‘Don’t Say Gay’ amendment forcing schools to out students withdrawn as bill advances further in Florida

Lauren Pazienza, a 26-year-old events planner from Queens, has turned herself in to authorities in the shoving death of 87-year-old vocal coach Barbara Maier Gustern in NYC's Chelsea neighborhood earlier this month.

Lil Nas X returned to social media last week after taking a three month break, and he wasted no time getting down to the business of thirst.“I’m so happy i’m back on the internet. I missed me so much,” the 22-year-old musician joked.i’m so happy i’m back on the internet.

Associated Press 03/22/2022 04:45 PM EDT Link CopiedSALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed a ban on transgender students playing girls’ sports on Tuesday, becoming the second Republican governor to overrule state lawmakers who have taken on youth sports in a broader culture war over how Americans view gender and sexuality.Cox joins Indiana Gov.

After Cassie Randolph surprised fans with an appearance on the Bachelor season finale earlier this month, she joined Kaitlyn Bristowe for a candid interview about her reality past — and her off-camera future.

did so on Monday.Cox said in a letter to the Republican leaders of the state Senate and House explaining his veto that he believed the bill was changed too much in the final hours before the vote without necessary input from the public."Finally, there is one more important reason for this veto," Cox wrote toward the end of his letter. "I must admit, I am not an expert on transgenderism.

Kelly Clarkson has set the record straight on the news that she planned to change her name. The singer had reportedly filed documents in February to legally change her name, 20 years after she first found fame on American Idol. PHOTOS: Inside Kelly Clarkson's jaw-dropping $5.4m LA mega-mansion She has been requesting to be known legally as Kelly Brianne, her first and middle names.

Five Rings to Rule Them All podcast, where she expressed a wish to have seen her name on Outsports’ list of out Olympians. “That article came out, and I was scrolling all the way to the rugby section and I was hoping I was on this list,” she said. “That would be easy.

It’s been a challenging couple of weeks for Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.Lingering side effects from a COVID-19 breakthrough infection earlier this year have caused her to cancel several public appearances as she continues to recover from the virus.“It’s taken three weeks and still can’t get shot of it,” Camilla, who is triple vaccinated, told Hello! earlier this month. “Probably my voice might suddenly go, and I might start coughing and spluttering.”So that sucks.

Pour a tall cosmopolitan, kids, because HBO Max just announced And Just Like That will return for Season 2.And Just Like That continues the story of Sex and the City, catching up with Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her friends more than 15 years after the original series ended. The first season of the show snagged large ratings for HBO Max, with the streamer labeling it the platform’s most successful show to date.Critics and audiences, however, felt differently.Related: All the backstage drama that made us wonder, is ‘And Just Like That’ actually cursed?The series invited wide backlash even before filming began with the announcement that the popular character Samantha (played in Sex and the City by Kim Cattrall) would not appear in the show.

Gov. Eric Holcomb of Indiana vetoed a bill on Monday that would have banned transgender girls from competing in school-sanctioned girls’ sports, taking a sharply different approach to the issue than 11 fellow Republican governors who have signed similar measures into law in recent years. Mr.

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actor Steven Seagal continues to grow. Newly unearthed audio recordings feature the 67-year-old actor boasting about working for the CIA.

Obergefell v. Hodges decision created a new right that is not in the U.S.

In an interview with the Sunday World, Trans actress Rebecca Root spoke about how playing one of the protagonists in BBC Two sitcom Boy Meets Girl changed her life completely. Before that role, she said, finding work in the entertainment industry had been a struggle. Rebecca Root is a British Trans actor with Irish heritage, […]

Jonathan Bennett, best known as the male lead in Mean Girls, married his long-term partner in a beautiful beachside ceremony at the Union Riviera Maya Hotel in Mexico. He got engaged to his now-husband, TV host Jaymes Vaughan, in 2020 during a beautiful proposal captured on Instagram in which Bennett admits he “ugly cried”. The […]

study conducted by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law has revealed the staggering impact the swath of new and proposed laws banning trans youth from receiving gender-confirming medical care will have if passed. Specifically, more than one-third of trans youth in America — 58,200 of an estimated 150,000 kids aged 13 to 17 — are currently at risk of losing access to life-saving care.As of March 2022, 15 states have either banned access to or are considering laws that would restrict or prevent trans and non-binary youths from receiving gender-affirming care.In 2021, the Arkansas legislature put a ban in place on gender-affirming care impacting nearly 1,500 trans youths in the state.

