Stunts across Semole County walkout to prott Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill

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• FLORIDA STUNTS PARTICIPATE MASSIVE WALKOUT TO PROTT THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• FLORIDA STUNTS STAGE SCHOOL WALKOUTS OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• DISNEY WORKERS WALK OUT OVER THE PANY'S RPONSE TO SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• FLORIDA STUNTS WALK OUT OF CLASS PROTT OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• HUNDREDS OF FLORIDA STUNTS STAGE WALKOUT TO PROTT ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• STUNTS ACROSS FLORIDA WALKOUT OF CLASS PROTT OF “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL
• FLORIDA STUNTS PLAN TO WALK OUT OF CLASS AFTER GOP PASS “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL
• FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUNTS WALKOUT OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• HIGH SCHOOL STUNTS ACROSS FLORIDA WALK OUT TO PROTT 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• TAMPA BAY STUNTS WALK OUT PROTT OF FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• DISNEY EMPLOYE ARE STAGG WALKOUTS OVER PANY’S RPONSE TO THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• FLORIDA STUNTS ARE WALKG OUT OF SCHOOL PROTT OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• DISNEY EMPLOYE ARE STAGG WALKOUTS OVER FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLDISNEY EMPLOYE ARE STAGG WALKOUTS OVER FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• STUNTS ACROSS SEMOLE COUNTY WALKOUT TO PROTT FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• SWFL STUNTS HOLD WALKOUT TO PROTT ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• BREVARD STUNTS WALK OUT OF CLASS TO PROTT FLORIDA'S 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL
• SOUTH FLORIDA STUNTS HOLD WALKOUTS AGAST ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• STUNTS ACROSS FLORIDA STAGE WALKOUTS PROTT OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LEGISLATN

FLORIDA STUNTS PARTICIPATE MASSIVE WALKOUT TO PROTT THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

'Absolutely': Pete Buttigieg on whether 'Don't Say Gay' bill is dangero. More than 500 stunts participated a massive walkout Monday at Wter Park High School Orange County, Florida, prott of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill currently beg nsired by the state Senate, acrdg to walkout anizer and high school stunt Will Larks. LGBTQ advot say the measure would lead to further stigmatizatn of gay, lbian and transgenr children, g more bullyg and suicis wh an already margalized muny.

Durg the walkout, stunts were chantg, “We say gay! Stunts across Florida staged school walkouts rponse to legislatn — dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill — that would prohib discsg sexual orientatn and genr inty the state’s primary schools. Stunts wavg rabow picket signs and shoutg “We say gay!

FLORIDA STUNTS STAGE SCHOOL WALKOUTS OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

"I believe this attempt to threaten me and remove me om mp is riddled wh homophobia and bigotry, " said Petocz, who is gay. "You’re silencg a queer stunt standg up for what he believ , his rights, and you’re disciplg him for challengg you on the allowance of pri flags a gay rally?

Hillsborough High School stunts prott the "Don't Say Gay" bill Thursday Tampa, Fla. The measure’s opponents ntend that the bill would be trimental to the mental health of the state’s LGBTQ children and teachers, preventg them om openly talkg about themselv and their Joe Hardg, the Republin who troduced the bill January, has repeatedly said the bill would not prohib stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 attack on the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando.

"So I feel like should be tght schools bee will help other people jt like me know that 's OK to be gay. Petersburg, Gibbs High School, is draped wh rabow flags, Gay Straight Alliance club posters "everywhere" and other LGBTQ-affirmg symbols. The full-sle walkout me after Disney employe planned a seri of smaller walkouts durg their 15-mute breaks to urge the pany to take a stronger stance agast the Parental Rights Edutn legislatn, which advot have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

DISNEY WORKERS WALK OUT OVER THE PANY'S RPONSE TO SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

"The recent statements by The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) learship regardg the Florida legislature's recent 'Don't Say Gay' bill have utterly failed to match the magnu of the threat to LGBTQIA+ safety reprented by this legislatn, " an open letter by Disney employe reads.

