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• CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
• CONSERVATIVE CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS CURRICULUM CLUDG GAY RIGHTS AFTER SPAT WH ERNOR
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• ITALY BEGS REMOVG GAY MOTHERS OM CHILDREN’S BIRTH CERTIFIT
• VAST MAJORY OF FLORIDA VOTERS OPPOSE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL – GOP IS GOG TO PASS ANYWAY
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR

A Southern California school board on Friday adopted a social studi curriculum that clus gay rights that was approved by parents and teachers after ially rejectg .

“Unr the headg ‘Protts, ’ one paragraph discs gay rights California and unr the headg ‘Court Cas, ’ there are two paragraphs that discs the urt s that allowed gay marriage California. She said a supplemental rource lists Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist and polician who was assassated 1978, along wh San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne.

CONSERVATIVE CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS CURRICULUM CLUDG GAY RIGHTS AFTER SPAT WH ERNOR

Milk was believed to be the first openly gay person elected to public office California.

Sign up to our Eveng Headl email for your daily gui to the latt newsSign up to our ee US Eveng Headl emailA nservative California school board stnchly opposed to teachg gay rights s social studi curriculum fally reversed urse after holdg a heated ne-hour bate and publicly fdg wh Democratic Governor Gav Friday, Temecula Valley Unified School District voted to adopt “California’s Cultural Contributns” textbooks, reversg a May vote rejectg the curriculum. ”Much of the district’s ntroversy had centred on Mr Milk, the first known out gay man to hold public office California who was assassated at San Francis Cy Hall 1978. Unr the headg ‘Protts, ’ one paragraph discs gay rights California and unr the headg ‘Court Cas, ’ there are two paragraphs that discs the urt s that allowed gay marriage California.

Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years 2020, Nevada beme the first state to ensure the right to same-sex marriage s state nstutn. For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsItaly has begun removg the nam of gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit, as part of the right-wg ernment’s crackdown on same-sex move after populist prime mister Grgia Meloni’s aln announced March that state agenci should no longer register the children of same-sex upl, a move that sparked protts Milan.

Dpe Ms Meloni parg herself to Brish Conservativ and nyg she is homophobic, her party rose to power wh tough rhetoric agast same-sex parentg and support for tradnal fai and moral valu. ”Her aln partner, Matteo Salvi, of the far-right League party, had prevly lled gay parents “unnatural” while the ernment opposed a Bssels plan for a parenthood certifite that would be valid across the EU.

ITALY BEGS REMOVG GAY MOTHERS OM CHILDREN’S BIRTH CERTIFIT

Gay upl are forced to go abroad if they want children, as they are banned om accsg reproductive medil treatment such as IVF and surrogacy is also prohibed. While a narrow majory of Republins (54%) opposed same-sex-marriage 2017, nearly six--ten Republin-leang pennts (58%) favored allowg gays and lbians to marry legally. In June 2017, a majory of adults (62%) favored allowg gays and lbians to marry legally, while jt 32% were opposed.

Inpennts’ views of same-sex-marriage were siar to Democrats’: 73% of Democrats favored gay marriage, as did 70% of pennts.

VAST MAJORY OF FLORIDA VOTERS OPPOSE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL – GOP IS GOG TO PASS ANYWAY

Florida’s Hoe of Reprentativ passed the so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill and set the much-maligned law up for a fal vote spe wispread disapproval among lawmakers passed a fal versn of the bill on Tuday, a poll showed around a third of voters (34 per cent) supportg the legislatn “somewhat or strongly”. The “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn, as ’s referred to by crics, has been nmned by Democrats, parents and the Whe Hoe, which has scribed the legislatn as “hateful”. If be law, will censor nversatns about homosexualy and genr inty Florida’s classrooms.

“If this ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill be law, s isolatg impacts will ensure that even more vulnerable LGBTQ+ children will suffer, and some will die, ” argued Ms Wasserman Schultz, reference to figur om LGBT+ suici preventn and crisis terventn group The Trevor group found that LGBT+ youth are four tim more likely to serly nsir, plan or attempt suici than their peers, while those who learned about LGBT+ issu schools were meanwhile ls likely to do so. Classroom nversatns about homosexualy and genr inty for children “krgarten through gra 3” would however be forbidn Florida, as well as circumstanc “that is not age appropriate”, followg the fal passg of the bill.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

Republin lawmaker Joe Hardg, the sponsor of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, has meanwhile fend his proposals om cricism and has said spontaneo discsns about LGBT+ topics would be Hardg said on Tuday that the legislatn was signed to stop the subjects beg serted to the curriculum. That is spe wily regnised anniversari such as LGBT+ history month beg marked the US for Michael Br, a UNF polil science profsor and director of PORL, add on Tuday: “Support for the so-lled ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill is only about 40 per cent, spe beg passed the State Senate last week”. Californians will vote on a proposal to amend the state Constutn on the 2024 ballot to reaffirm gay marriage rights — a ut move that amid natnal anxiety after recent lgs by the nservative-leang U.

Although there is no current threat to the legaly of gay marriage, and Print Bin signed a bill safeguardg last year, the Democratic-domant state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to stead explicly state that marriage is “a fundamental right. Gav Newsom was out of state, Senate lear Toni Atks (D-San Diego) signed bills to law on his behalf as the first out gay actg ernor. Nearly six--ten Republin-leang pennts (59%), for example, currently favor allowg gays and lbians to marry legally, pared wh 37% among Republin intifiers.