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Contents:

• WHAT IS FLORIDA’S DON’T SAY GAY BILL?
• FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'
• STRICTLY LEGAL: SU OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FAILS
• DELAWARE VICE CHANCELLOR L DISNEY OPPOSN TO DON’T SAY GAY BILL WAS WH S RPORATE RIGHTS
• FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLS, EXPLAED
• FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLS, EXPLAED
• FLORIDA GOP LAWMAKER WHO SPONSORED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL RIGNS AFTER FRD CHARG
• STT MAXWELL: FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW LEADS TO CENSORSHIP OF CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK ON PENGUS
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• FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL, EXPLAED
• DON'T SAY GAY
• 'DON'T SAY GAY': BIN NOUNC 'HATEFUL' NEW FLORIDA BILL
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD LIM DISCSN OF SEXUALY AND GENR FLORIDA SCHOOLS
• WHAT FLORIDA'S "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL COULD MEAN FOR LGBTQ KIDS
• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: FLORIDA SENATE PASS LAW MARGALIZG LGBTQ+ PEOPLE
• FLORIDA'S NTROVERSIAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL: WHAT'S SI THE PROPOSED LAW
• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PASS FLORIDA, GO TO ERNOR
• FLORIDA ‘DON’T SAY GAY BILL’ SIGNED BY GOV. RON DANTIS
• FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS
• FACT-CHECKG 3 PROMENT CLAIMS ABOUT FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

WHAT IS FLORIDA’S DON’T SAY GAY BILL?

The Florida Senate’s Edutn Commtee has passed a ntroversial new piece of legislatn aimed at rtrictg schools the Sunshe State om teachg pupils about sexual orientatn and genr issu, wh teachers openg themselv up to lawsus should they fail to the “Don’t Say Gay” bill but formally known as Senate Bill 1834 “Parental Rights Edutn”, the text of the legislatn stat: “A school district may not enurage classroom discsn about sexual orientatn or genr inty primary gra levels or a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts. The bill, which some opponents have lled "Don't Say Gay, " was signed by DeSantis on Monday.

The "Don't Say Gay" moniker om crics of the measure who blast this ia and sist this policy will hurt LGBTQ children. "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 read.

FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'

The basis for the su was that Disney's directors and officers allegedly vlated their rporate fiduciary duti by opposg Florida HB 1557 – also known as the "don't say gay" HB 1557 was first passed, Disney took no public posn on the bill. Was not out of le opposg “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn Florida. Will’s cisn chronicled a turbulent perd durg the dispute that clud Bob Chapek, the pany’s CEO ially not rpondg to the Don’t Say Gay law and then later reversg that posn amid employee and perhaps board prsure.

Crics, who ll the measur Florida’s “don’t say gay” bills, argue the measur are an attempt to weaponize the ia of parental rights to margalize LGBTQ part of the bills generatg the most bate is short: jt 31 words.

Carlos Guillermo Smh, D-Orlando, one of the few openly gay members of the Florida Legislature, noted the relevant sectn wh an important njunctn: or. A Florida Republin who sponsored the state’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn rigned om office Thursday, a day after he was dicted on charg of dg the ernment of ronavis relief funds. Hardg first gaed notoriety earlier this year for sponsorg the state Hoe versn of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which effectively forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty many elementary school classrooms.

STRICTLY LEGAL: SU OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FAILS

Civil rights groups have lambasted the legislatn as homophobic and hateful, and rearch found a surge anti-LGBTQ hate sce went to effect.

DELAWARE VICE CHANCELLOR L DISNEY OPPOSN TO DON’T SAY GAY BILL WAS WH S RPORATE RIGHTS

To unrstand the duplicy of the book-banners Florida, you only have to do two thgs:Listen to what they claim their censorship laws will look to see what actually phg this year to expand Florida’s so-lled “Parental Rights” bill, the one crics have dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” sce censors materials that mentn sexual orientatn, sponsor Clay Yarborough got on the floor of the Florida Senate and said he simply wanted to stop pornographic filth om beg hand out public schools.

