Florida teacher speaks about passage of 'Don't Say Gay' bill

Contents:

• GAY FLORIDA KRGARTEN TEACHER WORRI ON MSNBC HE WON’T BE ABLE TO SHARE HIS LOVE LIFE WH KIDS ANYMORE
• WAPO CELEBRAT GAY KRGARTEN TEACHER WHO BROUGHT IN TRANS ACTIVIST TO TEACH KIDS ABOUT GENR
• I’M A GAY KRGARTEN TEACHER FLORIDA. THE ARE THE QUTNS I’M ASKG MYSELF.
• KRGARTEN TEACHER FLORIDA FEARS HE WON’T BE ALLOWED TO TELL STUNTS ABOUT HIS GAY RELATNSHIP
• GAY KRGARTEN TEACHER ON FLORIDA LAW GUARDG PARENTAL RIGHTS: 'IT SR ME TO ATH' THAT I WON'T BE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT 'MY PARTNER' TO MY STUNTS
• 'DON'T SAY GAY': HOW THE FLORIDA BILL IS IMPACTG A KRGARTEN TEACHER
• FLORIDA TEACHER SPEAKS ABOUT PASSAGE OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• TEACHER: I WAS FIRED FOR BEG GAY. NOW IT CAN’T HAPPEN TO ANYONE ELSE
• LGBTQ+ PARENTS FEAR THEIR CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO HI THEIR FAI AT SCHOOL UNR FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• GAY TEACHERS

GAY FLORIDA KRGARTEN TEACHER WORRI ON MSNBC HE WON’T BE ABLE TO SHARE HIS LOVE LIFE WH KIDS ANYMORE

As a krgarten teacher who is gay and has pictur of himself and his partner his classroom, I regularly answer qutns om my stunts like: “Mr. Calls and emails were ma to my supertennt mandg my termatn, far-right news outlets began nng headl like “Gay krgarten teacher wants to talk to his kids about his love life,” and the number of random-number phone lls to my personal cellphone creased twofold. And a key part of that tn is the necsary, valuable buildg block of muny.When muny is built the classroom, the level of engagement I see my stunts mak hard to believe they are only 5 and 6 years old.But the Parental Rights Edutn law, which crics have lled the “Don’t Say Gay” law, ultimately eros that muny.

We n’t let them w.RelatedRon DeSantis’ woke math sndal shows how he’s bee more dangero than TmpFlorida’s anti-gay bill is wrong. A gay krgarten teacher Florida has said he fears the state’s new law prohibg him om engagg classroom “stctn” related to sexual orientatn and genr inty will prevent him om formg important bonds wh his stunts bee he is unable to talk about his personal life. The state’s Parental Rights Edutn law – known to s crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law – was signed on Monday by Republin Gov.

WAPO CELEBRAT GAY KRGARTEN TEACHER WHO BROUGHT IN TRANS ACTIVIST TO TEACH KIDS ABOUT GENR

A gay Florida krgarten teacher on Tuday said he worri he will have to shield his personal life om his young stunts unr the state’s new Parental Rights Edutn law, which has been dubbed by s crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law. “They’re not secretly phg the ‘gay agenda, ’ the ‘trans agenda, ’ the ‘woke agenda’ – ’s jt not happeng, ” state Sen. ”The bill has been wildly misreprented as “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn, though nowhere the legislatn is the word “gay” word “parent” is mentned 32 tim, the word “parental” is mentned eight tim, and the legislatn heavily foc on parental notifitn and parental awarens of what children are beg tght or exposed to school.

In 1996, the film “It's Elementary: Talkg About Gay Issu School” was released, showg teachers krgarten through fifth gra leadg thoughtful and rigoro lsons about gay and lbian people and fai. In light of recent data showg ntued hostily schools towards LGBTQ youth (GLSEN 2017 NSCS), and suicis by young children for beg gay, this ntu to feel like urgent and important work.

I’M A GAY KRGARTEN TEACHER FLORIDA. THE ARE THE QUTNS I’M ASKG MYSELF.

The appendic clu specific law and policy rmatn for Canadian tors as well as rourc for GSAs (Genr and Sexualy Allianc/Gay-Straight Allianc) and other school-wi programmg ias. Foster, an openly gay krgarten teacher at the very public Ashlawn Elementary School, told the Washgton Post he mak sure to stock his classroom library wh books about kids who have gay or lbian parents, as well as kids who intify as transgenr. Havg once been a teacher Nebraska, Foster said he was tired of beg told he uldn't share his gay-ns wh his stunts by tellg them all about his boyiends.

KRGARTEN TEACHER FLORIDA FEARS HE WON’T BE ALLOWED TO TELL STUNTS ABOUT HIS GAY RELATNSHIP

(LifeSeNews) — A homosexual krgarten teacher told MSNBC on Tuday he’s worried he’ll no longer be allowed to talk wh five-year-olds about his relatnship wh his “partner” due to Florida’s new law prohibg teachers om stctg young children about sexualy.

The legislatn, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by opponents, bans classroom stctn regardg sexual orientatn and genr inty for kids krgarten through third gra.

Gay krgarten teacher on Florida law guardg parental rights: 'It sr me to ath' that I won't be able to talk about 'my partner' to my stunts.

GAY KRGARTEN TEACHER ON FLORIDA LAW GUARDG PARENTAL RIGHTS: 'IT SR ME TO ATH' THAT I WON'T BE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT 'MY PARTNER' TO MY STUNTS

A gay krgarten teacher Florida said " sr me to ath" that he won't be able to talk to his stunts about his "partner" due to the Parental Rights Edutn bill Gov.

