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• GAY STUNT SAYS FLORIDA SCHOOL IS STOPPG HIS N FOR STUNT LEARSHIP
• A FLORIDA CLASS PRINT ULDN’T DISCS BEG GAY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATN SPEECH – SO HE TALKED ABOUT HIS CURLY HAIR
• LGBTQ YOUTH FIGHT BACK AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• GAY HIGH SCHOOLER SAYS HE'S 'BEG SILENCED' BY FLORIDA'S LGBTQ LAW
• FLORIDA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SAYS WILL REFER TO STUNTS ONLY BY 'BLOGIL GENR,' ASKS GAY AND TRANSGENR STUNTS TO LEAVE
• FLORIDA STUNT FDS CLEVER WAY TO SHRED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW IN GRADUATN SPEECH
• AMENDMENT TO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL FLORIDA REQUIR SCHOOLS TO OUT STUNTS TO THEIR PARENTS WH SIX WEEKS
• GAY FLORIDA STUNT WHO LED PROTT CAN'T RUN FOR CLASS PRINT
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
• FLORIDA STUNTS STAGE SCHOOL WALKOUTS OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• HOW FLORIDA'S 'DON’T SAY GAY' LAW HARMS LGBTQ+ STUNTS AND TEACHERS
• FLORIDA ADVANC "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL THAT WOULD BAR LGBTQ DISCSNS SCHOOLS
• CHRISTIAN FLORIDA SCHOOL TELLS PARENTS GAY AND TRANSGENR STUNTS MT 'LEAVE IMMEDIATELY'
• FLORIDA STUNTS PARTICIPATE MASSIVE WALKOUT TO PROTT THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

GAY STUNT SAYS FLORIDA SCHOOL IS STOPPG HIS N FOR STUNT LEARSHIP

Ileana Garcia's office after passage of the Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by crics, Miami on March Raedle / Getty Imag fileMay 19, 2022, 2:54 PM UTC / Source: Associated PrsA 17-year-old gay stunt who was spend for leadg protts at his high school agast Florida’s so-lled Don’t Say Gay legislatn says school admistrators are stoppg him om nng for senr class print. High school grad uldn't say 'gay' speech, so he did this stead.

The class print at a Florida high school says he wasn’t allowed to share his experience as a gay stunt his graduatn speech or how the state’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law will affect stunts like him, so he talked about somethg else that mak him a ltle different om his classmat – his curly hair. Moricz me out durg his hman year and was the first openly-gay class print at the school, so he felt a rponsibily to addrs the ntroversy.

A FLORIDA CLASS PRINT ULDN’T DISCS BEG GAY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATN SPEECH – SO HE TALKED ABOUT HIS CURLY HAIR

"Stori and histori about people like CJ -- a gay, 17-year-old boy -- would not be allowed to be tght classrooms om krgarten to third gra if the legislatn, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill, is implemented, limg classroom curriculum on sexual orientatn and genr inty. "They won't know who they are, they won't be able to exprs themselv, " CJ said about stunts classrooms where the lsons are Waln, 17, is jog other high school stunts a letter-wrg mpaign agast the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

LGBTQ YOUTH FIGHT BACK AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

"I really thk this sends a msage to stunts, to staff, to our muny, that there is somethg wrong wh beg gay or that is somethg that is too taboo to be discsed and that we are somethg that should be the shadows, " Fenng said. Joe Hardg, who troduced the bill, told ABC News podst "Start Here" that teachers and stunts n still discs sexual orientatn and genr inty their classrooms, there jt n't be a curriculum or lsons on Fenng and other Florida stunts went to the state pal to nont legislators about the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

Courty CJ WalnActivists have likened the bill to a gag orr or to the “No Promo Homo” laws of the 1990s that barred tors om discsg queer topics the bill would ban lsons ncerng genr or sexual orientatn classrooms om krgarten to third gra, would also not allow them when is age-appropriate or not le wh state standards. "Regardls of whether this bill pass or not, gay kids and trans kids are still gog to be schools, are still gog to be experiencg beg gay and beg trans, " Fenng said. Moricz said he “strongly believ” the requt was rponse to a newly enacted state law, which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

Proponents of the measure have ntend that giv parents more discretn over what their children learn school and say LGBTQ issu are “not age appropriate” for young crics have argued that the law uld stifle teachers and stunts om talkg about their inti or their lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer fay members. ”“The reason somethg like the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law seems like nothg but is actually everythg is that when you nnot talk about or share who you are, there is a nstant subnsc affirmatn that you are not valid, that you should not exist, ” Moricz fight agast the legislatn is personal for Moricz, he add. A relig school Florida says will only refer to stunts by their sex assigned at birth, while pupils who are gay, transgenr or genr nonnformg "will be asked to leave the school immediately.

GAY HIGH SCHOOLER SAYS HE'S 'BEG SILENCED' BY FLORIDA'S LGBTQ LAW

"It ntued: "We believe that any form of homosexualy, lbianism, bisexualy, transgenr inty/liftyle, self-intifitn, btialy, ct, fornitn, adultery and pornography are sful the sight of God and the church (Genis 2:24; Levic 18:1-30; Romans 1:26-29; I Corthians 5:1; I Corthians 6:9; I Thsalonians 4:2-7). He then nfirmed a school policy do not allow stunts to be homosexual or transgenr and that an email was sent to parents on June 6 remdg them of the policy.

