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Contents:

• FLORIDA PASS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• WHAT EXACTLY IS FLORIDA’S NEW ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW?
• 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BE LAW FLORIDA, BANNG SEXUAL ORIENTATN STCTN OM K-3
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT FLORIDA'S NEW 'DON'T SAY GAY' RULE THAT BANS DISCSN OF GENR FOR ALL STUNTS
• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: FLORIDA SENATE PASS LAW MARGALIZG LGBTQ+ PEOPLE
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• WHAT IS THE NEW FLORIDA LAW THAT CRICS HAVE DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’?
• FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS
• DESANTIS SIGNS 'DON'T SAY GAY' EXPANSN AND GENR-AFFIRMG RE BAN
• FLORIDA EXPANDS ‘DON’T SAY GAY'; HOE OKS ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
• FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'
• AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
• 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL PASS FLORIDA SENATE

FLORIDA PASS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

The Florida Senate passed a ntroversial bill on Tuday that prohibs classroom stctn of sexual orientatn and genr inty for some younger age groups the state spe fierce opposn that rose om the lol and natnal levels as well as the Whe measure, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by opponents, has garnered natnwi attentn, cludg a “Saturday Night Live” sketch mockg the legislatn and strong nmnatn om feral officials.

Shevr Jon, the first openly gay Florida state senator, a tearful addrs asked his lleagu to support an amendment that would have altered the bill’s language to say that classroom stctn should not be tend to “change a stunt’s sexual orientatn or genr inty.

Ron DeSantis's sk, addg to a list of anti-gay polici on his rume as he prepar to n for Hoe also approved a bathroom bill that would require dividuals to e genr-signated rtroom facili based on the genr on their birth certifite stead of their genr inty. The bills passed the same day that the state's board of tn approved a measure expandg the state's "don't say gay" law up until high school graduatn.

WHAT EXACTLY IS FLORIDA’S NEW ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW?

From Your Se Articl'Thunrdome of Hate': Florida Hoe Debat Slew of Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills ›Florida Stunts Plan Walkout to Prott Edutn Rtrictns This Friday ›Homophobic DeSantis Campaign Staffer Cheers at LGBTQ+ Fai Fleeg Florida ›Florida Bs Displays Homophobic Slur on Sign Over Memorial Day Weekend ›. (AP) — Florida has e unr tense natnal scty over legislatn that crics have labeled the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

In that ve, they have labeled the measure the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BE LAW FLORIDA, BANNG SEXUAL ORIENTATN STCTN OM K-3

Florida Hoe Republins advanced a bill, dubbed by opponents as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, to forbid discsns of sexual orientatn and genr inty schools, rejectg cricism om Democrats who said the proposal moniz LGBTQ+ people. Ron DeSantis a major polil w ahead of the 2022 midterm electns, approvg a ntroversial measure dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” by opponents that bars tors om discsg sexual orientatn wh young stunts.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT FLORIDA'S NEW 'DON'T SAY GAY' RULE THAT BANS DISCSN OF GENR FOR ALL STUNTS

And Tennsee, legislators are phg different bills seekg to ban materials that “promote, normalize, support, or addrs lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr issu or liftyl” and prevent public schools and public charter schools om stockg librari wh books ntag “obscene materials or materials harmful to mors. The most ntent piece of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill stat that classroom stctn surroundg sexual orientatn and genr inty is banned outright for stunts krgarten through third gra while prohibg lsons on those for other gras unls they are “age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate.

‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: FLORIDA SENATE PASS LAW MARGALIZG LGBTQ+ PEOPLE

Yet her ments echo the stance of the Republin ernor, who ph back agast the bill’s “Don’t Say Gay” moniker.

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

Shevr Jon (D-Miami Garns), who is gay. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Monday that forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through Gra 3, a policy that has drawn tense natnal scty om crics who argue margaliz LGBTQ legislatn has phed Florida and DeSantis, an ascendg Republin and potential 2024 printial ndidate, to the foreont of the untry's culture wars, wh LGBTQ advot, stunts, Democrats, the entertament dtry and the Whe Hoe nouncg what crics have lled the "Don't Say Gay" bill. Florida stunts staged walkouts and packed to mtee rooms and statehoe halls to prott the measure, often wh boomg chants of "We say gay!