The law — which left-wg pro-LBGTQ typ have falsely referred to as the "Don't Say Gay" bill — prohibs classroom stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty gras K-3, and don't e the word "gay" or prevent s e. Bernaert also said that if gay parents of his stunts don't want to or don't know how to answer such a qutn, then his stunts "are gonna e to me and ask me.

'DON'T SAY GAY': HOW THE FLORIDA BILL IS IMPACTG A KRGARTEN TEACHER

Ron DeSantis, a potential 2024 GOP printial ntenr, jt signed a ntroversial bill, lled "Don't Say Gay" by crics, that would rtrict classroom stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty schools. A Florida krgarten teacher said he is worried he uld be sued for havg hont nversatns the classroom unr the state’s new “Don’t Say Gay” law, an terview wh MSNBC on Bernaert said the bill uld prevent him om even mentng his partner class, addg that children are cur and discsns help foster muny schools.

“Florida’s HB 1557, also known as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed to law, ” the statement new law signed by Florida Gov. After about a the classroom, he was named the bt tor Kentucky September 2021 -- but at the same time, he said, a small but vol mory his ral town Montgomery County went after, who is gay, told ABC News that he was sgled out for actually protectg LGBTQ kids his school and their fai, which ma him a said that earlier this year, a muny member who was postg about him on social media also repeatedly went to unty school board meetgs to report predatn and so-lled child "groomg" -- a term that has bee popular nservative circl for allegatns of adults sexually manipulatg said this person, who had not named him at the board meetgs but repeatedly referenced him by name onle, also "doxxed" him and some of his stunts on Facebook by sharg their private, acrdg to Carver, he and some stunts' parents asked Montgomery County Supertennt Dr. "Many crics labeled the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights Edutn bill -- which don't specifilly e the word "gay, " though broadly rtricts talk of sexualy and genr -- to law earlier this year rponse to "woke genr iology. "Joshua Block is a staff attorney wh the Natnal ACLU’s Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr & HIV "We need to be teachg them to read or wre, to add, to subtract, " he said -- addg that "the purpose of our schools is to te kids not to doctrate them. "This is the exact oppose of what we need, " Kryk, a gay fifth-gra teacher outsi of Tampa, told ABC News.

FLORIDA TEACHER SPEAKS ABOUT PASSAGE OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

He intifi as gay. Before the bill was passed, some Democrats unsuccsfully attempted to make more specific -- rtrictg stctn on sexual activy rather than orientatn, for though many who spoke wh ABC News said they are disappoted the law's lack of clary, some gay teachers don't see an issue wh .

Pancholy's Stonewall Honor-wng novel "The Bt at It" follows 12-year-old Rahul Kapoor, who is not only figurg out his cultural inty as an Indian-Amerin but is also jt begng to realize that he might be gay.

And so what's next: gay marriage? “One of the male stunts was cryg and he said stunts were llg him a girl and sayg, ‘Hey, girl e here’ and ‘Hey woman, throw the ball’ and thgs of that nature, and they lled him gay a way that hurt his feelgs, ” Currie, who is openly gay, said.

TEACHER: I WAS FIRED FOR BEG GAY. NOW IT CAN’T HAPPEN TO ANYONE ELSE

“The other fai were sayg that as a gay person, I shouldn’t be the buildg, and as a gay person, I might be phg some kd of homosexual agenda and the book should not be the buildg or read at all, ” Currie said. Whether teachers are out or not, many of them are worried that terveng too much the bullyg of a stunt, pecially one who has had homophobic or transphobic slurs hurled at them, will make them look too much like an advote and somehow unrme their profsnalism. For now, she tri to do what she n to help kids who are beg bullied and create an acceptg environment for kids for aren’t nformg to genr rol or are negatively labeled as gay.

When asked if he is ever ncerned that he will look too terted anti-gay bullyg, he said, “I stay my lane. He’s seen a huge shift how gay stunts are treated, however. “When I went to school, ‘faggot’ was beg thrown around left and right, and ‘That’s so gay, ’ and now ’s done ls and ls.

Greg Smedley-Warren, an openly gay krgarten teacher who has a popular blog lled The Krgarten Smasboard liv Tennsee, a state whout LGBT nondiscrimatn laws. When a boy was negatively lled gay, he had to ntrol his temper a ltle.

LGBTQ+ PARENTS FEAR THEIR CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO HI THEIR FAI AT SCHOOL UNR FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

“When I’m stg an terview, I don’t say well, ‘I’m gay, is that OK? “There are more openly gay teachers than there ed to be, but they’re still pretty rare.

Out of six gay teachers I know, some are out to their iends, some are out to faculty and admistratn, but I’m the only one who is out to stunts and parents, ” Rigby said. Rigby said a good admistrator will talk to parents who have problems wh a teacher beg gay but that hasn’t always been the se at other schools he has worked at throughout his reer. He has changed schools twice bee he didn’t thk the admistratns were supportive of his beg gay.

“I did have an admistrator e to me and said a parent didn’t like their child havg a gay teacher so I met wh the parent and I was radilly unfortable, and beg Fairfax and my havg several endorsements I changed schools.

GAY TEACHERS

CREDIT: Courty of Omar Currie“After I pleted my stunt teachg they spoke wh me about stayg and we had a regular terview and one qutn I asked was, “I am an openly gay man and wh a few mut of talkg to me, any fay is gog to know that I’m gay, ” Currie said.