In some stat, versns of ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bills have been around for awhile | PBS NewsHour

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• ALASKA NIED PERMANENT FUND DIVINDS TO GAY UPL SPE URT LGS
• THE ALASKA MEMO BY MATT BUXTONSUBSCRIBESIGN {"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","URL":","MAENTYOFPAGE":","HEADLE":"DAY 51: DUNLEAVY'S DON'T SAY 'DON'T SAY GAY BILL' BILL","SCRIPTN":"TURNS OUT THE REPORTS OF DUNLEAVY\U2019S MORATN ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED.","IMAGE":[{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":"}],"DATEPUBLISHED":"2023-03-08T18:34:17+00:00","DATEMODIFIED":"2023-03-08T18:34:17+00:00","ISACCSIBLEFORFREE":TE,"THOR":[{"@TYPE":"PERSON","NAME":"MATT ACU\U00F1A BUXTON","URL":","SCRIPTN":"EDOR OF @MIDNIGHT_SUN_AK. (FORMERLY @FDNMPOLICS) HKER. WWE MARK. #AKLEG TWEETER AND GIFFER. \NVIO GAM: @THE_INDOORS. ","INTIFIER":"ER:25091884","SAMEAS":["],"IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"}}],"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"THE ALASKA MEMO BY MATT BUXTON","URL":","SCRIPTN":"ALASKA POLIL NEWS, ANALYSIS, REPS AND MENTARY. \NHIGH GEAR DURG THE SSN, MELLOW DURG THE TERIM.","TERACTNSTATISTIC":{"@TYPE":"INTERACTNCOUNTER","NAME":"SUBSCRIBERS","TERACTNTYPE":","ERINTERACTNCOUNT":1000},"INTIFIER":"PUB:262445","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"SAMEAS":["]}}SHARE THIS POSTDAY 51: DUNLEAVY'S DON'T SAY 'DON'T SAY GAY BILL' COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHERDAY 51: DUNLEAVY'S DON'T SAY 'DON'T SAY GAY BILL' BILL
• WHAT A NATNAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD MEAN FOR TN
• ANTI-GAY PROTTS HELD AGAST BOTSWANA LGBTQ BILL
• GAY ALASKA TRAVEL GUI
• IT’S NOT JT FLORIDA. 15 OTHER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’-STYLE BILLS ARE CROPPG UP NATNWI
• IN SOME STAT, VERSNS OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR AWHILE
• NOT JT FLORIDA. MORE THAN A DOZEN STAT PROPOSE SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILLS

ALASKA NIED PERMANENT FUND DIVINDS TO GAY UPL SPE URT LGS

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska wrongly nied some same-sex spo benefs for years by claimg their unns were not regnized even after urts stck down gay marriage bans, urt documents obtaed by The Associated Prs show. “It seems like none of them all the way up to the director unrstood that this was a permanent junctn, meang if you enforce the law after this date, you’re vlatn of a urt orr and you’re vlatg people’s rights, ” said Anchorage attorney Cal Shortell, one of the lawyers who succsfully sued to overturn the state’s ban on gay marriage and later filed the lawsu on behalf of Smh.

The emails show employe disregard a 2017 orr om a puty revenue missner to stop nyg checks to same-sex spo, that efforts were ma to keep rrect language about the state not regnizg gay marriage s lerature and that s puter system was programmed to reference the unenforceable state statute form nial letters. It leted language om the state webse promisg equal protectns for transgenr and gay Alaskans agast most tegori of discrimatn, and began refg to vtigate plats. She soon rigned, followed by the missn chairman, a gay Black man.

As a Harvard Law stunt, Tshibaka wrote support of an anizatn that advoted for gay nversn therapy, statg that “unlike race or genr, homosexualy is a choice. • • •State law do not explicly offer civil rights protectn to gay and transgenr unr feral law, Tle VII of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 “prohibs employment discrimatn based on race, lor, relign, sex and natnal orig. Nakasato had been part of an effort 2016 to try and nvce the Alaska Legislature, unsuccsfully, to change state law to enshre civil rights protectns for gay and transgenr people so that the missn wouldn’t have to rely on the whims of judg.

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“I was one of those ltle gay kids that nsired killg themselv, livg a ral area, who believ that they were the weirst person on earth. Clayton County, which protects employe om discrimatn bee they are gay or transgenr.

It jt don’t make sense” said Andrew Gray, an openly gay East Anchorage Democrat and a -sponsor of the Hoe bill.

If I lose my job bee I’m gay, I uld bee a dra on state rourc, ” said Alex Berry, an Anchorage rint. ”Joshua Smh, an Air Force veteran who is gay, said he did not clu his partner when he bought his home, out of fear he would face discrimatn.

WHAT A NATNAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD MEAN FOR TN

Mike Dunleavy unveiled a ntroversial “parental rights” bill that would lim LGBTQ polici Alaska schools, lawmakers began to ht at the battle that Andrew Gray broke to tears on the Hoe floor as he scribed how the bill uld impact gay kids whose sexual orientatn is rejected by their parents — as he had experienced growg bill “hurts children, specifilly genr non-nformg children like I once was, ” said Gray, D-Anchorage, who is gay. ”Dunleavy has sisted his bill would not sgle out gay or transgenr children.

Shortell said the bill is the latt chapter the state’s long history of discrimatn agast LGBTQ people: The state dropped a policy last year banng discrimatn agast LGBTQ dividuals, Attorney General Treg Taylor last year joed a lawsu challengg USDA’s prohibn of LGBTQ discrimatn; the state fought to protect s ban on gay marriage a ago; and the state ntued to ny Permanent Fund divinds to same-sex spo spe a urt orr to the ntrary. (Marc Lter / ADN) Dunleavy nied Tuday that his bill was moled after legislatn Florida that banned sex tn for gra school stunts and earned the name “don’t say gay” bill bee lims teachers’ abily to discs LGBTQ issu.