FLORIDA STUNTS WALK OUT OF CLASS PROTT OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

Florida stunts statewi on Thursday staged walkouts to prott the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which will go to a full floor vote the Senate next week. Stunts schools across Florida Thursday staged walkouts to prott the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill – set to go before the full state Senate on Monday – that would prohib primary school tors om engagg discsns related to sexual orientatn or genr inty. “Today, those who will be most impacted by this dangero piece of legislatn — Florida stunts — mobilized by the thoands to walk out of class and mand a stop to the Don’t Say Gay bill, ” the LGBTQ+ advocy group Equaly Florida said Thursday a statement.

In a statement on Twter, Jack Petocz, the Flagler Palm Coast High School senr who anized Thursday’s protts on social media, lled the bill “homophobic and discrimatory” and mend stunts across the state for phg back agast “regrsive” legislatn like “Don’t Say Gay. “I believe this attempt to threaten me and remove me om mp is riddled wh homophobia and bigotry, ” Petocz, who is gay, told NBC News. “You’re silencg a queer stunt standg up for what he believ , his rights, and you’re disciplg him for challengg you on the allowance of pri flags a gay rally?

HUNDREDS OF FLORIDA STUNTS STAGE WALKOUT TO PROTT ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

FLORIDA ‘DON’T SAY GAY BILL’ PASSES FINAL SENATE COMMITTEE. Hundreds of stunts at a Florida high school on Monday participated a walkout prott of the state’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which uld see a fal vote the state’s Senate as soon as Tuday.

STUNTS ACROSS FLORIDA WALKOUT OF CLASS PROTT OF “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL

To prott the legislatn, wh some chantg, “We say gay!

Florida stunts prott the "Don't say gay" billPhoto: Nade Smh.

Stunts across Florida have walked out of class prott of the state legislature’s hateful “Don’t say gay” bill, a bill that would ban teachers om acknowledgg the existence of LGBTQ people. “I believe this attempt to threaten me and remove me om mp is riddled wh homophobia and bigotry, ” said Petocz.

FLORIDA STUNTS PLAN TO WALK OUT OF CLASS AFTER GOP PASS “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL

FL HS stunts across the state are leavg their sks prott of the #DontSayGay bill. To the stunts across Florida participatg walkouts, standg together, and sendg a powerful msage agast the #DontSayGay bill: I see you and I’m wh you. A 2017 Hor article found that seven stat wh siar “no promo homo” laws also had some of the worst HIV rat the entire natn.

The LGBTQ stunt advocy group GLSEN says that schools often misapply vaguely wrten “no promo homo” laws to apply to health curriculum, school events, and even extracurricular activi. After a gay legislator broke down tears speakg agast the bill, Republins passed the measure whout Democrat support.

FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUNTS WALKOUT OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

“The Don’t Say Gay bill seeks to ban discsns surroundg sexual orientatn and genr inty.

Today, the Florida Hoe passed the "Don't Say Gay" bill. Stunts across Florida have anized class walkouts on Thursday to prott the "don't say gay" bill unr nsiratn by the Florida legislature after an image spread on social media llg for stunts and schools to participate the statewi actn.

Stunts across Florida will do jt that at the Don't Say Gay Walkout at noon on March 3. #DSGWalkout #FreeFlorida, #RemoveRon #VoteBlueToSaveFlorida #SayGay\u201d — Lley Abravanel \ud83e\ua9 (@Lley Abravanel \ud83e\ua9).

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

"He said the walkout was anized llaboratn wh the school's Gay-Straight that's not the only place protts are occurrg. Petersburg are walkg out of class prott of the ntroversial so-lled #DontSayGay bill movg through the legislature, which lims stctn on sexual orientatn, genr inty schools. "\u201c#DontSayGay walkout at Freedom High School right now- sent to me by one of the teachers who saved me.

The Don't Say Gay bill wants that for stunts today. \nThe #DontSayGay bill wants that for stunts today. 1646336874Stunts Sarasota led the streets to chant, "No homophob.

