Teachers voice ncerns after Orange County previews ‘Don’t Say Gay’ impact to classrooms – WFTV

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• AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
• TEACHERS VOICE NCERNS AFTER ORANGE COUNTY PREVIEWS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ IMPACT TO CLASSROOMSBY NICK PAPANTONIS, JUNE 27, 2022 AT 11:31 PM EDTBY NICK PAPANTONIS, JUNE 27, 2022 AT 11:31 PM EDTORANGE COUNTY, FLA. — REPRENTATIV FOR ORANGE COUNTY TEACHERS SOUND ALARM BELLS MONDAY AFTER WORD SPREAD OM PRCIPALS THAT ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS WOULD IMPOSE STRICT RTRICTNS ON CLASSROOM BEHAVR AFTER FLORIDA’S NEW PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN LAW, A.K.A THE “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW, TOOK EFFECT.>>> STREAM CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS LIVE <<<
• TEACHERS TOLD TO REMOVE RABOWS, PHOTOS OF SAME-SEX SPO AS DESANTIS’ ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW GO INTO EFFECT
• FLORIDA TEACHERS GET NEW MARCHG ORRS AS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW GO TO EFFECT, AND ’S NOT PRETTY
• COLUMN: HOW 2.8 LN CALIFORNIA VOTERS NEARLY BANNED GAY TEACHERS OM PUBLIC SCHOOLS
• ‘HURTFUL AND SULTG’: FLORIDA TEACHERS REACT TO THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• LGBTQ+ TEACHERS TOLD TO HI WHO THEY ARE AS DON’T SAY GAY GO TO EFFECT
• TEACHERS VOICE NCERNS AFTER ORANGE COUNTY PREVIEWS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ IMPACT TO CLASSROOMS
• CALIFORNIA TRIED TO BAN GAY TEACHERS 1978. EDUTORS AND ACTIVISTS WHO FOUGHT BACK FEAR HISTORY MAY BE REPEATG SELF.

AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS

As Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn law — or what crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law — go to effect Friday, some of the state’s public school districts have begun rollg out new polici to lim LGBTQ issu and inti om beg discsed the Tuday night, the Leon County School Board unanimoly approved s “LGBTQ Inclive School Gui, ” which clus a provisn to alert parents if a stunt who is “open about their genr inty” is their child’s physil tn class or wh them on an overnight school trip. Clifford / AP fileThe so-lled Don’t Say Gay law, HB 1557, bans “stctn” about sexual orientatn or genr inty “ krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards.

” A provisn the law also requir school staff members to alert parents about “cril cisns affectg a stunt’s mental, emotnal, or physil health or well-beg, ” which many advot have terpreted as a way to force tors to out their gay or trans stunts. They have also ntend that will not prohib teachers and stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 attack at the Pulse gay nightclub crics and legal experts have said the broad language of the law uld open school districts and teachers to lawsus om parents who believe any nversatn about LGBTQ people or issu is “not age appropriate.

Carlos Smh, a Democrat who is gay and has been an outspoken cric of the new law, said he was “not surprised” that schools the state were announcg the polici and guil. “What’s happeng right now — wh the censorship of rabow flags and school districts preparg to basilly ph LGBTQ stunts and teachers to the closet — is exactly what we said would happen wh the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law.

TEACHERS VOICE NCERNS AFTER ORANGE COUNTY PREVIEWS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ IMPACT TO CLASSROOMSBY NICK PAPANTONIS, JUNE 27, 2022 AT 11:31 PM EDTBY NICK PAPANTONIS, JUNE 27, 2022 AT 11:31 PM EDTORANGE COUNTY, FLA. — REPRENTATIV FOR ORANGE COUNTY TEACHERS SOUND ALARM BELLS MONDAY AFTER WORD SPREAD OM PRCIPALS THAT ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS WOULD IMPOSE STRICT RTRICTNS ON CLASSROOM BEHAVR AFTER FLORIDA’S NEW PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN LAW, A.K.A THE “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW, TOOK EFFECT.>>> STREAM CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS LIVE <<<