It also not that, sce state lawmakers recently expand their “Don’t Say Gay” law, the thors expect the book to be banned for middle-schoolers as well as of July 1.

But ’s a fact that triggers some Leon County, a mother has challenged a children’s book about tennis legend Billie Jean Kg that mentns Kg is gay. The Florida state Senate passed the "Don't Say Gay" bill Tuday on a mostly party-le vote, and now will go to Gov. Smh (D), who is gay, was able to articulate that msage a lot more clearly, the AP reports: This bill, om s troductn, has been ed as vehicle to margalize and attack LGTBQ people...

FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLS, EXPLAED

Dennis Baxley, explaed why he thought the legislatn is need: Maybe beg gay or transgenr is only a fad, and maybe the state n tamp down on all the kids turng gay by preventg children om knowg that gay and trans people 's gay panic ndor was prompted by a qutn om state Sen. That led Baxley to rell a discsn he'd had wh his son, a psychiatrist and therefore an expert on everythg:After hours of nyg his bill sgled out gays, Senator @nnisbaxley admted the so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill was drafted bee he was personally ncerned so many kids today intify as gay and see themselv as “celebri.

FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLS, EXPLAED

" I jt read an article this week we're tryg to all figure out why this is 's some very good sciencg there: Baxley perceived that there's a lot more kids who are out the days, and back the good old days when people uld be fired or beaten up or labeled "viant" and maybe subjected to psychiatric treatment to turn them straight, he didn't see as many gay people, so maybe 's a crazy fad like pogs or the hula went on, oh, how he went on:Some of is, I'm sure, cultural shift of what's accepted and that kd of thg.

FLORIDA GOP LAWMAKER WHO SPONSORED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL RIGNS AFTER FRD CHARG

He jt r so much about young people who might be nfed about their inty that he wants to make sure they mature the right way, which is to be straight and 's also very worried that a lot of kids ci to bee gay or trans out of a goofy adolcent need to stand I thk 75 percent of people that I see polled on this bill, they agree wh me that there's somethg wrong wh how we're emphasizg this, and how, all of a sudn, overnight, they're a celebry when they felt like they were nobody. " He may not know how much sexual inty is fluenced by that sire to be a celebry, but he spects the full force of state law ought to snuff attempted to summarize Baxley's thoughts, such as they were:Polsky: So basilly, what I jt heard you say, jt to nfirm, that there seems to be a big uptick the number of children who are g out as gay or experimentg, and therefore we need to not discs the younger gras. 0]Please keep Wonkette gog forever wh a $5 or $10 monthly donatn, so we n yell GAY at you!

BriefgEverythg you need to know about the ntroversial legislatnA ntroversial piece of legislatn monly known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill passed the Florida Senate after beg approved by the Hoe Febary 2022.

Notably, the "Don't Say Gay" nickname was created and spread by activist opponents of the bill. The bill do not seek to prohib the e of the word "gay" schools, s supporters schools forced to "out" LGBT stunts? "Arjee Rtar, an assistant profsor of epimlogy at the Universy of Washgton, told NPR the bills go beyond jt legal amework and are "an overt form of stctural transphobia and homophobia, and go agast all public health evince creatg a safe and supportive environment for transgenr, nonbary, queer, gay and lbian youths and teachers to thrive.

STT MAXWELL: FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW LEADS TO CENSORSHIP OF CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK ON PENGUS

" The bill failed relatively 2011, Campfield, by then a state Senator, retroduced the legislatn, which also clud language that uld be terpreted as requirg tors to "out" gay stunts to their parents.

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This time, attracted natnal and ternatnal attentn, and crics quickly ed the phrase "Don't Say Gay" to scribe several years legislative limbo, Campfield's bill passed the state Senate 2015 but never beme has the reactn to the bill been?

Occupy Democrats wrer David Weissman falsely claimed Republins had "banned the word gay the state of Florida.

Anna Eskamani (D) shared a TikTok montage of var people sayg "gay" to their phone meras has the name of the bill been so ntroversial? Google search for "don't say gay" vastly outnumber search for "parental rights tn. " Media outlets cludg ABC, The Associated Prs, CBS and NBC have referred to the legislatn as "Don't Say Gay" headl.

FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL, EXPLAED

Smh (D), who is gay, blasted Phaw for "openly acc[g] opponents" of the bill of beg "pedophil. "Don't Say Gay" or "Don't Say Gay or Trans" is a nickname for anti-LGBTQIA+ legislatn the Uned Stat.

In Florida, "Don't Say Gay" (aka "Don't Say Gay or Trans") is the nickname origally given to Parental Rights Edutn, anti-LGBTQIA+ legislatn passed by the Florida Legislature 2022, and to subsequent tn bills that would expand upon . ↑ Laviet, Matt: "As Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' law tak effect, schools roll out LGBTQ rtrictns" (2022-06-30). Florida ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill amendment would force schools to out stunts 6 weeks.

DON'T SAY GAY

Activists have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill and warn will stigmatise LGBT people and s proponents say the legislatn is about protectg parental proposal was troduced the state Hoe of Reprentativ last month. "State laws that ban or nstra the discsn of LGBT life classrooms - sometim referred to as "no promo homo" laws - are not unmon.

'DON'T SAY GAY': BIN NOUNC 'HATEFUL' NEW FLORIDA BILL

Several were troduced the 1970s and 1980s, closely rrelated wh anti-gay rights activism at the time, but many have long been repealed.

"The larger issue wh all of this is parents mt have a seat at the table when to what's gog on their schools, " he told reporters on LGBT advot have warned the legislatn will harm the mental health of LGBT youth and unrme their existg protectns unr the law while movg Floridians away om a more clive school ptn, Rory Wa said he found "homophobia was very normalised daily nversatn" durg his school daysMore on this story. But Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has sudnly sparked a natnal war of recent weeks, lears of global rporatns, edorial boards of major newspapers and Hollywood actors have all weighed on the proposed legislatn, wh some llg “eply disturbg” and others “nonntroversial.

HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

” Conversely, opponents say would unfairly target the LGBTQ muny — particularly gay and trans stunts — and is “pretendg to solve a problem that don’t exist. For starters, cricism that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill do not fact say “gay” anywhere s text is te. The bill, which passed Florida’s Senate last week and the state’s Hoe of Reprentativ Febary, do, however, nta the terms “sexual orientatn” and “genr inty, ” each legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn.

“The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ moniker is a moniker about a certa polil amg of this suatn. ”Beyond brandg, a re argument over the bill centers around whether would prohib the “stctn” or “discsn” of sexual bill’s sponsors have emphatilly stated that the bill would not prohib stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 adly attack on the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando.

Opponents gather for a Safe Schools South Florida & Friends rally to ph back agast the so-lled Don't Say Gay bill at the Pri Center Wilton Manors, Fla., on Feb.

'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD LIM DISCSN OF SEXUALY AND GENR FLORIDA SCHOOLS

Supporters say the measure empowers parents who serve to have a say what their children learn, but crics — who've dubbed the proposal the "Don't Say Gay" bill — argue that will strip protectns om LGBTQ kids and have a chillg effect on tors. The proposed law, often referred to by crics as “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn, bans public school districts om “enuragg” classroom discsn of sexual orientatn or genr inty. What is Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill?

The Republin-domated Florida legislature passed a bill on Tuday which would forbid stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra, rejectg a wave of cricism om Democrats that margaliz LGBTQ+ proposal, which opponents have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, now mov to the sk of the Republin ernor, Ron DeSantis, who is expected to sign to s ceptn, the measure has drawn tense opposn om LGBTQ+ advot, stunts, Democrats, the Whe Hoe and the entertament dtry, amid creased attentn on Florida as Republins ph culture war legislatn and DeSantis ascends the GOP as a potential printial ndidate.

Dozens of stunts and advot flood mtee rooms durg the early stag of the bill procs and then packed the halls of the legislature as moved toward fal passage, often wh chants of “We say gay!