HIGH SCHOOL STUNTS ACROSS FLORIDA WALK OUT TO PROTT 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

"\u201cAbout 100 @Riverview_HS stunts walk out, prott the #DontSayGay Bill today. 1646329456The walkouts are takg place as LGBTQ+ activists prott Walt Disney World for not takg a stance agast the bill spe holdg mercial Pri events like Gay Days annually. \u201cPosted one hour ago on Instagram\u2014 acrdg to the post, protters are at @WaltDisneyWorld askg the pany to take a stance agast the #DontSayGay bill \ud83d\udc47\u201d — Rep.

(WFLA) — High school stunts Wton, Florida staged a walkout Wednday to prott the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill which reached the sk of Governor Ron DeSantis a day earlier.

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.

TAMPA BAY STUNTS WALK OUT PROTT OF FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

” 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.

DISNEY EMPLOYE ARE STAGG WALKOUTS OVER PANY’S RPONSE TO THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

”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. Instead of stg physics class, 15-year-old Kaylee Sanll was screamg "We say gay! Sanll and over 100 Leon County high school stunts walked out of school at noon prott of legislatn that's bee known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill by crics.

FLORIDA STUNTS ARE WALKG OUT OF SCHOOL PROTT OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

Stunts wh signs that said "Beg gay is not a crime" and "Love is Love" stood outsi the Hoe and Senate chambers, chantg and yellg, hopg legislators would verage:'No place for the kids': How Leon County Schools' LGBTQ+ gui worked for one teen'Don't Say Gay' bill rais ncerns among Florida LGBTQ muny and alli"We n tell the policians that they have unrtimated  for the last time, " Sanll said. Crics unter that schools are sometim the only safe place for some LGBTQ youth and that the legislatn would hurt kids who aren't ready to e out to their Joe Hardg, R-Williston, who sponsored the bill, said  won't stop nversatns about inty altogether, but rather will guarantee that school personnel n't make cisns regardg a stunt's health whout volvg prott wound up the Capol urtyard, where stunts were greeted by openly gay state Rep. "Don't Say Gay bill sparks other protts at high schools throughout Florida Elsewhere Thursday, more than 500 stunts chanted at Flagler Palm Coast High School's stadium Thursday.

"We will say gay! "One of the problems wh the 'Don't Say Gay' bill is that a lot of people already don't unrstand LGBTQ+ issu and rights, " said Lopez, who is gay. "I’m our school’s first openly-gay class print and the queer stunts at Pe View are pretty vol, " Moricz said.

”They were skippg class or lunch to take a stand agast the so-lled “don’t say gay” bill movg through the Florida Legislature. We shouldn’t have to say ’s OK to be gay.

DISNEY EMPLOYE ARE STAGG WALKOUTS OVER FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLDISNEY EMPLOYE ARE STAGG WALKOUTS OVER FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

They object to the language that prohibs stctn about genr inty and sexual orientatn krgarten through third gra, or other gras if ’s emed not to be said they unrstand the proposal, also known as the Parental Rights Edutn bill, don’t lerally ban anyone om sayg the word “gay, ” and that ntas provisns attemptg to give parents more ntrol over what their children learn school. Petersburg participate a walkout at noon on Thursday, March 3, 2022, part of a statewi prott agast the "don't say gay" bill makg s way through the Florida Legislature.

Francis watched and shot vio as stunts waved rabow flags and a poster or two, at tim chantg “gay liv matter” and GSA, which stands for Genr Sexualy Alliance. ”But Vondska, who is gay, said he worri about stunts ls acceptg environments. Petersburg wrote msag chalk on a school walkway durg a statewi walkout on Thursday, March 3, 2022, prott of the "don't say gay" bill beg nsired by the Florida Legislature.

Stunts at Hillsborough High hold LGBTQ pri flags durg a statewi school walkout to prott Florida's “don't say gay” legislatn on Thursday, March 3, 2022 Tampa. “I stggle immensely wh beg queer a very ‘anti-gay’ space and have experienced an array of slurs, ” Cacciavillani said an email.

STUNTS ACROSS SEMOLE COUNTY WALKOUT TO PROTT FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

”Such unrstandg is much need, said Nile Crane, -print of the Gay-Straight Alliance at Wiregrass Ranch High Wley Chapel.