"Members and supporters of the LGBTQ muny at the "Say Gay Anyway" rally Miami Beach, Fla., on March 13. Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty Imag fileFive other stat — all of them the South — have enacted laws that lim stctn or discsns about LGBTQ people or issu school, and at least 32 others have proposed such measur this year, acrdg to acrdg to the Movement Advancement Project, an LGBTQ thk tank that has been trackg the strsed that the polici will have nsequenc for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer stunts, potg to the disproportnately high rat of suici attempts among the untry’s LGBTQ youths. ”In Palm Beach County, Woods, who is gay, said that after they received the qutnnaire om school officials to flag urse material or books wh LGBTQ referenc, many of his lleagu are nervo they’ll be reprimand if they miss somethg.

TEACHERS TOLD TO REMOVE RABOWS, PHOTOS OF SAME-SEX SPO AS DESANTIS’ ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW GO INTO EFFECT

Sad gay man (Shutterstock). Teachers Orange County, Florida are beg told to scrape rabow stickers off doors and wdows, take photos of their fai off their sks if they have a same-sex spoe, and are beg directed to report if a stunt out as LGBTQ, as Governor Ron DeSantis' "Don't Say Gay" law go to effect July 1, acrdg to a teachers' anizatn.

A the “Don’t Say Gay” law, took effect. Elementary-level teachers reported beg disuraged om puttg pictur of their same-sex spoe on their sk or talkg about them to LGBTQ activists speak out on ntroversial ‘don’t say gay’ bill Tallahassee“Safe Space” stickers aimed at LGBTQ stunts may have to be removed om doors, teachers will have to report to parents if a stunt “ out” to them and they mt e pronouns assigned at birth, regardls of what the parents allow, the CTA of the measur appeared to be far outsi what the law actually forbids, as foc primarily on mental health monorg and classroom curriculums.

Sce long before was ever signed to law, legal experts and activists have been warng about the lack of clary Florida's so-lled "Don't Say Gay" legislatn and the potential legal jeopardy prents for LGBTQ+ people and pot? "Cg a motn to dismiss filed June an ongog lawsu seekg to validate the law, the Orange County schools' memo read part:"'There is no mer, for example, to the suggtn that the statute rtricts gay and transgenr teachers om 'put[tg] a fay photo on their sk' or 'refer[rg] to themselv and their spoe (and their own children).

FLORIDA TEACHERS GET NEW MARCHG ORRS AS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW GO TO EFFECT, AND ’S NOT PRETTY

If you\u2019re gay you n\u2019t discs your partner. Gay teachers n\u2019t. "Don't say Gay" law is creatg nfn?

“Teachers are not allowed to make referenc to gay pri and are disuraged om wearg pri or BLM shirts and may not discs them if they do. “Teachers will be required to notify parents if a stunt out to them that they are gay. Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law go to effect July 1, and fears about the law’s vague language appear to be fully jtified.

Related: DeSantis prs secretary tweets vile take on ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill and the Inter jt n’t wh her. Subscribe to Queerty for a daily dose of #life #don'tsaygay #ronsantis stori and more. Gearhart was a radil femist separatist, a munitns profsor, a Bay Area force of nature, a wrer and outspoken gay rights activist.

COLUMN: HOW 2.8 LN CALIFORNIA VOTERS NEARLY BANNED GAY TEACHERS OM PUBLIC SCHOOLS

In 1978, Proposn 6 roiled California, ptg the gay rights movement agast the state’s moralists and brachild, if you n ll that, of State Sen.

Briggs, an Orange County Republin, the iative would have ma illegal for gays and lbians to teach California’s public schools. Briggs was spired to lnch the iative by sger Ana Bryant’s homophobic “Save Our Children” mpaign a year earlier Florida’s Da did California need to ban homosexuals om teachg s schools?

