The Florida Don't Say Gay law shows the opposg velopments ncerng LGBTQ tn U.S. schools. While some stat have been tablishg legal foundatns for LGBTQ curriculums recently, Florida is gog the oppose directn and more stat are expected to follow s example.
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- 'SEX EDUTN'S' ERIC EFFNG IS SPIRATN TO NIGERIA'S GAYS, SAYS ACTIVIST
- CHA PLANS OUTREACH TO GAY COMMUNI A BID TO CURB MPOX
'SEX EDUTN'S' ERIC EFFNG IS SPIRATN TO NIGERIA'S GAYS, SAYS ACTIVIST
* gay representation in sex education *
Saleh was particularly moved by scen portrayg Eric Effng (Ncuti Gatwa), a gay Ghanaian-Nigerian character who attends a fay weddg Nigeria. Jackson then asks his lbian mother if she always knew she was gay.
Though he tells her, “This isn’t me tellg you I’m gay, ” this is still an important scene where Jackson, the perfectnist head boy, has a chance to tly self-reflect on his prumed cis-straight inty. This legislatn would thorize grants for prehensive sex-tn programs that are clive of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr, or LGBT, youth. Young men who have sex wh men, who may intify as gay or bisexual, acunt for more than two-thirds of new HIV fectns among people ag 13 to 29.
Young women high school who intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual are more likely to ntract an STI and more likely to bee pregnant than those who intify as heterosexual or qutng.
CHA PLANS OUTREACH TO GAY COMMUNI A BID TO CURB MPOX
In Alabama, for example, sex tors mt teach that “homosexualy is not a liftyle acceptable to the general public” and that “homosexual nduct is a crimal offence unr the laws of the state. There are also seven stat where posive discsn of beg gay is prohibed schools.
A female senr high school wrote, “Bee my school’s health program ignor the gay stunts, I have been pretty cluels about safe sex.
” In other programs, tors are stcted to ll beg gay “unnatural” and to tell stunts that people wh HIV or AIDS are “sufferg” for the “choice” they ma to be gay.