Florida’s first openly gay state senator on ‘Don’t Say Gay’ passg: ‘the air was taken out of the room’ – The Hill

Contents:

• IS LDSEY GRAHAM GAY OR DO HE HAVE WIFE? RELATNSHIP WH SYLVIA
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE
• REPUBLIN SENATOR ATTEND HIS GAY SON'S WEDDG DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST BILL TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
• FORMER REPUBLIN NGRSMAN SAYS HE’S GAY, REGRETS ANTI-GAY STANC
• FLORIDA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STATE SENATOR ON ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PASSG: ‘THE AIR WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE ROOM’
• HOMOPHOBIC POLICIAN RIGNS AFTER GETTG BTED AT GAY SEX PARTY DURG LOCKDOWN
• THE OUTG OF 'LADY G': HUIATG A CLOSETED GAY REPUBLIN THE NAME OF LGBT RIGHTS

IS LDSEY GRAHAM GAY OR DO HE HAVE WIFE? RELATNSHIP WH SYLVIA

Is Ldsey Graham gay? Is Ldsey Graham Gay? Contrary to the speculatn, Ldsey Graham is not gay.

Ldsey Graham is not gay and has dated women the past.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

Some have speculated that he may be gay due to his unmarried stat. Com Out As Gay. Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen jt me out as gay...

LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE

A lbian uple who lnched a legal battle over equali IVF treatment between heterosexual and same-sex upl have dropped their fight after their lol re board pledged to make treatment sts media fluencers Megan and Whney Ban-Evans lnched a landmark “gay tax” discrimatn se after NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board (ICB) said same-sex upl, sgle women and upl unable to have vagal terurse would have to pay for 12 rounds of IVF before qualifyg for NHS assistance.

Republin Senator Glenn Thompson attend his gay son’s weddg jt days after votg agast a bill to protect gay marriage.

Incintally, jt three days later on that Friday night, Senator Thompson was actually attendance at a gay weddg and even ma a speech support of his lawmaker, ntroversially got up to give his ‘blsg’ for their marriage. ”Ah y, no better way to root for their gay sons than to publicly vote agast their wouldn’t have loved to be a fly on the wall when the Senator ma his gay marriage is ncern wh the LGBTQIA+ muny and Democrats that the US Supreme Court uld strip away the right to same-sex and terracial marriage a siar manner to their overturng of abortn Rpect for Marriage Act is now beg nsired by the Senate, where 10 GOP lawmakers will have to cross the floor to si wh all 50 Democrats orr for the legislatn to be sent to Print Joe Bin’s sk.

REPUBLIN SENATOR ATTEND HIS GAY SON'S WEDDG DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST BILL TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE

) me out as gay Thursday social media and web posts. In the postgs on Instagram and a web page, the 38-year-old also scrib his anguish at beg rejected by members of his eply relig fay, cludg his mother, after they learned last year he was gay. “Where was I, they will ask, when I was a posn to help advance issu important to gay Amerins?

” his postg longtime supporters of gay rights blasted him on social media Thursday, cludg Pennsylvania state Rep.

“Anyone n be gay. “I n live openly now as a gay man bee of the extraordary brave people who had the urage to fight for our rights when I did not, ” he starts the postgs on both Instagram and the web page wh the words: “I am gay.

FORMER REPUBLIN NGRSMAN SAYS HE’S GAY, REGRETS ANTI-GAY STANC

”He said he still receiv ocsnal emails om fay members “tryg to sell me on nversn therapy, ” the wily bunked notn that someone who is gay n, wh therapy, bee heterosexual. He said he don’t thk he was aware there were other gays his midst. He said the fact he is gay wouldn’t be a revelatn for many who know him, addg that g out publicly as gay is “jt one of those thgs my life need of explic affirmatn … to fally validate who I am as a person.

After Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill was passed by the state Senate this week, the legislature’s first openly gay Senator, who had argued agast the bill, said he’s worried about the state’s LGBTQ+ youth. Shevr Jon plead wh his lleagu to vote agast the state legislature’s ntroversial Parental Rights Edutn bill, known to s crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Like other LGBTQ+ advot, Jon, who is the state Senate’s first openly gay member, argued that the bill, which prohibs classroom stctn about sexual orientatn and genr inty that is not “age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate” for children, would likely force LGBTQ+ stunts further to the closet and stigmatize the experienc of people who are not heterosexual or cisgenr.

FLORIDA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STATE SENATOR ON ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PASSG: ‘THE AIR WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE ROOM’

The son of a pastor South Florida, the hman state senator prevly served three terms the state Hoe of Reprentativ, but did not publicly e out as gay until 2018, when he was 34. Geia this week troduced s own “Don’t Say Gay” bill, though s fate is far ls certa.

You see bills like the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill bee there’s jt not enough LGBTQ reprentatn stg at the table. FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY BILL’ HEADS TO DESANTIS’S DESK.

HOMOPHOBIC POLICIAN RIGNS AFTER GETTG BTED AT GAY SEX PARTY DURG LOCKDOWN

DISNEY CEO ADDRESSES SILENCE ON FLORIDA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL. Cicille, who is gay, origally troduced the Equaly Act 2015, which aims to prohib sex and genr-based discrimatn. Mark Pon, who is gay, was elected to the Hoe of Reprentativ after Tammy Baldw vated the seat and moved to the Senate.

In a 2012 blog post for Our Liv, a lol LGBTQ+ media outlet Wisns, Pon revealed when he was aged 23 he was beaten by someone wh a baseball bat after leavg a gay bar, lled a strg of nam cludg the “F” slur, and left unnsc and bloody on the street.

THE OUTG OF 'LADY G': HUIATG A CLOSETED GAY REPUBLIN THE NAME OF LGBT RIGHTS

He was publicly outed durg his unsuccsful 1994 mpaign for Congrs, when a polician told a church group he was a “homosexual liberal”, which ma headl.

On the 10th anniversary on the repealg of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, a law that allowed lbian, gay, bisexual and queer people to service the ary as long as they ncealed their sexual orientatn, Takano spoke out about the “damagg and lastg effects” had “on thoands of service members”.