Largt US gay rights group issu Florida travel advisory for anti-LGBTQ+ laws

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• LARGT U.S. GAY RIGHTS GROUP ISSU FLORIDA TRAVEL ADVISORY
• LOS ANGEL COUNTY BANS OFFICIAL TRAVEL TO FLORIDA OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW
• LARGT US GAY RIGHTS GROUP ISSU FLORIDA TRAVEL ADVISORY FOR ANTI-LGBTQ+ LAWS
• LOS ANGEL COUNTY BANS OFFICIAL TRAVEL TO FLORIDA OVER NTROVERSIAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW

LARGT U.S. GAY RIGHTS GROUP ISSU FLORIDA TRAVEL ADVISORY

”The news as major LGBTQ-oriented events such as Miami Beach’s Pri and Orlando’s Pri Prom are set to take place later this events – such as the Out & Equal Workplace Summ and Gay Days, which affects many bs Orlando such as SeaWorld, Walt Disney World, Hilton Hotels & Rorts and more – may also be News has reached out for ment om the affected pani.

LOS ANGEL COUNTY BANS OFFICIAL TRAVEL TO FLORIDA OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW

However, acrdg to a 2023 Gallup poll, 55 percent of Amerins were satisfied wh the acceptance of gay and lbian people, while 38 percent were dissatisfied.

Equaly Florida also listed a seri of legislative steps the state had taken regardg the cln of LGBTQ+ ntent the tn said a law dubbed "Don't Say Gay"—barrg teachers om krgarten to third-gra stunts public schools om discsg sexual orientatn and genr inty the classroom—had ma Florida "synonymo wh the anti-LGBTQ+ movement to empower ernment censorship. Lawmakers 2016 banned non-sential travel to stat wh laws that discrimate agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people. Joed other civil rights anizatns Tuday issug a travel advisory for Florida, warng that newly passed laws and polici may pose risks to mori, immigrants and gay travelers.

" The NAACP, long an advote for Black Amerins, joed the League of Uned Lat Amerin Cizens (LULAC), a Lato civil rights anizatn, and Equaly Florida, a gay rights advocy group, issug travel advisori for the Sunshe State, where tourism is one of the state's largt job sectors. Recent efforts to lim discsn on LGBTQ topics schools, the removal of books wh gay characters om school librari, a recent ban on genr-affirmg re for mors, new rtrictns on abortn accs and a law allowg Floridians to rry ncealed guns whout a perm ntributed to Equaly Florida's warng. Those clu an expansn of Florida’s so-lled ‘don’t say gay’ law, attacks on bs that host drag shows, and a ban on genr-reaffirmg re for trans youth.

LARGT US GAY RIGHTS GROUP ISSU FLORIDA TRAVEL ADVISORY FOR ANTI-LGBTQ+ LAWS

Equaly Florida's warng ced DeSantis' work to lim discsn on LGBTQ topics schools, ban books wh gay characters om school librari and the state's recent ban on genr-affirmg re for mors. The NAACP, long an advote for Black Amerins, joed the League of Uned Lat Amerin Cizens (LULAC), a Lato civil rights anizatn, and Equaly Florida, a gay rights advocy group, issug travel advisori for the Sunshe State, where tourism is one of the state’s largt job sectors.

LOS ANGEL COUNTY BANS OFFICIAL TRAVEL TO FLORIDA OVER NTROVERSIAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW

Recent efforts to lim discsn on LGBTQ topics  schools, the removal of books wh gay characters om school librari, a recent ban on genr-affirmg re for mors, new rtrictns on abortn accs and a law allowg Floridians to rry ncealed guns whout a perm ntributed to Equaly Florida’s warng. But Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has sudnly sparked a natnal war of words.In 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.” Kate McKnon ripped to the bill durg a recent “Weekend Update” segment on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” The hosts of the ABC talk show “The View” mulled over the policy for more than seven mut on air last month.

Ron DeSantis, who has said he supports the bill but hasn't signed yet, and Disney CEO Bob Chapek.Supporters of HB 1557 say would give parents greater ntrol over their children’s tn, vditg their “parental thory.” 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.”So, which is ?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 twice.But legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn.”“In the same way that cril race theory isn’t beg tght schools, that hasn’t stopped people like the ernor of Florida om ployg the term ‘cril race theory’ efforts to engage certa kds of polil manvergs,” said Charlton Copeland, a profsor at the Universy of Miami School of Law who wr about sexual orientatn and genr inty.

“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 orientatn.The 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. “We are gog to rema a refuge of sany and a cal of normalcy, and kids should have an upbrgg that reflects that, ” DeSantis said at the bill new laws rtrict genr-affirmg re for kids and adults, require people to e public bathrooms that align wh their sex assigned at birth, ban kids om attendg “adult live performanc, " rtrict preferred pronouns schools and expand Florida's Parents Right law, rid by crics as the "Don't Say Gay" law. A “Say Gay Anyway” rally Miami Beach, Fla., March 2022.