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• FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT BANS BOOK ABOUT REAL-LIFE GAY PENGU RELATNSHIP, CG PARENTAL RIGHTS LAW
• FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT BANS BOOK ABOUT ADORABLE GAY PENGUS UNR VILE DON’T SAY GAY LAW
• FLORIDA UNTY BANS KIDS' BOOK ABOUT GAY PENGUS
• RON DESANTIS'S FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN: HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE “PERSONAL BENEF” OF BEG A SLAVE?FLORIDA’S NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS WILL FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 20, 2023RON DESANTIS SPEAKS DURG A MPAIGN EVENT IOWA JULY 14.RACHEL MUMMEY/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS’S WAR ON “WOKENS” SCHOOLS ASCEND TO DANGERO NEW HEIGHTS WEDNDAY, AS FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF EDUTN APPROVED NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS THAT, AMONG OTHER THGS, WOULD FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY — A WHEWASHG OF HISTORY THAT THE STATE’S LARGT TEACHERS UNN CRIED AS A “BIG STEP BACKWARD” FOR TN.“GOV. DESANTIS IS PURSUG A POLIL AGENDA GUARANTEED TO SET GOOD PEOPLE AGAST ONE ANOTHER, AND THE PROCS HE’S CHEATG OUR KIDS,” ANDREW SPAR, PRINT OF THE FLORIDA EDUTN ASSOCIATN, SAID A STATEMENT BLASTG THE NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI STANDARDS. “THEY SERVE THE FULL TTH OF AMERIN HISTORY, THE GOOD AND THE BAD.”FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS MAY NOT GET THAT UNR THE NEW L APPROVED WEDNDAY, WHICH REQUIRE TEACHERS— A SECTN ON SLAVERY— TO NOTE THAT “SLAV VELOPED SKILLS, WHICH, SOME STANC, ULD BE APPLIED FOR THEIR PERSONAL BENEF.” IN A SECTN ON “RENSTCTN AND BEYOND,” A PERD MARKED BY JIM CROW AND ROUTE WHE TERRORISM ON BLACK MUNI, THE NEW L DICTATE THAT STUNTS MT BE TGHT ABOUT “ACTS OF VLENCE PERPETRATED AGAST AND BY AIN AMERINS,” WHICH, AS DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR GERALDE THOMPSON POTED OUT, SUGGTS CINTS LIKE THE OEE MASSACRE WERE “SPARKED BY VLENCE OM AIN AMERINS.”“THAT’S BLAMG THE VICTIMS,” SAID THOMPSON, WHO, AS THE WASHGTON POST NOT, HELPED PASS A 2020 LAW REQUIRG FLORIDA SCHOOLS TO TEACH ABOUT THE 1920 MASSACRE, WHICH A WHE MOB KILLED DOZENS OF BLACK RINTS OF OEE, FLORIDA, ELECTN DAY VLENCE. (MANNY DIAZ, FLORIDA'S TN MISSNER, PRAISED THE CHANG, SAYG THAT “THIS IS SOMETHG THAT IS GOG TO SET THE NORM FOR STANDARDS OTHER STAT.”)TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE NEW STANDARDS E AS DESANTIS, A NTENR FOR THE 2024 REPUBLIN NOMATN, LAT HIS WAR ON SO-LLED “WOKE” TN, WHICH HAS CLUD BOOK BANS, THE REJECTN OF AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT URSE ON AIN AMERIN STUDI, AND THE PASSAGE OF THE STOP WOKE ACT, WHICH PROHIBS THE STCTN OF MATERIAL THAT ULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL “GUILT, ANGUISH OR ANY FORM OF PSYCHOLOGIL STRS.” HIS NCERN FOR THE POSSIBLE “ANGUISH” OF FLORIDA STUNTS DO NOT SEEM TO EXTEND TO BLACK STUNTS, WHO ULD BE FORCED TO LEARN ABOUT THE SUPPOSED “BENEF” OF SLAVERY, NOR DO SEEM TO EXTEND TO LGBTQ KIDS AND THEIR FAI, WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN TARGETED HIS BATTLE. DESANTIS EXPAND HIS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THIS YEAR, AND THE FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN VOTED WEDNDAY FOR L THAT TOOK EVEN FURTHER — CLUDG BY BARRG TEACHERS OM ASKG STUNTS THEIR PREFERRED PRONOUNS. DIAZ SAID THE MOVE WOULD PROTECT KIDS OM “UNWELE FLUENC AND DOCTRATN," PRAISG DESANTIS, THE LEGISLATN, AND THE BOARD FOR WHAT HE SCRIBED A STATEMENT AS THEIR “UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE HEALTH, WELLBEG AND SAFETY OF OUR STUNTS.” BUT, AS CRICS CHARGED, THE L NSTUTED AN LATN THE “POLILLY-MOTIVATED WAR ON PARENTS, STUNTS, AND TORS” FLORIDA. “OUR STUNTS SERVE CLASSROOMS WHERE ALL FAI ARE TREATED WH THE RPECT THEY SERVE AND ALL YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WELED,” JENNIFER SOLOMON, EQUALY FLORIDA PARENTS & FAI SUPPORT MANAGER, SAID A STATEMENT WEDNDAY. “INSTEAD, THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN NTU TO WIELD THE STATE AGAST .”“STOP TURNG OUR KIDS’ CLASSROOMS TO POLIL BATTLEFIELDS TO SRE CHEAP POTS,” SOLOMON NTUED.BUT DESANTIS, OF URSE, SHOWS NO SIGN OF STOPPG: HIS RELENTLS CULTURE WAR HELPED LIFT HIM TO NATNAL PROMENCE, AND HE HAS MA HIS CENTRAL — NAY, HIS ONLY — PCH TO GOP VOTERS HIS SPUTTERG PRINTIAL MPAIGN. “WE’VE MA THE STATE OF FLORIDA THE PLACE WHERE WOKE GO TO DIE,” HE SAID AT A RECENT MPAIGN EVENT. “AND NOW, IS OUR MISSN AS AMERINS TO ENSURE THAT JANUARY 2025…WE LEAVE WOKE IOLOGY THE DTB OF HISTORY WHERE BELONGS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHERIC LUTZ
• AUTHORS OF GAY PENGU BOOK BANNED FLORIDA SCHOOL SUE OVER DON’T SAY GAY LAW
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• THIS CHILDREN’S BOOK ABOUT GAY PENGUS IS FIGHTG A BAN FLORIDA
• FLORIDA COUNTY BANS BOOK ON GAY PENGUS, CG “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW

FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT BANS BOOK ABOUT REAL-LIFE GAY PENGU RELATNSHIP, CG PARENTAL RIGHTS LAW

In phg this year to expand Florida’s so-lled “Parental Rights” bill, the one crics have dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” sce censors materials that mentn sexual orientatn, sponsor Clay Yarborough got on the floor of the Florida Senate and said he simply wanted to stop pornographic filth om beg hand out public schools. It also not that, sce state lawmakers recently expand their “Don’t Say Gay” law, the thors expect the book to be banned for middle-schoolers as well as of July 1. In Leon County, a mother has challenged a children’s book about tennis legend Billie Jean Kg that mentns Kg is gay.

Florida Hoe Bill 1557 "Parental Rights Edutn, " which was dubbed by crics as the "don't say gay" bill. The Lake County School District removed And Tango Mak Three om classrooms bee of Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law. A Florida school district has banned an adorable book about the te story of a same-sex pengu uple raisg a baby chick rponse to the state’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law.

FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT BANS BOOK ABOUT ADORABLE GAY PENGUS UNR VILE DON’T SAY GAY LAW

However, Lake County School District removed the book, by thors Jt Richardson and Peter Parnell, om s classrooms and school librari bee they believe falls foul of the state’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law. Other tl clud A Day the Life of Marlon Bundo (a tale about a gay bunny) and In Our Mothers’ Hoe (a story about three kids wh two mums).

