Anti-gay misrmatn reverberat our natn’s schools. One of the biggt and most dangero li promoted is the claim that gay people n change their sexual orientatn through what is monly known as “ex-gay” or “nversn” therapy. Counter the false propaganda wh the most powerful tool at your disposal – facts.
Contents:
- FROM BOOK BANS TO 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL, LGBTQ KIDS FEEL 'ERASED' THE CLASSROOM
- FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'
- FIRST RSIA, THEN HUNGARY, NOW ROMANIA IS CONSIRG A 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW
FROM BOOK BANS TO 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL, LGBTQ KIDS FEEL 'ERASED' THE CLASSROOM
* gay propaganda in schools *
Stunts at a high school near Jacksonville, Florida, were acced several weeks ago of harassg classmat a Gay Straight Alliance club and stompg on pri flags.
“For me, when a teacher put up that sticker, basilly nveyed the msage that ‘when you e here, you will not be hated for who you love or what you intify as, ’” said Frsto, who is gay.
FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'
Romania is nsirg a bill that would ban mors om beg exposed to so-lled "gay propaganda" schools and public life, spe warngs om rights groups that would "fuel Rsian disrmatn mpaigns" and restate censorship. * gay propaganda in schools *
Frsto, who is the print of his school’s Gay Straight Alliance, or GSA, said the rabow stickers were removed overnight whout warng. “As a gay man wh no children and no real sire to have children, I feel like I should never know the nam of the people on the school board, let alone have to stand up agast them, ” said Zachary Goff of Newberg, who lnched the petn, which has gotten over 1, 000 signatur.
Newberg’s school board, stunt activists and teachers has been at loggerheads over the last two years over how to fight racism and homophobia wh the munty had already alt wh cints cludg a whe Newberg teacher who showed up to school blackface and a stunt who posted racial slurs and homophobic ments to a Snapchat group lled “Slave Tra. The next day, at a staff meetg, the lawsu said she told her employe “I don’t want any of you tellg stunts ’s ok to be gay or trans.
FIRST RSIA, THEN HUNGARY, NOW ROMANIA IS CONSIRG A 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW
But Mae’s Department of Edutn reports that between 13 percent and 18 percent of public high-school stunts say they’re “lbian, gay, bisexual or unsure” of their sexual inty. Spencer LystCourty Spencer LystSce the start of the school year, school officials stat across the untry have banned books about gay and trans experienc, removed LGBTQ-affirmg posters and flags and disband gay-straight alliance clubs.
In school districts throughout the natn, stunts have attacked their queer classmat, while state lawmakers have filed hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills wh many seekg to refe lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer stunts’ plac U. Courty Jennifer SolomonOn Monday, Solomon’s ernor, Republin Ron DeSantis, signaled that he would support a new piece of state legislatn — tled the Parental Rights Edutn bill, but dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — that would prohib the discsn of sexualy and genr inty schools.