FLORIDA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SAYS WILL REFER TO STUNTS ONLY BY 'BLOGIL GENR,' ASKS GAY AND TRANSGENR STUNTS TO LEAVE

And be transgenr or homosexual. "The email was a factor promptg the fay of a 16-year-old girl, who is gay and was a stunt at the school, to transfer her to another relig school that is more acceptg. " The man asked that his inty be whheld to protect his fay om 18-year-old woman who graduated om the school last year and is gay said there were tim when anti-LGBTQ msag were exprsed durg chapel hours on school days.

She said one day, McKeen "started yellg about how if you're gay you're gog to hell. McKeen, the vio statement, disputed he said gay people are gog to hell. "Josh Bell, executive director of One Orlando Alliance, an LGBTQ nonprof central Florida, was brought up the nservative Uned Methodist Church and was tght homosexualy is wrong, he said.

FLORIDA STUNT FDS CLEVER WAY TO SHRED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW IN GRADUATN SPEECH

Bell, who is gay, said a school policy such as the one at Grace Christian School will lead to emotnal trma and uld possibly lead to physil harm for some LGBTQ stunts. A Florida high school stunt opted for a hair metaphor after he says faculty members threatened to censor his graduatn speech if he spoke about his LGBTQ activism or experienc as a gay teen. Zanr Moricz, senr class print of Pe View School for the Gifted Osprey, Florida, planned to e his speech on Sunday to cricize the state’s Parental Rights Edutn, or “Don’t Say Gay” law.

AMENDMENT TO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL FLORIDA REQUIR SCHOOLS TO OUT STUNTS TO THEIR PARENTS WH SIX WEEKS

So, when Moricz, 18, livered his speech at Pe View’s graduatn ceremony, he shared quips about his curly hair as phemisms for beg gay.

GAY FLORIDA STUNT WHO LED PROTT CAN'T RUN FOR CLASS PRINT

He also anized stunt walkouts prott of the “Don’t Say Gay” law, and is named a lawsu agast the state of Florida related to the legislatn. A new amendment to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill would require schools to rm parents of their children’s sexual orientatn wh six weeks of learng the stunt isn’t straight, NBC affiliate WFLA reported on Monday.

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

It has been universally nmned by gay rights groups, as well as the Whe Hoe. Stunt Who Led Don't Say Gay Prott Can't Run for Class PrintThe Florida stunt who was spend for leadg a prott agast the state’s new "don’t say gay" law at his high school now says the school is preventg him om nng for class Petocz, 17, said school thori at Flagler Palm Coast High School are sayg the disciplary actns he received for leadg those protts now preclu him om nng for any stunt body office.

“My name is Jack Petocz, and I am a 17-year-old gay stunt activist Flagler County, ” Petocz posted to social media, tailg his efforts anizg over 500 stunts the protts.

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

Tertiary tn Florida is makg way for s lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and qutng stunts. In addn, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and qutng stunts n also requt an LGBT roommate through the school’s matchg system. As part of the 1969 People’s Coaln for Gay Rights, the Pri Stunt Unn has played an sential role fightg for stunt equaly.

FLORIDA STUNTS STAGE SCHOOL WALKOUTS OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

We work to empower LGBTQ+ stunt lears and ambassadors as change agents on mp and the muny, regnizg that sexual inty and genr inty and exprsn work through and are fluenced by race, ethnicy, culture, age, disabily, class, fah, and other social characteristics, we offer support and tnal programmg that rporate prcipl of social jtice to rce heterosexism, genrism, homophobia, and transphobia all of their forms on the UF mp and beyond.

HOW FLORIDA'S 'DON’T SAY GAY' LAW HARMS LGBTQ+ STUNTS AND TEACHERS

You n terme a school’s clivy by lookg at the factors:The Camp Pri InxThe Camp Pri Inx is a benchmarkg tool for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and qutng stunts to disver clive mp. But isn’t enough that they promise to provi an affirmg and welg space for lbian, gay, bisexual, and qutng stunts.

The Bottom LeIf you’re a lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr stunt lookg to study Florida, you’re luck.

FLORIDA ADVANC "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL THAT WOULD BAR LGBTQ DISCSNS SCHOOLS

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.

CHRISTIAN FLORIDA SCHOOL TELLS PARENTS GAY AND TRANSGENR STUNTS MT 'LEAVE IMMEDIATELY'

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.

As Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn law — or what crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law — go to effect Friday, some of the state’s public school districts have begun rollg out new polici to lim LGBTQ issu and inti om beg discsed the Tuday night, the Leon County School Board unanimoly approved s “LGBTQ Inclive School Gui, ” which clus a provisn to alert parents if a stunt who is “open about their genr inty” is their child’s physil tn class or wh them on an overnight school trip.

Clifford / AP fileThe so-lled Don’t Say Gay law, HB 1557, bans “stctn” about sexual orientatn or genr inty “ krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards.

FLORIDA STUNTS PARTICIPATE MASSIVE WALKOUT TO PROTT THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

” A provisn the law also requir school staff members to alert parents about “cril cisns affectg a stunt’s mental, emotnal, or physil health or well-beg, ” which many advot have terpreted as a way to force tors to out their gay or trans stunts. They have also ntend that will not prohib teachers and stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 attack at the Pulse gay nightclub crics and legal experts have said the broad language of the law uld open school districts and teachers to lawsus om parents who believe any nversatn about LGBTQ people or issu is “not age appropriate.

Carlos Smh, a Democrat who is gay and has been an outspoken cric of the new law, said he was “not surprised” that schools the state were announcg the polici and guil.