FLORIDA UNTY BANS KIDS' BOOK ABOUT GAY PENGUS

The school district claimed the removal of the books was required “due to ntent regardg sexual orientatn/genr intifitn prohibed” the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law.

Advot have nmned Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law for silencg classroom discsns on LGBTQ+ people and inti. Other unti Florida also barred LGBTQ-themed books om circulatn, cg the state’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law. Siar books ntag LGBTQ+ characters or them were removed om classrooms and school librari Manatee County, also bee of the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law.

An award-wng book about the te story of a same-sex pengu uple raisg a chick has been banned by a Florida school district rponse to the state's "don't say gay" 2005 book And Tango Mak Three by Jt Richardson and Peter Parnell was one of three books reportedly removed om the librari and classrooms of the Lake County School District central Florida. Acrdg to Popular Informatn, the board said the tl were "admistratively removed due to ntent regardg sexual orientatn/genr intifitn prohibed HB 1557, " otherwise known as the Parental Rights Edutn Act -- the so-lled "don't say gay" the book do not nta any discsn of same-sex sexual relatns or stctn, do tell the real-life story of two male chstrap pengus who habate and raised a pengu chick together. Fay Magaze Bt Books of the Year, Bank Street Bt Books of the Year, and was also a Lambda Lerary Award Falist among Florida school districts are also banng or rtrictg books wh LGBTQ+ ntent, cg pliance wh the "don't say gay" law.

