Tell State Legislators: No "Don't Say Gay" NJ! - Actn Network

Contents:

• '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. 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.

“DON’T SAY GAY” AND WHAT REALLY MEANS

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

"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. 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.

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

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.

"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.

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

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.

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

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. Tell State Legislators: No "Don't Say Gay" NJ! Actg Attorney General Matt Platk announced today that he and Washgton DC Attorney General Karl Race will lead a 16-state-and-district aln opposg Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn law, often known as the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law is plaly unnstutnal, and will stigmatize and harm untls LGBTQ youth Florida and beyond. 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.

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

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.