Fact-checkg 3 proment claims about Florida's ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill - Poynter

Contents:

• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• RON “DON’T SAY GAY” DESANTIS’ 2024 MPAIGN NTU TO IMPLO & THE LATT BLUNRS PROVE
• RON “DON’T SAY GAY” DESANTIS PLOTS MAJOR SHAKP AMID REPORTS HIS CRAPPY MPAIGN IS “ON THE BRK”
• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ CORPORATE EDN: DESANTIS WANTS TO WAGE WAR AGAST BUD LIGHT
• DESANTIS-BACKED 'DONT SAY GAY' BILL SPARKS OUTRAGE
• FACT-CHECKG 3 PROMENT CLAIMS ABOUT FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS
• SO, WHAT EXACTLY IS THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW & HOW DO IT AFFECT YOU?

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

Kev Maxen, an assistant ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, ma sports history after publicly g out as gay. Maxen’s disclosure is a historic one, makg him the first openly gay ach of a U. Maxen’s announcement two years after NFL star Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player.

RON “DON’T SAY GAY” DESANTIS’ 2024 MPAIGN NTU TO IMPLO & THE LATT BLUNRS PROVE

“I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” the former Las Vegas Rairs player, 30, revealed a June 2021 Instagram vio. Even gay Republins such as Richard Grenell and Gee Santos nounced as homophobic.

It is undoubtedly more bad news for Ron DeSantis, who has been at war wh Disney sce the rporatn cricized Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law last year.

RON “DON’T SAY GAY” DESANTIS PLOTS MAJOR SHAKP AMID REPORTS HIS CRAPPY MPAIGN IS “ON THE BRK”

Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis is startg to acknowledge realy: his printial n is a disaster.

He and his wife both released vilently homophobic ads over nsecutive weeks, earng wispread nmnatn, even om gay Republins, cludg Gee Santos and ex-Tmp official Richard Grenell. The board rejected the curriculum that clud ntent about Harvey Milk, an acced pedophile and gay activist, later the eveng. Amanchwu, who is a ntributor to Turng Pot USA Fah and nsired “a risg voice exposg the racist iologi of abortn and cril race theory, ” told the Washgton Tim that his list was rponse to a liberal iology that giv “moral equivalency between blacks and gay rights.

‘DON’T SAY GAY’ CORPORATE EDN: DESANTIS WANTS TO WAGE WAR AGAST BUD LIGHT

Advot of the curriculum and the gay agenda are “tryg to say that the same stggle is tantamount to what the LGBTQ muny is gog through today as relat to discrimatn, ” Mr. And then on June 30, the last day of Pri Month, DeSantis released a bizarre homophobic ad that showed a mashup of clips, headl, and statement ma by Tmp support of the LGBTQ muny juxtaposed wh a mashup of DeSantis dog his bt to make himself look tough while attackg LGBTQ rights. A Florida bill that would lim classroom discsns on sexual orientatn and genr inty and enurage parents to sue schools or teachers that engage the topics ntu to move through the state Hoe and 's beg lled a "Don't Say Gay" bill by LGBTQ advot, who fear that if this bill is signed to law, uld act as a plete ban on the lsons on LGBTQ opprsn, history and discsns about LGBTQ amendment to the bill was proposed Friday that also would require school officials to disclose a stunt's sexual or genr inty to their parents wh six weeks of fdg out about the stunt's inty.

DESANTIS-BACKED 'DONT SAY GAY' BILL SPARKS OUTRAGE

Ron DeSantis and the state legislature for the efforts last month a Twter advocy anizatns say the bills are remiscent of the “no promo homo” laws of the 1990s that barred tors om discsg queer topics schools, but wh an add mandate on parent and fay volvement. But crics nicknamed HB 1557 the “don’t say gay” bill, warng isn’t necsary and mak some stunts feel unsafe by sglg out LGBTQ material as dangero and appropriate.

Dennis Baxley (R-Ola) the bill’s Senate sponsor who said he was addrsg “social engeerg” that uld rult more children intifyg as gay or transgenr.

” The guidance clus fns of terms related to sexual orientatn and genr inty — cludg gay, lbian and transgenr — that teachers are enuraged to e when applible. ” The word ‘gay’ People on Facebook and Twter have said that Florida Republins want to ban the word “gay” school.

FACT-CHECKG 3 PROMENT CLAIMS ABOUT FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

“GOP’s 2022 platform: Ban books, Ban abortn, Ban Black history, Ban transgenr teens, Ban sayg ‘gay’ and Ban votg, ” said Dean Obeidallah, a left-leang rad host and edian, on March 11. ’” On SNL’s “Weekend Update” segment, anchor Col Jost told st member Kate McKnon, who is gay, that the bill “means that you n’t acknowledge that ‘gay’ exists at all. ” McKnon then slammed the legislatn, sayg, “I am eply gay — sorry, eply ncerned.

It jt seems like this is gog to make kids gay and trans — sorry, prsed and suicidal.

” The claims n largely be attributed to the legislatn’s “don’t say gay” nickname, ed by Equaly Florida. The legislatn do not lerally prohib Floridians om sayg the word “gay, ” but do prohib “classroom discsn about sexual orientatn or genr inty. 'I am eply gay': Kate McKnon mocks Florida's ntroversial bill.

WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS

In their qut to bee the party of “parental rights, ” Republins Florida and other stat are attemptg to muzzle discsn of gay and civil rights school. Ron DeSantis signed – tled “Parental Rights Edutn” – has been dubbed by crics the “Don’t Say Gay” bill bee seeks to ban discsn of genr and sexualy issu wh younger stunts.

What has been dubbed by crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill was the subject of an tense opposn mpaign. Earlier this month, DeSantis grew agated at the Florida Strawberry Ftival when a reporter asked him about the phrase – “Don’t Say Gay” – that crics have applied to the bill.

MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) - You may be wonrg why the Sunshe State has e unr tense natnal scty over legislatn that crics have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" law.

SO, WHAT EXACTLY IS THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW & HOW DO IT AFFECT YOU?

In that ve, they have labeled the measure the "Don't Say Gay" bill.