On March 7, the Court of Rome in Italy recognised a person’s gender identity as non-binary for the first time in the history of the country. The sentence is of utmost importance, as it sets a historic precedent and paves the way for the future of non-binary people’s rights in Italy. The ruling comes after […]

Gay Project has announced that they are launching the first-ever Drag School in Ireland. The 10-week course was created in partnership with Cork Pride, Cork ETB, and St.

Ruthie Berman was in her 40s when she kissed her best friend, Connie Kurtz, for the first time. This was the 1970s, both married to men, both mothers, both members of the same, small Jewish community in Brooklyn. But Berman felt something she realized she'd never felt before: she was falling head-over-heels in love.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been slammed after she mocked a typo issued by South Wales police official Twitter account following a homophobic killing in Cardiff last year.The best-selling children's author, 56, mocked the police department which saw them mistake virtue signalling for "virtual signalling" in error.In view of her 13.9 million Twitter followers, Rowling pointed out the error in a recent tweet, which was met with fury from social media users."Like virtue signalling, but for people who aren’t really a***d."The author's post comes after the Welsh police department shared their LGBT+ outreach efforts near the site of a homophobic hate crime.Following Rowling's post, social media users flocked to the comments to weigh in on her tweet.@gracepetrie replied: "I don’t want to assume that this tweet is as badly motivated as it seems, so could you clarify that you’re not actually mocking the police for promoting the safety of the LGBT community in an area where a man was recently homophobically murdered."@AlGordon1980 added: "As a writer, do you do any research or is it just whatever falls out of your head first?"However, @RyanSpires8 fired back: "And how would she have known about the link to the Bute Park incident from the initial tweet? She was responding to it at face value like most of us do! As always people are using 'reaching' techniques to concoct faux outrage." (sic)While @CeilNoyle replied to the author: "Not that you'll care, and not that anyone should have to justify anything to you, but here's the context.""Virtual signalling.

Mykki Blanco first burst onto the scene just over a decade ago, they’ve added exciting elements of artistry and anarchy to the world of hip hop. Throughout their career, Blanco been open about their sexuality, gender identity journey, and about living with HIV. And through the years, watching this uniquely brilliant artist grow and evolve has been fascinating to behold.That evolution continues with Blanco’s latest single and video, Family Ties, which released today.

a photo of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas went viral. In it, a smiling Thomas stands on a podium, having won the 500-yard freestyle at the NCAA Division I Championship. Her opponents—all biologically female—stand together on the other end in what many interpret as a show of solidarity.The photo was like a Rorschach test: To some, it symbolized a grave injustice to girls' and women's sports.

Ron DeSantis is refusing to recognize transgender swimmer Lia Thomas' NCAA win last week and said the state is choosing to honor runner-up and Sarasota-native Emma Weyant as the winner of the 500-yard freestyle instead.On Tuesday, the governor issued a proclamation declaring Weyant as the "rightful winner" of the race, saying that the NCAA's decision to allow the University of Pennsylvania's Thomas to compete and win "erode opportunities for women athletes and perpetuate a fraud against women athletes."Thomas made history on Thursday as the first known transgender athlete to win a division one national championship after beating Weyant by 1.75 seconds.Weyant, who is a freshman at the University of Virginia, swam her fastest career time during the championship and the third-fastest time in UVA history, according to the college."By allowing men to compete in women's sports, the NCAA is destroying opportunities for women, making a mockery of its championships, and perpetuating a fraud," DeSantis tweeted.

There’s more to the Midwest than cold winters and deep-dish pizza. Take Michigan for example. Among its beautiful beaches, and rolling sand dunes, you’ll find a hidden gem—Saugatuck.Tucked away on the eastern shores of Lake Michigan, you’ll find this little “blink-and-you’ll-miss-it” city boasting a population of around 800 people.

Using homophobic slurs and dropping “gay” as an insult is never OK, even in the case of tyrannical world leaders.Amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia President Vladimir Putin has drawn condemnation from leaders around the globe. U.S.