‘HURTFUL AND SULTG’: FLORIDA TEACHERS REACT TO THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

Teachers were gay — and more San Francis — and that they were all cipient child molters. He said homosexualy was worse than munism, bee spread “like a ncer” through society and led to the stctn of civilizatns. In an terview wh the Los Angel Tim’ Robert Scheer, he claimed that San Francis’s welfare rolls were growg bee homosexuals “tend to have more tert their sexual activi than workg.

“Believe or not, ” said Briggs, “right now California, a teacher n stand up the classroom and say he is homosexual and troduce his wife, Harry, and not a sgle thg n be done about . ”You n wre Briggs off as a nut or a Neanrthal, but fact he reprented lns of people a televised bate, Gearhart asked Briggs why he wanted to remove homosexuals om schools “when is more than overwhelmgly te that is the heterosexual men … that are the child molters? It was probably not the work of Gearhart and Milk that won the day so much as a late--the-game statement opposg the ballot measure by a former ernor and future print, Ronald Reagan, acrdg to Dudley Clenden and Adam Nagourney “Out for Good, ” their history of the gay rights movement Ameri.

LGBTQ+ TEACHERS TOLD TO HI WHO THEY ARE AS DON’T SAY GAY GO TO EFFECT

“Whatever else is, homosexualy is not a ntag disease like the measl, ” Reagan wrote a lumn the Los Angel Herald-Examer jt before the electn. He’s ncerned Florida’s recent ntroversial “don’t say gay” bill is dangero, hateful legislatn that pos many risks to LGBTQ youth the state.

“Don’t say gay” also grants parents the right to sue for damag and attorney fe if a school district don’t rolve their plat about a child’s tn, which sentially forbids discsn of LGBTQ issu or inti. ”McCracken characterized the bill and py-t legislative efforts spreadg other parts of the US as part of a war on gay cvil rights igned by Republins and is eply ncerned about the negative impacts of the bill on stunts and teachers. “As a gay man, I fd both hurtful and sultg.

TEACHERS VOICE NCERNS AFTER ORANGE COUNTY PREVIEWS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ IMPACT TO CLASSROOMS

It’s hurtful, bee I don’t believe there’s anythg appropriate about my life as a gay man, ” he said.

I believe that I’m a good teacher and have posively impacted stunts and that me beg gay not only hasn’t been trimental to their learng, but has probably been helpful for a lot of people – not only LGBTQ+ stunts, but other stunts as well who see that I’m willg to live my life openly and that I believe everyone should be able to live their life wh digny and rpect and we should be treatg each other like fellow humans. Florida Republin state senator Dennis Baxley, a sponsor of the bill, remarks on the state senate floor, ma claims of a big uptick the number of children g out as gay and amed the bill as a rponse to that.

“This bill, for me, is a sign of pure hatred, ” said Javier Gomez, a high school senr at iPrep Amy Miami, Florida, and print of his school’s Gay-Straight Alliance club. I knew that I was gay at five years old.

CALIFORNIA TRIED TO BAN GAY TEACHERS 1978. EDUTORS AND ACTIVISTS WHO FOUGHT BACK FEAR HISTORY MAY BE REPEATG SELF.

We’re beg left fensels whout the support we need and we are ntug to face homophobia om our ernment.

”Proponents of the “don’t say gay” legislatn are manufacturg smear mpaigns support of expandg the bills to other stat, cludg claims that Disney is attemptg to “sexualize our children” as part of a progrsive LGBTQ agenda. The accatns have been promoted by Chris Rufo, a rightwg thktank fellow who leaked vios of Disney executiv, claimg Disney has a “not so secret gay agenda” is jt a few weeks after Disney faced cricism om employe and the LGBTQ muny for refg to make a statement opposn to Florida’s don’t say gay bill.

Rufo prevly worked as a fellow for the Claremont Instute, which has a troublg rerd of anti-gay polics and phg for nversn “therapy”. “I’m gay too so this hs me doubly hard, ” said Jean Eckhoff, a history teacher of middle school and high school stunts Live Oak, Florida, for 17 years.