Outcry as Geia lawmakers aim to pass Florida-style ‘don’t say gay’ bill | Geia | The Guardian

Contents:

• UPDATE: 2,500 GEIANS HELP BLOCK ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• GEIA REPUBLINS TRODUCE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL FOLLOWG PASSAGE OF FLORIDA LEGISLATN
• GEIA GOVERNOR TO VETO ANTI-GAY BILL AFTER HOLLYWOOD PRSURE
• OUTCRY AS GEIA LAWMAKERS AIM TO PASS FLORIDA-STYLE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• GEIA ERNOR VETO RELIG EEDOM BILL CRICIZED AS ANTI-GAY
• GEIA LEGISLATORS TRODUCE A FLORIDA-STYLE 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

UPDATE: 2,500 GEIANS HELP BLOCK ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

The ACLU of Geia works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, & queer people belong everywhere and n live openly and thentilly whout discrimatn, harassment, or vlence. The same day the Florida Legislature passed s ntroversial "don't say gay" bill, siar legislatn was filed the Geia State Assembly. "No private or nonpublic school or program to which this chapter appli shall promote, pel, or enurage classroom discsn of sexual orientatn or genr inty primary gra levels or a manner that is not appropriate for the age and velopmental stage of the stunt, " the bill 's the language that appeared early drafts of Florida's "don't say gay" bill.

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GEIA REPUBLINS TRODUCE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL FOLLOWG PASSAGE OF FLORIDA LEGISLATN

” Geia’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, SB 613, died mtee earlier this year. Unfortunately, a bill troduced by Democrats to prohib the e of the gay and trans panic fens also died mtee.

This trend is exemplified by versns of the “Don’t Say Gay” and “Cril Race Theory” bills sweepg across nservative stat.

Siar techniqu also proved succsful earlier this year by stoppg Geia’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which would have ntrolled and severely limed discsn of LGBTQ topics public schools. Bee SB 613, the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, was not voted on by the full Senate, is ad for the year!

GEIA GOVERNOR TO VETO ANTI-GAY BILL AFTER HOLLYWOOD PRSURE

Doraville Cy Council member Stephe Koontz, Geia's only elected official who is openly transgenr, led the charge for that cy's nondiscrimatn law after she saw a 2018 news story on a metro Atlanta landspg pany that ced relig beliefs to refe service to a gay uple. Found 1995, Geia Equaly is the state’s largt advocy anizatn workg to advance fairns, safety, and opportuny for Geia’s lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr cizens. HistoryHomosexual activy Geia?

Homosexual activy Geia is legal. Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Geia? This long-nng bate seemgly culmated March 2016 wh the passage – and ultimate veto – of HB 757, a so-lled “First Amendment Defense Act” that would have allowed bs and some taxpayer-fund anizatns to ny servic to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, if servg them nflicted wh a eply held relig belief.

OUTCRY AS GEIA LAWMAKERS AIM TO PASS FLORIDA-STYLE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

Republin legislators Geia have troduced a measure to rtrict private school classroom discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty, echog siar language a recently passed legislatn Florida wily rid as the “Don’t Say Gay” the “Common Humany Private Edutn Act”, sponsored by a group of GOP state legislators, private schools and programm Geia would not be allowed to “promote, pel, or enurage classroom discsn of sexual orientatn or genr inty primary gra levels or a manner that is not appropriate for the age and velopmental stage of the stunt. Geia Governor Nathan Deal said he plans to veto the ntroversial relig liberty bill which crics ntend is anti-gay legislatn.

GEIA ERNOR VETO RELIG EEDOM BILL CRICIZED AS ANTI-GAY

LGBTQ rights groups like the Human Rights Campaign and GLAAD also cried the bill as anti-gay legislatn. Geia lawmakers are tryg to pass a bill that would ban discsns of genr inty and sexual orientatn private schools, troducg the measure the same day the Florida senate passed s so-lled “don’t say gay” Geia’s new bill, the Common Humany Private Edutn Act, no private school classroom would be able to “promote, pel, or enurage classroom discsn of sexual orientatn or genr inty primary gra levels or a manner that is not appropriate for the age and velopmental stage of the stunt, ” reported NBC. Current discsns of the bill uld also set the stage for more ser nsiratn next addn to Florida and Geia, several other stat have troduced or passed bills recent months margalizg LGBTQ+ Iowa ernor, Kim Reynolds, signed a bill last Thursday that banned trans girls and women om participatg high school and llege athletics, spe arguments that the bill was discrimatory and targeted a non-existent Tennsee, Republins advanced legislatn on Tuday that would ban public schools om g textbooks that “promote, normalize, support or addrs LGBT issu or liftyl” K-12 classrooms, reported the Associated Republins troduced a bill last month that would make a class B mismeanor to teach classroom materials on “homosexualy”, changg the state’s current obsceny laws, reports NBC.

Nathan Deal (R) on Monday vetoed a ntroversial relig liberti bill that had provoked outrage om Hollywood, sports leagu and rporatns for what crics said was s discrimatn agast gay and transgenr people. Deal, who had already exprsed disfort wh the measure, me unr enormo prsure to veto the bill after the Natnal Football League suggted might pass over Atlanta for future Super Bowls, and leadg Hollywood figur threatened to pull productn om the cisn drew immediate praise om gay rights groups.

GEIA LEGISLATORS TRODUCE A FLORIDA-STYLE 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

Geia is not the only state ntendg wh a backlash over legislatn nsired anti-gay. North Carola last week enacted a law reversg civil rights protectns for gay and transgenr people that had been passed Charlotte and requir transgenr people to e rtrooms that rrpond wh their genrs on their birth certifit.

Pat McCrory (R) on the same day, also provoked cricism om bs and sports leagu, cludg the Natnal Basketball Associatn, which threatened to move next year’s All-Star game out of the Monday, the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn and gay rights groups announced that they planned to file su on behalf of several anizatns and dividuals who say they will be harmed by the North Carola signed to law, the Geia bill would have allowed pastors to opt out of performg same-sex weddgs and would have given relig anizatns the abily to refe certa servic, cludg charable servic, if dog so clashed wh their relig beliefs.

Rights groups, however, ntend that the measure sentially legalized discrimatn by givg anizatns that receive taxpayer fundg the abily to ny employment to gay and transgenr people. Perhaps most signifint was a backlash om the movie dtry, which gets signifint tax creds to film productns the state and ntributed some $6 billn to the state’s enomy durg the last fisl his remarks, Deal did not refer to gay rights but rather argued that the measure was sentially a solutn search of a problem. ”The bill was troduced the same day the Florida Senate passed the Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by s crics, which would lim discsns about LGBTQ issu at school.