RON DESANTIS'S FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN: HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE “PERSONAL BENEF” OF BEG A SLAVE?FLORIDA’S NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS WILL FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 20, 2023RON DESANTIS SPEAKS DURG A MPAIGN EVENT IOWA JULY 14.RACHEL MUMMEY/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS’S WAR ON “WOKENS” SCHOOLS ASCEND TO DANGERO NEW HEIGHTS WEDNDAY, AS FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF EDUTN APPROVED NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS THAT, AMONG OTHER THGS, WOULD FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY — A WHEWASHG OF HISTORY THAT THE STATE’S LARGT TEACHERS UNN CRIED AS A “BIG STEP BACKWARD” FOR TN.“GOV. DESANTIS IS PURSUG A POLIL AGENDA GUARANTEED TO SET GOOD PEOPLE AGAST ONE ANOTHER, AND THE PROCS HE’S CHEATG OUR KIDS,” ANDREW SPAR, PRINT OF THE FLORIDA EDUTN ASSOCIATN, SAID A STATEMENT BLASTG THE NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI STANDARDS. “THEY SERVE THE FULL TTH OF AMERIN HISTORY, THE GOOD AND THE BAD.”FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS MAY NOT GET THAT UNR THE NEW L APPROVED WEDNDAY, WHICH REQUIRE TEACHERS— A SECTN ON SLAVERY— TO NOTE THAT “SLAV VELOPED SKILLS, WHICH, SOME STANC, ULD BE APPLIED FOR THEIR PERSONAL BENEF.” IN A SECTN ON “RENSTCTN AND BEYOND,” A PERD MARKED BY JIM CROW AND ROUTE WHE TERRORISM ON BLACK MUNI, THE NEW L DICTATE THAT STUNTS MT BE TGHT ABOUT “ACTS OF VLENCE PERPETRATED AGAST AND BY AIN AMERINS,” WHICH, AS DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR GERALDE THOMPSON POTED OUT, SUGGTS CINTS LIKE THE OEE MASSACRE WERE “SPARKED BY VLENCE OM AIN AMERINS.”“THAT’S BLAMG THE VICTIMS,” SAID THOMPSON, WHO, AS THE WASHGTON POST NOT, HELPED PASS A 2020 LAW REQUIRG FLORIDA SCHOOLS TO TEACH ABOUT THE 1920 MASSACRE, WHICH A WHE MOB KILLED DOZENS OF BLACK RINTS OF OEE, FLORIDA, ELECTN DAY VLENCE. (MANNY DIAZ, FLORIDA'S TN MISSNER, PRAISED THE CHANG, SAYG THAT “THIS IS SOMETHG THAT IS GOG TO SET THE NORM FOR STANDARDS OTHER STAT.”)TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE NEW STANDARDS E AS DESANTIS, A NTENR FOR THE 2024 REPUBLIN NOMATN, LAT HIS WAR ON SO-LLED “WOKE” TN, WHICH HAS CLUD BOOK BANS, THE REJECTN OF AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT URSE ON AIN AMERIN STUDI, AND THE PASSAGE OF THE STOP WOKE ACT, WHICH PROHIBS THE STCTN OF MATERIAL THAT ULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL “GUILT, ANGUISH OR ANY FORM OF PSYCHOLOGIL STRS.” HIS NCERN FOR THE POSSIBLE “ANGUISH” OF FLORIDA STUNTS DO NOT SEEM TO EXTEND TO BLACK STUNTS, WHO ULD BE FORCED TO LEARN ABOUT THE SUPPOSED “BENEF” OF SLAVERY, NOR DO SEEM TO EXTEND TO LGBTQ KIDS AND THEIR FAI, WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN TARGETED HIS BATTLE. DESANTIS EXPAND HIS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THIS YEAR, AND THE FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN VOTED WEDNDAY FOR L THAT TOOK EVEN FURTHER — CLUDG BY BARRG TEACHERS OM ASKG STUNTS THEIR PREFERRED PRONOUNS. DIAZ SAID THE MOVE WOULD PROTECT KIDS OM “UNWELE FLUENC AND DOCTRATN," PRAISG DESANTIS, THE LEGISLATN, AND THE BOARD FOR WHAT HE SCRIBED A STATEMENT AS THEIR “UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE HEALTH, WELLBEG AND SAFETY OF OUR STUNTS.” BUT, AS CRICS CHARGED, THE L NSTUTED AN LATN THE “POLILLY-MOTIVATED WAR ON PARENTS, STUNTS, AND TORS” FLORIDA. “OUR STUNTS SERVE CLASSROOMS WHERE ALL FAI ARE TREATED WH THE RPECT THEY SERVE AND ALL YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WELED,” JENNIFER SOLOMON, EQUALY FLORIDA PARENTS & FAI SUPPORT MANAGER, SAID A STATEMENT WEDNDAY. “INSTEAD, THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN NTU TO WIELD THE STATE AGAST .”“STOP TURNG OUR KIDS’ CLASSROOMS TO POLIL BATTLEFIELDS TO SRE CHEAP POTS,” SOLOMON NTUED.BUT DESANTIS, OF URSE, SHOWS NO SIGN OF STOPPG: HIS RELENTLS CULTURE WAR HELPED LIFT HIM TO NATNAL PROMENCE, AND HE HAS MA HIS CENTRAL — NAY, HIS ONLY — PCH TO GOP VOTERS HIS SPUTTERG PRINTIAL MPAIGN. “WE’VE MA THE STATE OF FLORIDA THE PLACE WHERE WOKE GO TO DIE,” HE SAID AT A RECENT MPAIGN EVENT. “AND NOW, IS OUR MISSN AS AMERINS TO ENSURE THAT JANUARY 2025…WE LEAVE WOKE IOLOGY THE DTB OF HISTORY WHERE BELONGS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHERIC LUTZ

District Court for the Middle District of Owens, a spokperson for the unty school district, said the unty uldn't ment on active ligatn but that the book was rtricted due to the Parental Rights Edutn Law, dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by crics, which prohibed stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty up to the third gra. Platiffs seek end to discrimatory book bansThe district's cg of the "Don't Say Gay" law, which Gov. Ron DeSantis signed last year, is why the su nam as fendants not only the Lake County School Board and Supertennt Diane Kornegay, but also state Edutn Commissner Manny Diaz Jr.

