Do the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Say That? - WSJ

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• NEW YORK CY LNCH AD MPAIGN NOUNCG FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW
• VIO SHOWS OSR ISAAC SGG 'GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAYYYYY' RPONSE TO FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'
• AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL PASSED, ANTI-LGBTQ 'GROOMG' RHETORIC SURGED 400% ONLE
• WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
• WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS
• LGBTQ+ GROUP SLAMS FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL NEW AD
• WHAT'S THE SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL THAT ULD IMPACT THE WHOLE UNTRY
• REMEMBER WHEN HILARY DUFF END HOMOPHOBIA BY TELLG PEOPLE TO STOP SAYG ‘THAT’S SO GAY’?
• AHF TV AD CAMPAIGN IMPLOR DISNEY TO OPPOSE ‘DON’T SAY GAY!’
• 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BE LAW FLORIDA, BANNG SEXUAL ORIENTATN STCTN OM K-3
• DO THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL SAY THAT?
• SPONSOR OF FLORIDA'S SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FENDS AGAST MEDIA 'DISRMATN' NARRATIVE

NEW YORK CY LNCH AD MPAIGN NOUNCG FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW

Ron DeSantis's legislative agenda pos to LGBTQ+ 30-send ads feature pictns of what the anizatn says will happen if both the "don't say gay" bill and the Stop Woke Act are passed to law.

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VIO SHOWS OSR ISAAC SGG 'GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAYYYYY' RPONSE TO FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

"The "don't say gay" bill would ban discsn of LGBTQ+ topics primary gras.

For example, anyone, even someone who don't have a child schools, is able to object to library books and stctnal materials and ny accs to every stunt as a rult, " Smh Whe Hoe and Print Joe Bin nmned the "don't say gay" legislatn last week. New York Cy will lnch an ad mpaign Florida nouncg a new law that opponents have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law. What opponents are llg the “Don’t Say Gay” law has gotten the attentn of other stat across the untry.

So, I happen to feel and I tweeted an opn about the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill Florida. Gen Z stunts had anized walk outs across the untry support of the LGBTQ muny and LGBTQ stunts often chantg “We Say Gay. Osr Isaac sang a "gay" jgle rponse to Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill durg a prs junket earlier this week.

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

Marvel's "Moon Knight" star Osr Isaac had a simple rponse to Florida's ntroversial Parental Rights Edutn bill that activists have labeled the "Don't Say Gay" bill. "I gus my ment would be [starts sgg] gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gayyyyyy!

FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'

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.

AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL PASSED, ANTI-LGBTQ 'GROOMG' RHETORIC SURGED 400% ONLE

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. The bill, which some opponents have lled "Don't Say Gay, " was signed by DeSantis on Monday.

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

The "Don't Say Gay" moniker om crics of the measure who blast this ia and sist this policy will hurt LGBTQ children. "Florida's HB 1557, also known as the 'Don't Say Gay' bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed to law, " the statement read.

Anti-LGBTQ hate surged onle followg the passage of a Florida law that lims classroom stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty, a new report particular surge volv rhetoric implyg that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people are “groomg” children and clus such slurs as “groomer, ” “pedophile” and “predator” relatn to the LGBTQ muny. The month after the Florida Senate passed the Parental Rights Edutn bill, or what crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, on March 8, tweets mentng the LGBTQ muny alongsi the slurs creased 406%, acrdg to the report, which was nducted by the LGBTQ advocy group Human Rights Campaign and the nonprof Center for Counterg Digal law, which took effect July 1, bans stctn about sexual orientatn and genr inty “ krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards. In April, a gay uple said a man on an Amtrak tra lled them “rapists” and “pedophil” ont of their children.

Today, we have an analysis of a piece of tn legislatn Florida that crics have referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” we have news of our own: We’re makg some chang to the Edutn Briefg. See below for Asenc-Rhe/Tampa Bay Tim, via Associated PrsA close read of ‘Don’t Say Gay’Gov.

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

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.

'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.

LGBTQ+ GROUP SLAMS FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL NEW AD

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. The ad ph back agast Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn bill — dubbed by s crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — which was passed by a state Hoe mtee January and a state Senate mtee earlier this month.

WHAT'S THE SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL THAT ULD IMPACT THE WHOLE UNTRY

HOUSE COMMITTEE IN FLORIDA PASSES ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL. Demonstrators gather on the steps of the Florida Historic Capol Mm ont of the Florida State Capol March Tallahassee, Fla, prottg what opponents ll the "Don't Say Gay" bill. Hoe Republins have troduced legislatn that some crics are scribg as a natnal "Don't Say Gay" bill – spired by the ntroversial Florida law that bans stctn on genr inty and sexual orientatn krgarten through third gra class.