"Throughout bate the Republin-ntrolled statehoe, Democrats have said the bill's language — particularly the phras "classroom stctn" and "age appropriate" — uld be terpreted so broadly that discsn any gra uld trigger lawsus and create a classroom atmosphere where teachers would avoid the subjects Disney workers walk off the job over pany's rponse to Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' bill"The bill's tentnally vague language leav teachers aaid to talk to their stunts and opens up school districts to stly and ivolo ligatn om those seekg to exclu LGBTQ people om any gra level, " said state Rep. Smh, a Democrat who is gay. "Even worse, #DontSayGay sends a hateful msage to our most vulnerable youth who simply need our support.

WHAT IS THE NEW FLORIDA LAW THAT CRICS HAVE DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’?

Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' bill part of Republin drive to lim talk of sex and race U. Florida’s Board of Edutn approved an expansn of the state’s so-lled ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law, which will bar teachers om talkg about sexual orientatn and genr for all public school stunts.

FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS

“The cisn by the Florida Board of Edutn to extend curriculum bans through twelfth gra is disgraceful — and will rult tastrophic nsequenc for Florida stunts and supportive tors, ” wrote Melanie Willgham-Jaggers, executive director of Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network, a nonprof found by tors to create affirmg spac for queer youth, an email statement.

The expansn of ‘Don’t Say Gay’ laws Florida legislators have also been nsirg a number of bills wh siar provisns to the Parental Rights Edutn law that seek to prohib stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty until eighth gra. The set of three bills beg nsired— Hoe Bill 1223, 1069 and Senate Bill 1320— would expand Don’t Say Gay laws.

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

It also arriv at a tensn pot between Disney, who publicly nounced Don’t Say Gay, and the ernor. The Republin-domated Florida legislature passed a bill on Tuday which would forbid stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra, rejectg a wave of cricism om Democrats that margaliz LGBTQ+ proposal, which opponents have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, now mov to the sk of the Republin ernor, Ron DeSantis, who is expected to sign to s ceptn, the measure has drawn tense opposn om LGBTQ+ advot, stunts, Democrats, the Whe Hoe and the entertament dtry, amid creased attentn on Florida as Republins ph culture war legislatn and DeSantis ascends the GOP as a potential printial ndidate. Dozens of stunts and advot flood mtee rooms durg the early stag of the bill procs and then packed the halls of the legislature as moved toward fal passage, often wh chants of “We say gay!

FLORIDA EXPANDS ‘DON’T SAY GAY'; HOE OKS ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS

DeSantis has chafed at llg the proposal the “Don’t Say Gay” bill bee he said would apply to stctn on any genr inty or sexual orientatn. Republin supporters say the new laws rtrict genr-affirmg re for kids and adults, require people to e bathrooms that align wh their sex assigned at birth, ban kids om attendg “adult live performanc, " block the e of preferred pronouns and expand Florida's Parents Right law, rid by crics as the "Don't Say Gay" advot, however, lled the bill-signgs a "slate of hate.

'Don't Say Gay' expand:Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' (HB1557) expand to all gras.

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

Florida expands "Don't Say Gay" to clu all grasFlorida’s ntroversial Parental Rights Edutn Act, also lled the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, has been expand to now clu fourth through 12th Parental Rights Edutn Act, HB 1557, was signed to law by DeSantis on March 28, 2022. 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. ” 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. 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. The ntroversial law, dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” by s opponents, is set to take effect July.

AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS

The platiffs Thursday’s lawsu clu Equaly Florida, an LGBTQ advocy anizatn; Fay Equaly, a New York-based nonprof; a 17-year-old sophomore Palmetto, Florida, who intifi as gay; an 18-year-old senr Osprey, Florida, who intifi as gay; the parent of a transgenr fifth-grar Florida; three same-sex upl livg Florida wh young children; and a middle-school public teacher Grand Ridge, Florida.

'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL PASS FLORIDA SENATE

– Florida has e unr tense natnal scty over legislatn that crics have labeled the “Don’t Say Gay” GOP legislatn, which Republin Gov.