And State Board of Edutn platiffs, who are reprented by the law firms Selendy Gay Elsberg and Kenny Nachwalter, say they're sug to "vdite their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights and to stop the abhorrent and discrimatory practice of rtrictg accs to books based on partisan, non-pedagogil motivatns. "If Lake County Schools were not engagg viewpot discrimatn, then would not have limed s rtrictn of books to those exclively featurg LGBTQ+ characters or discsg LGBTQ+-related ntent, " the platiffs sug say they believe "And Tango Mak Three" will be "immently" blocked higher gra levels, cg legislatn DeSantis recently signed expandg the "Don't Say Gay" law rtrictns om third to eighth gra. And 's not jt bee of the "Don't Say Gay" law.

AUTHORS OF GAY PENGU BOOK BANNED FLORIDA SCHOOL SUE OVER DON’T SAY GAY LAW

Florida Republin Governor Ron DeSantis claimed his “Don’t Say Gay” law only applied to “classroom stctn” krgarten through third gra, and only prohibed “sexual stctn, ” but his Dept. The award-wng children’s book is based on the te story of two gay male Central Park Zoo pengus who adopt an egg and raise the baby pengu as their is nothg sexual about the book. Popular Informatn quot DeSantis fendg his discrimatory “Don’t Say Gay” law, officially tled the Parental Rights Edutn Act.

”READ MORE: 18 Attorneys General Blast Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Law as UnnstutnalThere is nothg sexual about two male pengus raisg a baby pengu.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

”READ MORE: Florida ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Author Indicted on Feral Frd Charg: DOJIt’s not jt Lake County. ”Read the entire Popular Informatn report MORE: Florida Father Su School for ‘Proselytizg’ Favor of ‘Homosexual Liftyl’ Unr DeSantis Don’t Say Gay LawFrom Your Se ArticlHigh school teacher forced to remove 'COEXIST' flag as Ron DeSantis celebrat 'Don’t Say Gay' law ›The vague prohibns Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' law are 'guaranteed to be a lawsu factory': lumnist ›Author of Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' bill dicted for d ›'Fear is not eedom': Centenarian shreds Florida book bans as Nazi behavr - ›Top LGBTQ Organizatn: 'Florida may not be a safe place to move or vis' - ›Related Articl Around the WebThe Dangero Consequenc of Florida's "Don't Say Gay" Bill on... ›As Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' law tak effect, schools roll out LGBTQ...

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DeSantis expand his “Don’t Say Gay” law this year, and the Florida Board of Edutn voted Wednday for l that took even further — cludg by barrg teachers om askg stunts their preferred pronouns.

THIS CHILDREN’S BOOK ABOUT GAY PENGUS IS FIGHTG A BAN FLORIDA

“They’re jt ntug the fear mongerg om ssn, ” says Jon Harris Mrer, public policy director for Equaly Florida, scribg 2023 legislative chang that fall squarely to the more-of-the-same-homophobic-nonsense tegory.

DeSantis support of anti-gay vio lled bad strategy, worse msage. A provisn that would extend the famo “Don’t Say Gay” provisns to middle schools.

FLORIDA COUNTY BANS BOOK ON GAY PENGUS, CG “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW

Florida needs more public officials to fd the urage to stand up to Florida’s self-signated emperor and say “Governor, for someone so foced on ‘Don’t Say Gay, ’ you sure seem to brg up a lot. But also go further by askg a feral urt to clare that two tn laws celebrated by state Republins, the 2022 parental rights bill labeled “Don’t Say Gay” by opponents and s expansn passed earlier this year, are unnstutnal and should be overturned for spawng the “abhorrent and discrimatory practice of rtrictg accs to books based on partisan” motivatns.

The thors of a children’s book about the te story of a same-sex pengu uple raisg a baby chick are sug a Florida school district for banng the book unr the state’s Don’t Say Gay law. The book was banned acrdance wh the state’s wily-cricised Don’t Say Gay law, which prohibs classroom discsn of LGBTQ+ issu and has already led to censorship of school plays ntag queer characters.