What Florida's 'Don’t Say Gay' bill actually says

Contents:

• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• IS LLG A HOMOSEXUAL PERSON “GAY” OFFENSIVE?

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

Banana - Vio Chat for Gay Men. 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.

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THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Whether you’re straight, gay, lbian, or whatever – you’ll f right ! There was a recent high profile story the news about an 11-year-old boy who mted suici, apparently bee he uld no longer tolerate beg lled “gay. The most mon sult among kids today is “gay.

" Kids get mad when they are lled gay and they sometim get to fights.

I have great passn for gays.

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What is one to do when lled gay? Many anti-bully activists sist that anti-bully laws should specifilly mentn sults agast gays and those of non-heterosexual orientns.

If be a crime to sult people, then, is hoped, no one will be attacked wh the “gay” sult, and the associated vlence will disappear.

One of the problems wh makg illegal to ll someone “gay” is that vlat the First Amendment right to Freedom of Speech. The tth is that society has e a long way recent s toward rcg hatred and discrimatn agast gays.

IS LLG A HOMOSEXUAL PERSON “GAY” OFFENSIVE?

However, will be a while–if ever–before anti-gay sentiment disappears pletely. So what is one to do when lled gay? Usg laws to punish people for g “gay” as an sult is not likely to solve the problem, eher.

If people get punished for sultg gays, do you thk they are gog to thk, “Now I rpect gays so much bee I was punished”? We n al wh gay sults all by ourselv, and at the same time help rce prejudice society.

Scenar Number One: I am not gay, but you ll me gay.