LGBTQ+ people flock to Florida for Gay Days ftival

Contents:

• FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW FUELS ANTI-LGBTQ HATE ONLE
• MENGOCL DISEASE OUTBREAK AMONG GAY, BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA, 2021–23
• CDC WARNS THAT GAY MEN ARE SPREADG DISEASE FLORIDA
• LARGT U.S. GAY RIGHTS GROUP ISSU FLORIDA TRAVEL ADVISORY
• LARGE MENGIS OUTBREAK AMONG GAY, BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA, CDC WARNS
• LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN
• LGBTQ+ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• CDC WARNS OF 'LARGE, ONGOG' MENGIS OUTBREAK FLORIDA AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW FUELS ANTI-LGBTQ HATE ONLE

By DAVID KLEPPER, Associated PrsRearch that analyzed social media posts fds that hateful referenc to gays, lbians and other LGBTQ people surged onle after Florida passed a law that bars stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra. Referenc to pedophil and “ groomg ” rose by more than 400 percent the month after Florida's “Don't Say Gay” measure was approved, acrdg to a report released Wednday by the Human Rights Campaign, one of the natn's largt LGBTQ advocy groups, and the Center for Counterg Digal Hate, a nonprof group that tracks onle measure, passed by the Florida Legislature on March 8 and signed by Republin Gov. ”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.

" 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. Outbreak primarily affectg gay, bisexual men.

Includ the s is a large, ongog outbreak, primarily among gay and bisexual men. A new outbreak of mengocl disease has h the state of Florida, and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC) said that homosexuals and bisexuals are largely rponsible for . Acrdg to the CDC, there are two primary forms of mengocl fectns that typilly spread, the first beg mengis, which is an fectn of the lg of the bra and spal other is a bloodstream fectn, and the CDC is spreadg fear about how both n be adly an effort to persua more people, and particularly “gay” and “bi” men, to rollg up their sleev for yet another Big Pharma shot.

MENGOCL DISEASE OUTBREAK AMONG GAY, BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA, 2021–23

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 Human Rights Campaign joed the NAACP, the League of Uned Lat Amerin Cizens, the Florida Immigrant Coaln and Equaly Florida issug travel or relotn warngs for the Sunshe State, one of the most popular stat for tourists to vis the U. Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said. A large outbreak of mengocl disease — a potentially adly fectn — has been reported among gay and bisexual men Florida, acrdg to health officials, who are urgg people the populatns to get vaccated agast the disease.

The outbreak is primarily affectg gay and bisexual men Florida, cludg people wh HIV, acrdg to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC). 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.

CDC WARNS THAT GAY MEN ARE SPREADG DISEASE FLORIDA

— Tens of thoands of LGBTQ people are flockg to central Florida this weekend to go on theme park ris, mgle wh stumed performers, dance at all-night parti and lounge poolsi at hotels durg Gay Days, a s-long though Gov.

Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers have champned a slew of anti-LGBTQ laws — spurrg the most proment gay rights group the U. And other civil rights anizatns to issue warngs the Sunshe State may no longer be safe — Gay Days anizers are still enuragg visors om around the world to e to one of Florida’s largt gay and lbian say a large turnout will send a msage that LGBTQ people are not gog away Florida, which is ntually one of the most popular stat for tourists to vis. If the hoped-for 150, 000 or more visors e to the half-week of pool parti, drag bgo and thrill ris at Orlando’s theme parks and hotels, then “that’s the pot, ” said Joseph Clark, CEO of Gay Days Inc.

”It’s not lost on the anizers that the highlight of the weekend will be a Saturday meetup of LGBTQ visors at the Magic Kgdom at Walt Disney World, where the first Gay Days started as a sgle-day celebratn 1991. Currently, Disney is embroiled a legal fight wh DeSantis over the ernor and Republin lawmakers’ takeover of Disney World’s erng district — after Disney officials publicly opposed legislatn that crics have dubbed “Don’t Say Gay. “It’s ls a csa and more like, ‘I’m not gog to spend my money where bad thgs are gog on, ’” Hayn Days has survived past challeng, cludg the early years when Disney posted signs at the Magic Kgdom’s entrance warng visors there was a large gatherg of gays and lbians and offerg pass to other parks for guts who might be offend.

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

Over the last three s, though, the theme parks and rorts have thrown down the wele mats as Gay Days has bee a profable bounce between the sprg break and out-of-school summer crowds.

Durg Gay Days the 1990s, hundreds of anti-abortn activists wh Operatn Rcue protted outsi Walt Disney World, and the Southern Baptist Conventn ced the gatherg llg for a boytt of all thgs Disney. Some Christian groups tried to buy air time durg Gay Days the late 1990s to prsure people to renounce their sexual orientatn, but mastream TV statns Orlando rejected the ads.