“It jt really showed how queer voic are overlooked and silenced, which is exactly what this ‘don’t say gay’ bill is dog, ” said Crane, who lled g out a stggle. ”Stunts om Blake High Tampa participate a walkout on Thursday, March 3, 2022, to prott the "don't say gay" bills beg nsired by the Florida Legislature.

Last week, Disney and s CEO Bob Chapek bungled their rponse to Florida’s ntroversial bill dubbed “Don’t Say Gay. More than 500 stunts at Wter Park High School Florida ma known on Monday that they do not agree wh the "Don't Say Gay" bill now unr nsiratn the state stunts walked out of school at 9 a.

SWFL STUNTS HOLD WALKOUT TO PROTT ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

Opponents of the measure say would further stigmatize gay, lbian, and transgenr youth.

Stunts chanted "We say gay! In the days sce The Walt Disney Company first me unr fire for givg money to the policians behd Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, CEO Bob Chapek has apologized for ially havg nothg to say, and he subsequently announced the rporatn’s plans to “pse” s polil donatns Florida for an untermed amount of time. ” The “Don’t Say Gay” bill effectively mak illegal for tors who teach krgarten through 3rd gra to at all discs queerns or queer people wh their stunts, even though the ncepts of sexual and genr inty are not actually tght at that level.

BREVARD STUNTS WALK OUT OF CLASS TO PROTT FLORIDA'S 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL

Teachers would siarly be barred om broachg the topics wh olr stunts unls the subject matter is emed “age-appropriate” or “velopmentally appropriate” ways that the bill do not, as the open letter pots out, origally suggted that one good way for Disney to rpond to real-world homophobic legislatn would be to ntue to tell and sell stori about fictnal queer characters.

Jt days after Chapek’s email, though, Pixar’s employe poted out how monplace is for queerns to be eded out durg the productn procs on the stud’s projects — so much so that often feels like outright anti-gay censorship. Policians volved the creatn or passage of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Beyond vowg not to give money to those specific policians, the anizers are also phg for Disney to “publicly m to an actnable plan that protects employe” based Florida om beg directly harmed by the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

SOUTH FLORIDA STUNTS HOLD WALKOUTS AGAST ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

Lol NewsBill would ban discsn on sexual orientatn, genr intySemole High School stunts walkout prott of Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill makg s way through the Florida Legislature. Acrdg to a Semole County Public Schools spokperson, stunt-led protts, varyg “by size and spe, ” were held on two middle school and ne high school mp to support the LGBTQ muny the face of HB 1557, nicknamed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by s tractors. – Stunts across southwt Florida walked out of class Thursday to prott Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill.

STUNTS ACROSS FLORIDA STAGE WALKOUTS PROTT OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LEGISLATN

RELATED STORY: ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill one step closer to ernor’s sk. Nicknamed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by crics, the Parental Rights Edutn bill bans enuragg discsns about genr inty or sexual orientatn primary schools and when is not “age appropriate.

Parents n sue if they feel their child’s school has vlated the thgs to know:About Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' genr discsns at schools billBin nounc 'Don't Say Gay' bill:Whe Hoe nounc Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' bill as 'hateful' after DeSantis backs Crics worry the bill will chill classroom discsns about LGBT people and make schools ls acceptg of LGBTQ stunts, pecially those not ready to e out to their fai, for whom schools might be the only safe space to discs the bill passed the Florida Hoe last Thursday and a siar measure has reached the Senate floor for a vote. Stunts at Melbourne High School held a prott before class for stunts who did not want to participate a full walkout, and Gay-Straight Alliance vice print Simone Hector said some members of the club did plan to go through wh a walkout.

– South Florida stunts held walkouts and protts agast Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill Thursday, which lawmakers passed earlier this week and which the ernor is expected to sign to law. Crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay Bill” bee of s language a particular paragraph, which specifi sexual and genr inty may not be lsons K through third gras. “Beg that zero, nada, none of our tors the entire state of Florida teach about sexual orientatn to any child k-3, the malic and absurd tent of the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill is evint, ” Uned Teachers of Da Print Karla Hernanz Mats said a statement.