Crics of the measure dubbed the Florida law "Don't Say Gay" and argue that s tent is to margalize LGBTQ people and their fai. A feral 'Don't Say Gay or Trans' bill... Activist Er Reed, who tracks anti-transgenr legislatn, argu that the parison to a "Don't Say Gay" bill mimiz the potential effects of this proposed legislatn.

"Don't Say Gay/Trans was foced on 'classroom stctn' which was bad enough, " she wrote on Twter. Sce the noughti queens are at the foreont of everyone’s mds aga (Paris Hilton, Ldsay Lohan, Nile Richie etc), let me remd you of which gal is not only the least problematic, but has also been a drivg force the fight agast homophobia sce way back when: Hilary Duff. Back the noughti, when people thought was okay to say “that’s so gay” a negative way, Hilary Duff took a stand by takg part the Thk Before You Speak mpaign.

REMEMBER WHEN HILARY DUFF END HOMOPHOBIA BY TELLG PEOPLE TO STOP SAYG ‘THAT’S SO GAY’?

The mpaign was created by Arnold Worldwi and the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN) as an effort to te people on the fact that the term is offensive to LGBTQIA+ people. In the inic 2008 ad, Hilary Duff approach two women a clothg store after hearg one of them say that an outf is “so gay.

The mpaign was released at a time where “that’s so gay” was beg tossed around equently and as someone who was stgglg wh their sexual inty at the time, I n tell you that hearg beg spouted by people (cludg iends) was credibly hurtful.

It ma my gay ltle heart sg when I saw that Hilary Duff was actively takg a stand and puttg her name and face to a e that aims to elimate the homophobic term. You’d thk at this pot people are ted enough to know that the term is not okay to be ed, but apparently not bee over the weekend, MAFS star Jsika Power uttered “so gay” an Instagram Story. & LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AHF is rollg out a new TV ad mpaign the greater Orlando area implorg the Walt Disney Company to speak out publicly and loudly opposn to the hateful “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn pendg Florida (FL’s HB1557 and SB1834).

AHF TV AD CAMPAIGN IMPLOR DISNEY TO OPPOSE ‘DON’T SAY GAY!’

In rponse to Florida’s “Don’t’ Say Gay” bill targetg LGBTQ+ youth, their fai, teachers and school unselors that is pendg the Florida legislature. ZOOM PRESS TELECONFERENCE: Disney and “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn.

'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BE LAW FLORIDA, BANNG SEXUAL ORIENTATN STCTN OM K-3

But Disney has given money to every sgle sponsor and -sponsor of this year’s famo 'Don’t Say Gay' bill. AHF’s TV spot urg Disney to speak out and fight back agast discrimatn by publicly opposg the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, ncludg “… bee the happit place the world mt have a place for every child. FL & CA “Don’t Say Gay” Disney Ralli Thurs., March 3 at 10:00 am Orlando at and at Disney HQ Burbank.

ORLANDO, FL: @ WALT DISNEY COMPANY "Don’t Say Gay" RALLY.

DO THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL SAY THAT?

Advot to mand Disney to SPEAK OUT now agast "Don’t Say Gay" legislatn pendg Florida. BURBANK, CA: @ DISNEY HEADQUARTERS "Don’t Say Gay" RALLY. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Monday that forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through Gra 3, a policy that has drawn tense natnal scty om crics who argue margaliz LGBTQ legislatn has phed Florida and DeSantis, an ascendg Republin and potential 2024 printial ndidate, to the foreont of the untry's culture wars, wh LGBTQ advot, stunts, Democrats, the entertament dtry and the Whe Hoe nouncg what crics have lled the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

SPONSOR OF FLORIDA'S SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FENDS AGAST MEDIA 'DISRMATN' NARRATIVE

Florida stunts staged walkouts and packed to mtee rooms and statehoe halls to prott the measure, often wh boomg chants of "We say gay! "Throughout bate the Republin-ntrolled statehoe, Democrats have said the bill's language — particularly the phras "classroom stctn" and "age appropriate" — uld be terpreted so broadly that discsn any gra uld trigger lawsus and create a classroom atmosphere where teachers would avoid the subjects Disney workers walk off the job over pany's rponse to Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' bill"The bill's tentnally vague language leav teachers aaid to talk to their stunts and opens up school districts to stly and ivolo ligatn om those seekg to exclu LGBTQ people om any gra level, " said state Rep. Smh, a Democrat who is gay.