WHAT FLORIDA'S "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL COULD MEAN FOR LGBTQ KIDS

DeSantis has chafed at llg the proposal the “Don’t Say Gay” bill bee he said would apply to stctn on any genr inty or sexual orientatn.

Ron DeSantis (R) signed to law a measure, the Parental Rights Edutn bill, that crics have succsfully labeled the “Don’t Say Gay” certaly aims to lim LGBTQ discsn schools.

‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: FLORIDA SENATE PASS LAW MARGALIZG LGBTQ+ PEOPLE

For olr stunts, discsn about gay and transgenr issu has to be “age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate.

A bill workg s way through the Tennsee legislature would prevent schools om g textbooks or materials that “promote, normalize, support, or addrs lbian, gay, bi-sexual, or transgenr issu or liftyl. Florida's Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by LGBTQ activists, is on Gov. Meanwhile, bate ntu on this legislatn and what would mean for schools, teachers, stunts and bill n be read full do the 'Don't Say Gay' legislatn exactly say?

FLORIDA'S NTROVERSIAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL: WHAT'S SI THE PROPOSED LAW

Defg those terms, cludg "heterosexualy, homosexualy or bisexualy" and "genr-related inty, appearance or behavr, " uld clear up what the bill would ban, she said. Florida Hoe Republins advanced a bill, dubbed by opponents as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, to forbid discsns of sexual orientatn and genr inty schools. Danny Burgs also later add that the standard unrstandg of the terms is what the law would activists ll "Don't Say Gay"?

Durg the Senate bate, Baxley slammed the nickname bee the bill do not have the word "gay" . However, the bill's nickname om activists has bee "Don't Say Gay" and "Don't Say Trans" bee advot have said they believe would make LGBTQ people taboo once aga classrooms, settg back the progrs ma by the LGBTQ muny the last few advocy anizatns say the bills are remiscent of the "no promo homo" laws of the 1990s that barred tors om discsg LGBTQ topics school classrooms.

‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PASS FLORIDA, GO TO ERNOR

A sign was ed a "Don't Say Gay" prott downtown Fort Myers, March 6, 2022. The march was held to prott Florida's "Don't Say Gay" Wt/The News-Prs via USA Today NetworkAt least four stat still have such laws on the books, cludg Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma.

"One of the differenc between the bills and some of the 'no promo homo' laws that passed the 1990s is the heavy-hand mandate on parent and fay volvement, " Melanie Willgham-Jaggers, the executive director of LGBTQ advocy group GLSEN, told ABC add: "We've learned that the prence of even one supportive adult mak all the difference. Jon is the first openly gay man the Florida Senate. Members and supporters of the LGBTQ muny attend the "Say Gay Anyway" rally Miami, March 13, 2022.

FLORIDA ‘DON’T SAY GAY BILL’ SIGNED BY GOV. RON DANTIS

"This bill is not tend to out gay children. Members and supporters of the LGBTQ muny attend the "Say Gay Anyway" rally Miami, on March 13, 2022. Opposn Democrats and LGBTQ rights activists have lobbied agast the "Don't Say Gay" law, which will affect kids krgarten through third gra.

The proposal, which opponents have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, now mov to the sk of Republin Gov. Smh, a Democrat who is gay, addg that “sends a terrible msage to our youth that there is somethg wrong wh LGBTQ people, that there is somethg so dangero or appropriate about that we have to be prohibed and censored om the classroom. Dozens of stunts and advot flood mtee rooms durg the proposal’s early stag and then packed to the halls of the legislature as moved toward fal passage, often wh chants of “We say gay!

FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS

The legislatn has phed Florida and DeSantis, an ascendg Republin and potential 2024 printial ndidate, to the foreont of the untry’s culture wars, wh LGBTQ advot, stunts, Democrats, the entertament dtry and the Whe Hoe nouncg what crics have lled the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

FACT-CHECKG 3 PROMENT CLAIMS ABOUT FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

READ MORE: LGBTQ+ parents fear their children will have to hi their fai at school unr Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill. Florida stunts staged walkouts and packed to mtee rooms and statehoe halls to prott the measure, often wh boomg chants of “We say gay! Smh, a Democrat who is gay.