Florida Stunt Wasn’t Allowed to Say Gay Graduatn Speech

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• GAY HIGH SCHOOLER SAYS HE'S 'BEG SILENCED' BY FLORIDA'S LGBTQ LAW
• GAY STUNT SAYS FLORIDA SCHOOL IS STOPPG HIS N FOR STUNT LEARSHIP
• NORTH JERSEY STUNTS NEED GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC THEIR HIGH SCHOOLS. THIS IS WHY
• THE BT GAY-FRIENDLY SCHOOLS
• WHAT'S LIFE LIKE FOR GAY KIDS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
• THIS FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUNT WASN’T ALLOWED TO SAY GAY HIS GRADUATN SPEECH

GAY HIGH SCHOOLER SAYS HE'S 'BEG SILENCED' BY FLORIDA'S LGBTQ LAW

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Jordan Steffy, a gay teen, was ught on vio standg up to his bully, and the ter lled him a hero. In November 2019, Jordan Steffy, a junr at LaPorte High School Indiana, said a fellow classmate posted a homophobic msage about him on Snapchat. When Steffy nonted the other stunt, the stunt lled him a homophobic slur.

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GAY STUNT SAYS FLORIDA SCHOOL IS STOPPG HIS N FOR STUNT LEARSHIP

"He told me that I was termated bee of my sexual orientatn and that they n't have someone that intifi as gay a learship posn, " Taylor told Insir. When Seth Owen, a high school valedictorian, was kicked out of his home for beg gay, he was worried he wouldn't be able to go to llege — until his teachers stepped .

But at home, his relig parents found out that he was gay and told him to move he applied to his dream school, Geetown Universy, the school gave him a fancial aid package that was based on his parents' e even though he was not livg wh them. "I would tell that sophomore kid to hold their head high, roll their shoulrs back and be exactly who they are, " Owen told NBC News. Keegan Roberts, a gay teenager, has bee one of the youngt elected officials the US at 19.

It worked, and Roberts was elected to the cy uncil and beme one of the youngt openly gay elected officials the untry. A lawyer for the school nied the speech was blocked bee Young was gog to e out as gay, but bee he "didn't munite wh school admistrators and his parents and ed appropriate humor , " the Coloradoan LGBTQ advocy group named Out Boulr jumped and offered Young a safe space to give his valedictorian speech. Moricz said he “strongly believ” the requt was rponse to a newly enacted state law, which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

NORTH JERSEY STUNTS NEED GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC THEIR HIGH SCHOOLS. THIS IS WHY

Proponents of the measure have ntend that giv parents more discretn over what their children learn school and say LGBTQ issu are “not age appropriate” for young crics have argued that the law uld stifle teachers and stunts om talkg about their inti or their lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer fay members. ”“The reason somethg like the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law seems like nothg but is actually everythg is that when you nnot talk about or share who you are, there is a nstant subnsc affirmatn that you are not valid, that you should not exist, ” Moricz fight agast the legislatn is personal for Moricz, he add. Ileana Garcia's office after passage of the Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by crics, Miami on March Raedle / Getty Imag fileMay 19, 2022, 2:54 PM UTC / Source: The Associated PrsA 17-year-old gay stunt who was spend for leadg protts at his high school agast Florida’s so-lled Don’t Say Gay legislatn says school admistrators are stoppg him om nng for senr class print.

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THE BT GAY-FRIENDLY SCHOOLS

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I’ve appreciated those who said I helped them love readg, of urse, and those who shared how important was to have a safe person and space to be themselv:“In this town, havg a iendly ally around school is super important, and you have helped more gay kids than you realize. Feelg the support om a teacher was life savg … I remember not feelg judged or threatened by the fact that you knew I was gay.

”My heart and memori are full of other ways our GSA spired safety at school:The pta of the football team, outsi my classroom, explag to his teammat that the Day of Silence was not about gay pri but stead protectg those who have been bullied and harassed, sometim to GSA member who got up ont of the staff and explaed the importance of honorg stunts’ stunt who me to me tears bee their parents threatened to throw them out if they tried to intify as stunt who ran to my classroom wh a iend, neher of them GSA members, bee a teacher was g his ad name and he didn’t know what to do, but my stunt, his iend, knew whom to ask for existence of this club, the fact that stunts know there is someone who will always hold safe space for them — every other Monday om 2:15 to 3:15 p.

WHAT'S LIFE LIKE FOR GAY KIDS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

We need everyone to regnize the needs of vulnerable young people to be seen and accepted so they n grow, learn and safety and succs of everyone our school and throughout the muny pends on accs to the rourc and supportg every stunt who needs Signorelli is a teacher Wt Milford Township Public article origally appeared on NJ stunts need accs to gay-straight stunt allianc. In orr to be nsired for this rankg, a school had to appear on eher The Advote's list of the 100 bt schools for LGBT stunts or 's list of gay-iendly mp.

And the rult is a list of schools wh great amic standards and a mp atmosphere that is iendly to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Our RankgsContributg edor Peter Bernste and rearcher Courtney Kennedy drew on dozens of sourc to pile the rankgs cludg rmatn om the Natnal Center for Edutn Statistics, The Washgton Monthly, and College Prowler. The Universy of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League llege Philalphia is on seven of Newsweek's "bt of" lists, rankg 13th on our list of most sirable lleg; eighth on the list of most sirable urban lleg; send for most sirable large mp; sixth schools bt for future power brokers; first for gay-iendls and diversy; and fally, 18th among the 25 bt lleg for the super-smart. 18), bt gay-iendly (No.

THIS FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUNT WASN’T ALLOWED TO SAY GAY HIS GRADUATN SPEECH

9) the school nabbed the number 2 spot on Newsweek's gay-iendly list is no surprise to stunts. "Berkeley is home to a proud LGBTIQQ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Intersex, Queer and Qutng) muny, which has a large prence on mp and mak the environment feel more tolerant, " wr one stunt on public school has an unrgraduate enrollment of jt over 25, 500, 53 percent of who were women the fall of 2009.