ORLANDO — Tens of thoands of LGBTQ+ people are flockg to central Florida this weekend to go on theme park ris, mgle wh stumed performers, dance at all-night parti and lounge poolsi at hotels durg Gay Days, a s-long though Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers have champned a slew of anti-LGBTQ+ laws — spurrg the most proment gay rights group the U. And other civil rights anizatns to issue warngs that the Sunshe State may no longer be safe — Gay Days anizers are still enuragg visors om around the world to e to one of Florida’s largt gay and lbian say a large turnout will send a msage that LGBTQ+ people aren’t gog away Florida, which is ntually one of the most popular stat for tourists to vis.

LARGE MENGIS OUTBREAK AMONG GAY, BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA, CDC WARNS

Gay Days is a bon ’s not lost on the anizers that the highlight of the weekend will be a Saturday meetup of LGBTQ+ visors at the Magic Kgdom at Walt Disney World, where the first Gay Days started as a sgle-day celebratn 1991. Currently Disney is embroiled a legal fight wh DeSantis over the ernor and Republin lawmakers’ takeover of Disney World’s erng district — after Disney officials publicly opposed legislatn that crics have dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.

“It’s ls a csa and more like, ‘I’m not gog to spend my money where bad thgs are gog on, ’” Hayn the anizers of Gay Days and their supporters say that Orlando is as gay-iendly a cy as they e, earng a perfect sre on the Human Rights Campaign x, which measur how clive ci are of LGBTQ+ rints and visors. “We live a bubble here Orlando, where even wh the chaos Florida, we feel safe here, ” said Jeremy Williams, edor--chief of Watermark Publishg Group Inc., a Florida-based media pany that is one of the sponsors of Gay Days has survived past challeng, cludg the early years when Disney posted signs at the Magic Kgdom’s entrance warng visors there was a large gatherg of gays and lbians and offerg pass to other parks for guts who might be offend.

LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN

Some Christian groups tried to buy air time durg Gay Days the late 1990s to prsure people to renounce their sexual orientatn, but mastream TV statns Orlando rejected the Clark, the CEO of the Gay Days bs, had his wish, DeSantis would accept an open vatn to see one of the drag shows durg this year’s ftivi.

LGBTQ+ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL

Alarmgly rtrictive laws ntue to proliferate across much of the Raedle / GettyThe red-state drive to roll back civil rights is enterg a new phase, perhaps bt symbolized by Florida’s passage this week of the “Don’t Say ‘Gay’” bill censorg how schools discs sexual orientatn. The refal of the Walt Disney Company, one of Florida’s most powerful employers, to publicly cricize Florida’s “Don’t Say ‘Gay’” bill as moved through the legislature has quickly e to symbolize a retreat om the loud public opposn that many pani exprsed to earlier state iativ rtrictg civil liberti, such as the “bathroom bill” North Carola Republins approved the broad range of socially nservative iativ that Florida’s Republin ernor, Ron DeSantis, and the GOP state legislature have advanced sce 2021, bs has been “silent, silent as fuck, they are so silent, ” says Florida Democratic State Reprentative Anna Eskamani, echog a plat I heard across several stat om Democrats and civil-rights advot this week. This clus laws limg accs to abortn, rtrictg votg rights, banng transgenr girls om participatg high-school or llege sports, barrg transn medil treatment for transgenr mors, censorg how teachers n talk about current or historil racial and genr equi, removg licensg requirements to publicly rry firearms, creasg penalti for public protters, and immunizg drivers who h and jure Watch what’s happeng red statFlorida alone has passed almost every em on that list, and this week add the “Don’t Say ‘Gay’” bill rtrictg classroom discsn of sexual orientatn.

” Although many big rporatns touted their mment to Black History Month Febary, he not, they “are not willg to put their hand on the sle to stop the removal of Mart Luther Kg and Rosa Parks om our public schools” or to stand up unequivolly for votg rporate rponse was even more muted to the “Don’t Say ‘Gay’” legislatn Florida passed Tuday.

Disney’s reticence on the “Don’t Say ‘Gay’” bill ntrasted wh s activist role agast other nservative legislatn unr s former chairman and CEO Robert Iger.

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

”Bin also tweeted stern opposn to Florida’s “Don’t Say ‘Gay’” bill, and when passed on Tuday, Edutn Secretary Miguel Cardona issued a stronger statement of nmnatn than he’s offered on any of the earlier state-level bills targetg curriculum. Ron advisory nclud that Florida "may not be a safe place" to vis or take up rince bee of the passage of new laws and polici that are "hostile" to LGBTQ muni and may pose a "ser risk" to the health and safety of highlighted a number of laws and polici aimed at transgenr Floridians, cludg a policy to rtrict accs to genr-affirmg healthre for transgenr youth and a law to prevent transgenr female stunts om playg on women's and girls' sports advisory also referenced the so-lled "Don't Say Gay" bill, which is formally lled The Parental Rights Edutn Act.

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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

”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.

CDC WARNS OF 'LARGE, ONGOG' MENGIS OUTBREAK FLORIDA AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others.

In Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice. Centers for Disease Control and Preventn is urgg gay and bisexual men to get the mengocl vacce after an outbreak Florida has led to an crease s.