(Ron) DeSantis and many other stat are advancg this kd of legislatn, ” said Mnery, addg that he spoke wh Dunleavy about the measur the bill before was proposed and tends to ph for s O’Hara-Jolley, Alaska state director for Planned Parenthood Alliance Advot, said the Alaska bill go farther than Florida’s so-lled “don’t say gay” bill bee addn to banng discsn of sexual orientatn before fourth gra, also targets transgenr kids’ abily to select the pronouns they want to e and their accs to bathrooms by forcg them to e bathrooms that align wh their sex assigned at birth. “This is worse than Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill. Dunleavy has troduced a don’t BE gay (or trans) bill, ” the group wrote a social media post.

ANTI-GAY PROTTS HELD AGAST BOTSWANA LGBTQ BILL

Mike Dunleavy went ahead and dragged the state to the right-wg culture wars wh an tn bill that looks a lot like Florida’s notor Don’t Say Gay bill.

GAY ALASKA TRAVEL GUI

This would, stead, require parents to opt their children to sex ed class, teen datg vlence class, sexual abe awarens class or to anythg where sex or genr inty may be discsed… which means likely jt will never be discsed bee of the loomg risk of asked about the clear parisons between his legislatn and Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill, Dunleavy said that he was “workg on the issu” well before Florida Republin Gov. Dunleavy fir latt shot right-wg war on sex ed, LGBTQ kidsJune Empire: Governor propos ‘don’t say gay’-style law, year-end teacher bonFrom KTUU: New tn bills unveiled by Gov.

Parents would be allowed to file a lawsu agast any public or private enty that feral funds to display or facilate ntent featurg LGBTQ an agency or anizatn vlat the rtrictns more than once a five-year perd, uld lose accs to feral funds for three years, acrdg to the bill specifilly mentns drag shows, which have been the recent target of cricism by nservative groups advotg for laws such as this prott ont of Florida State Senator Ileana Garcia's office after the passage of the Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by LGBTQ activists Miami, March 09, Raedle/Getty Imag, FILEProposed bill prompts cricismThe bill sparked immediate backlash om some LGBTQ people and activists across the untry, who say this legislatn misreprents the inti as herently sexual, shameful or assert that this kd of legislatn will silence and harm LGBTQ teachers and stunts, while stigmatizg the muny and threateng ferally fund programs on cln. "A feral 'Don't Say Gay or Trans' bill – moled after the ntroversial discrimatory law Florida and aimg to drive LGBTQ+ fai and teachers out of the tn system – is their latt cel attempt to stigmatize and margalize the muny, not an attempt to solve actual problems but only to rile up their extremist base, " said David Stacy, the ernment affairs director of LGBTQ advocy group Human Rights Campaign.

Supporters rally to ph back agast the so-lled "Don't Say Gay" at the Pri Center Wilton Manors, Fla., Feb. Several stat have followed Florida's lead, cludg Alabama, which has implemented so-lled "Don't Say Gay" polici of s own. "Now, followg the lg that the two sectns the penal s mt be leted, we know very well and we felt that is gog to legalise homosexualy.

IT’S NOT JT FLORIDA. 15 OTHER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’-STYLE BILLS ARE CROPPG UP NATNWI

”In Florida, a bill passed last year earned the moniker “don’t say gay” bill bee of s lims on teachers’ abily to talk about LGBTQ issu schools. “Any ia that this is a ‘don’t say gay’ bill or this is anti-anythg — ’s not. To some may seem like thgs are changg fast, but Alaska’s fight for gay rights began half a lifetime ago.

In 1982, the board members were movg out of the Alaska Gay & Lbian Rource Center, which closed down.

He had served the Vietnam War and ma a iend who was gay.

IN SOME STAT, VERSNS OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR AWHILE

In 1989 through an LGBT advocy group, rearchers Melissa Green and Jay Brse published a statewi survey documentg the experienc of Alaska’s lbian and gay muny, cludg issu of discrimatn and health. “Nobody really red— outsi of the [lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr] muny, nobody really red. In 1986, the Anchorage Daily News terviewed a gay man workg at Inty, Inc., an advocy anizatn.

NOT JT FLORIDA. MORE THAN A DOZEN STAT PROPOSE SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILLS

He was llectg vlent and homophobic voice mail the office received for a rearch report on gay and lbian discrimatn.

Durg the same year the ADN published the story, he terned wh the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force D. He paid for beg a proment gay figure the 80s and 90s more ways. Mike Dunleavy unveiled a ntroversial "parental rights" bill that would lim LGBTQ polici Alaska schools, lawmakers began to ht at the battle that Andrew Gray broke to tears on the Hoe floor as he scribed how the bill uld impact gay kids whose sexual orientatn is rejected by their parents — as he had experienced growg bill "hurts children, specifilly genr non-nformg children like I once was, " said Gray, D- Anchorage, who is gay.

"Dunleavy has sisted his bill would not sgle out gay or transgenr children. Shortell said the bill is the latt chapter the state's long history of discrimatn agast LGBTQ people: The state dropped a policy last year banng discrimatn agast LGBTQ dividuals, Attorney General Treg Taylor last year joed a lawsu challengg USDA's prohibn of LGBTQ discrimatn; the state fought to protect s ban on gay marriage a ago; and the state ntued to ny Permanent Fund divinds to same-sex spo spe a urt orr to the ntrary.