Contents:
- WHICH DEMOCRATIC U.S. SENATORS HAVE THE GAYT AND LEAST GAY STAFFS?
- FLORIDA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STATE SENATOR ON ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PASSG: ‘THE AIR WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE ROOM’
- THE ‘ARMED AND GAY’ SENATE HOPEFUL WHO HELPED FORCE GEIA’S NOFF
WHICH DEMOCRATIC U.S. SENATORS HAVE THE GAYT AND LEAST GAY STAFFS?
I., and the first openly gay mayor of a state pal -- has reprented Rho Island's First Congrsnal District sce 2011. She mak history as Kansas's first LGBTQ member of Congrs and the first gay Native Amerin woman elected to Congrs.
Gay ngrsman Sean Patrick Maloney won reelectn 2018 to ntue reprentg New York's 18th District. Mark Pon is a gay polician and former small-bs owner who first took office the U. After Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill was passed by the state Senate this week, the legislature’s first openly gay Senator, who had argued agast the bill, said he’s worried about the state’s LGBTQ+ youth.
FLORIDA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STATE SENATOR ON ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PASSG: ‘THE AIR WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE ROOM’
Shevr Jon plead wh his lleagu to vote agast the state legislature’s ntroversial Parental Rights Edutn bill, known to s crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
Like other LGBTQ+ advot, Jon, who is the state Senate’s first openly gay member, argued that the bill, which prohibs classroom stctn about sexual orientatn and genr inty that is not “age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate” for children, would likely force LGBTQ+ stunts further to the closet and stigmatize the experienc of people who are not heterosexual or cisgenr. The son of a pastor South Florida, the hman state senator prevly served three terms the state Hoe of Reprentativ, but did not publicly e out as gay until 2018, when he was 34. Geia this week troduced s own “Don’t Say Gay” bill, though s fate is far ls certa.
You see bills like the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill bee there’s jt not enough LGBTQ reprentatn stg at the table.
THE ‘ARMED AND GAY’ SENATE HOPEFUL WHO HELPED FORCE GEIA’S NOFF
FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY BILL’ HEADS TO DESANTIS’S DESK. DISNEY CEO ADDRESSES SILENCE ON FLORIDA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL.
Whe Hoe officials equently tout the diversy of Print Bin’s admistratn, cludg that roughly 15 percent of all appote intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer. Buttigieg is the first openly gay Senate-nfirmed Cabet secretary U. After Buttigieg’s nomatn was announced December 2020, he relled watchg the nfirmatn hearg of Jam Hormel, an openly gay man nomated as an ambassador durg the Clton admistratn who faced stnch Republin opposn.