gay' Bill and What's the History?

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

"Don't say gay" bills have gotten much publicy this year, but they're really nothg new.

Stacey Campfield troduced a bill that would ban any lsons related to homosexualy through eighth gra. Campfield is no longer office, but other Tennsee lawmakers are tryg there was "don't say gay, " there was "no promo homo" -- bills that proliferated the 1980s and '90s as nservative legislators rpond to the AIDS crisis by seekg to ban what they nsired "promotn of homosexualy" schools, pecially sex tn urs. What's the Difference Between "Don't Say Gay" and "No Promo Homo" Bills?

‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PROPOSED BY NJ STATE SENATOR

A major difference between "no promo homo" bills and "don't say gay" bills is that the latter often have a "heavy-hand mandate on parent and fay volvement, " says Melanie Willgham-Jaggers, GLSEN's executive director. "The mandat are harmful and risk relsly outg LGBTQ+ young people to fai who do not affirm their children's inti, " Willgham-Jaggers when "don't say gay" bills don't pass, the anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric that up the bat over them do harm, pots out Cathryn Oakley, state legislative director and senr unsel at the Human Rights Campaign.

‘DON’T SAY GAY’ DEBATE MAK INROADS BEYOND FLORIDA

She also not that the bills are more accurately scribed as "don't say gay or trans" bills, as they target transgenr people along wh everyone else unr the LGBTQ+ umbrella.

Those who support "don't say gay or trans" bills across all stat are virtually all chief sponsor of Florida's bill is Sen. Louisiana's versn of a "don't say gay or trans" bill, Hoe Bill 837, is pretty drastic.

"Chris Kaiser, advocy director for the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn's Louisiana affiliate, noted to the paper that the bill "seems to be part of a trend to file a lot of different typ of legislatn that is jt aimed at villaizg gay and transgenr people and basilly removg them om public life. It's not hard to image homophobic or transphobic parents not wantg their kids exposed to the "liftyl.

NEW JERSEY GOP STATE REP INTRODUC “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL

"No public school district, public charter school, or public school library shall mata s ventory or e s curriculum books that make as their primary subject the study of lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr issu or recreatnal sexualizatn, " reads. Tennsee was one of the earlit stat to nsir "don't say gay" legislatn, but backers of such measur haven't managed to get them passed. Hoe Bill 800 would ban the e of "textbooks and stctnal materials or supplemental stctnal materials that promote, normalize, support, or addrs lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr (LGBT) issu or liftyl.

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

An early versn of the bill sgled out pictns of homosexualy, but Rep. " Notably, was jt three years ago that Arizona repealed s "no promo homo" law regardg sex tn.

Conservative legislators some stat aren't proposg explicly "don't say gay" bills but stead want to give parents broad powers to object to books and other tnal materials they don't want their children seeg, potentially rultg censorship of LGBTQ+ ntent or anythg that als wh the history and effects of racism and sexism the U.

An earlier versn listed pictns of homosexualy as "harmful to mors, " but the latt one has more general language. Florida’s “Parental Rights Edutn” bill, popularly lled “Don’t Say Gay, ” enavors to lim school districts & their partners om allowg stctn or discsn on sexual orientatn and genr inty, and also leav the door open for outg stunts to parents.