'Say Gay' Billboards to Pop up Florida Agast DeSantis Bill

Contents:

• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
• BILLBOARDS ACROSS FLORIDA ENURAGE PEOPLE TO 'SAY GAY'
• 'SAY GAY' BILLBOARDS THAT FY GOV. RON DESANTIS' SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL ARE ABOUT TO BE POPPG UP FLORIDA CI
• WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS
• 'SAY GAY' BILLBOARDS LNCH ACROSS COUNTRY OPPOSG ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: FLORIDA SENATE PASS NTROVERSIAL LGBTQ SCHOOL MEASURE
• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: WHAT DO MEAN?
• ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY

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

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.

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WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

Ron DeSantis of Florida is expected to sign Hoe Bill 1557, a proposed law that supporters ll the “Parental Rights Edutn” bill and opponents refer to as the “Don’t Say Gay” lleague Dana Goldste has done a close readg of the bill self, which is about much more than gay rights. Sentence has earned the bill the “Don’t Say Gay” nickname:L 97-101: Classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty may not occur krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state impact is clear enough: Instctn on genr and sexualy would be nstraed all gras. That uld disurage a teacher om speakg about gay fai wh the whole class, even if some stunts have gay bill also targets mental health and unselg servic — a place where stunts often have difficult nversatns about genr inty and sexualy, pecially if they stggle to talk about those nversatns at as Florida revis s school unselg standards, adopted 2010, which affirm genr and sexual diversy unselg.

Billboards poppg up some of Florida’s largt ci are enuragg passersby to “say gay. ”The massive roadsi msag are a rponse to the state’s ntroversial Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed by crics the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which Republin Gov. ”'Say Gay' billboard Orlando, Fla.

BILLBOARDS ACROSS FLORIDA ENURAGE PEOPLE TO 'SAY GAY'

WESH“It’s OK to say gay.

A bill crics ll "Don't Say Gay" awas Florida Gov. A left-leang super PAC is rpondg wh "SAY GAY" billboards Florida ci.

'SAY GAY' BILLBOARDS THAT FY GOV. RON DESANTIS' SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL ARE ABOUT TO BE POPPG UP FLORIDA CI

Ron DeSantis will soon sign the so-lled Don't Say Gay bill, but Floridians will be seeg fiant billboards that say big, bold pal letters. "SAY GAY, " the billboards will read. "The bill is lled "Don't Say Gay" by opponents bee would rtrict classroom stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty schools, and parents uld sue school districts for vlatg the bill.

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

An Oh-based nonprof lled "Have a Gay Day" lnched a mpaign wh 20 billboards across the untry March to spread "msag of love, " the Los Angel Bla reported. 'I am eply gay': Kate McKnon mocks Florida's ntroversial bill. 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.

Southern Progrs PAC and FOLX Health, the latter of which says 's the "first digally native queer and trans telehealth provir, " recently put up billboards wh such msag as "Say Gay" and "Protect Trans Youth" several ci throughout the untry. One even popped up Orlando, Florida, the same day that the ntroversial so-lled "Don't Say Gay" bill was signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, acrdg to bill, HB1557, stat that "the bill rerc a parent's fundamental right to make cisns regardg the re and upbrgg of his or her child the public school settg.

'SAY GAY' BILLBOARDS LNCH ACROSS COUNTRY OPPOSG ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS

"In rponse to Newsweek, Southern Progrs PAC volunteer Ally Sammar said the group is dog this orr to "bat the harmful and unnecsary 'Don't Say Gay' bill. The ia that teachers are groomg children is a weird nservative fantasy that helps them 'expla' why some kids are gay. "It's OK to say gay.

Photo of FOLX Health's "Say Gay" billboard.

The measure, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by s opponents, was passed by the state Hoe last month and now heads to Republin Gov. Parents n sue school districts for alleged a tearful addrs to the Senate on Monday, Democrat Shevr Jon, the first openly gay Florida state senator, urged his lleagu to narrow the bill’s language to say stctn should not be “tend to change a stunt’s sexual orientatn or genr inty.

‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: FLORIDA SENATE PASS NTROVERSIAL LGBTQ SCHOOL MEASURE

”“I ask that you open up your hearts jt a tad b, ” he said, notg the name-llg and shunng he had faced as a gay man.

‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: WHAT DO MEAN?

Florida lawmakers have been phg Hoe Bill 1557, dubbed the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, which jt passed the Hoe Judiciary Commtee along party l.

ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY

The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill is set to e to bate and a full Hoe vote next week. At s re, the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill outl what seems to be one of the most ntroversial topics today’s news. Florida is not the only state wh bills siar to ‘Don’t Say Gay’.