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TALLAHASSEE, FL — (11-24-23) — Right wing anti-LGBT Republicans in Florida are moving to expand their 'Don't Say Gay' Law into Florida businesses. HB 599 put forth by Florida state Rep. Ryan Chamberlin, would bar state employees from using their preferred pronouns, and prohibit nonprofits from training employees on issues of gender and sexuality. Last [...]
BATON ROUGE, LA — (04-28-23) — Louisiana' right wing conservative state house is moving forward with its 'Don't Say Gay' bill that will cover grade K-12 throughout Louisiana public schools. State lawmakers advanced two proposals Wednesday that would prohibit the use of certain language when referring to LGBTQ+ Americans. House Bill 466, sponsored by right [...]
TALLAHASSEE, FL — (04-19-23) — Florida' right wing Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, expands his 'Don't Say Gay' agenda targeting the LGBTQ+ community by celebrating the passage of 3 anti-LGBTQ bills on Wednesday. DeSantis is celebrating his wins of a state board approving an expansion of his “Don’t Say Gay” law on Wednesday, and the state [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, MO — (02-08-23) — Missouri lawmakers are once again moving forward with an anti-LGBTQ bill that would ban teachers from discussing gender identity or sexual orientation at any grade level, no matter the class subject. LGBTQ advocates are calling it more extreme than Florida' "Don't Say Gay" Law passed last year. The anti-LGBTQ [...]
FLORIDA — (08-25-22) — Seven openly LGBTQ+ candidates running for state House and Senate seats in Florida, won their primaries on Tuesday night, advancing to November’s general election where Floridian voters will decide whether to triple LGBTQ+ representation in the state legislature. Florida’s legislature made national headlines in January when conservative anti-LGBTQ state Republicans introduced [...]
ANNAPOLIS, MD — (04-03-22) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Sunday called fellow Republican governor Ron DeSantis "Don't Say Gay' bill 'absurd'. The Parental Rights in Education bill, which critics have referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill has divided the GOP among its hardliners and moderate members. “I think the bill was [...]
BAY LAKE, FL — (03-11-22) — Disney CEO Bob Chapek apologized to LGBTQ+ employees on Friday, and announced Disney would pause all political donations in Florida to the GOP following a backlash of his lack of response to the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. “Speaking to you, reading your messages, and meeting with you have helped [...]
TALLAHASSEE, FL — (08-18-23) — For the second time in less than a year, a Central Florida federal judge has backed the GOP's "Don't Say Gay" Law by dismissing a lawsuit challenging the 2022 state law that restricts instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in schools. Last Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Wendy Berger issued [...]
TAMPA, FL — (03-21-23) — Rumors are swirling that the DeSantis administration's anti-LGBTQ ideology is moving to expand it's 'Don't Say Gay' Law to go up to the 12th Grade. In fact the GOP's war on the LGBTQ Community is moving to bar all public school teachers from providing classroom instruction on sexual orientation or [...]
DES MOINES, IA — (03-01-23) — The Republican controlled state Legislature is considering a bill that would permit residents to deny recognition of same-sex marriages on religious grounds. Nearly eight years after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage and several months after Congress codified same-sex marriage, Iowa Republicans have now proposed banning such unions in [...]