Emmett Schelling, executive director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas, speaks at a rally protesting Gov. Greg Abbott’s anti-trans directive to DFPS. (Erich Schlegel/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign)

Kevin Spacey can’t seem to catch a break. A New York judge just ruled that sealed depositions in an arbitration suit related to the actor’s behavior on the House of Cards set are fair game in an ongoing sexual assault lawsuit against him.The two-time Oscar-winner saw his career crumble in 2017 when a series of former co-stars, students, and associates accused him of sexual misconduct.

The planned full day walkout at Disney today over the company’s fumbled response to Florida’s discrimatory “Don’t Say Gay” bill has seen an outpouring of support for the  LGBTQ+ community from some leading divisions in the House of Mouse’s empire

Disney's woes, Rachel Zegler has publicly expressed her disappointment that she wasn't invited to attend the Oscars, despite playing the lead in the nominated movie West Side Story.In an effort to quell the backlash it faced for the lack of response to Florida's Parental Rights in Education bill, Disney+ issued a public statement on Tuesday confirming it stands by its LGBTQIA+ employees, colleagues, families, storytellers and fans.All of this comes just a few days before the 94th Academy Awards, which is hosted on the Disney-owned network ABC. Between the likes of West Side Story, Nightmare Alley, Encanto and The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Walt Disney Company has 23 nominations this year.The Disney Do Better Walkout issued a public letter explaining its reasons for being frustrated with the company.

According to an inside source, Pixar is reportedly restoring a same-sex kiss in their upcoming feature Lightyear. The queer moment had originally been cut by Disney, with Pixar employees claiming that their parent company shaves LGBTQ+ representation “down to crumbs”. The film, which tells the origin tale of the Toy Story character Buzz Lightyear (voiced […]

similar laws seeking to bar transgender athletes from competing in other states have been blocked by federal courts. He also questioned whether the bill addressed any pressing issue, writing in a letter to lawmakers explaining his veto that the bill presumes “that there is an existing problem in K-12 sports in Indiana that requires further state government intervention.”“It implies that the goals of consistency and fairness in competitive female sports are not currently being met,” Holcomb wrote in his letter.

Disney’s LGBTQ employees and their supporters have begun a full day of solidarity actions to call attention to the company’s response to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.Meanwhile, Disney companies including ESPN, Disney Plus and Hulu, released Twitter statements in support of the LGBTQ community and against “legislation that infringes on the basic human rights of the LGBTQIA+ community.” The statements come a week after Marvel Studios made the same gesture on social media.Though most employees at Disney’s Burbank, Calif., headquarters have not returned to their offices, they are being asked to support the campaign by not working on Tuesday and sending messages on Slack and social media with the hashtags #DisneyDoBetter, #DisneySayTrans, #DisneySayGay and #WherelsChapek. When reached by Variety, Disney Walkout organizers expressed concerns about safety and retaliation, both internally and externally, which have deterred the group from organizing formal in-person rallies.On Twitter, Disney Walkouts affirmed their approval of the corporate messages shared today by Disney brands.

Orlando Sentinel reports. And it appears it will continue to fund them.The bill would ban classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in grades where it is not “age-appropriate,” a rather vague definition, and opponents say it would harm LGBTQ+ students and teachers. It has been passed by the Florida House and is pending in the Senate.

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This week, Rep. Joe Harding proposed an amendment to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill that would force teachers to out their students by notifying parents within six weeks of learning about their child’s LGBTQ identity.After introducing the draconian amendment on Monday, Harding withdrew it on Tuesday, following heavy pushback from Democrats, LGBTQ advocates, and people with basic common decency who don’t want to see children potentially put in danger.In a video posted to Twitter earlier this month, Harding defended the homophobic bill he co-sponsored as a way to “empower parents” and keep kids from talking about sexual orientation.The president and his team decided to distort the truth and outright lie about my bill that empowers parents.

Related: Rep. Joe Harding wants kids to be outed to parents, but that’s not even the worst thing about himHB 1557’s many detractors say it will have a huge impact on LGBTQ kids, the kids of LGBTQ parents, and the education of all children.Nadine Smith, Executive Director of Equality Florida, blasted the legislation.“Every child has a right to speak honestly about their lives, a right to have access to a history that is honest and includes them, and a right to library books that reflect and include who they are.“What we are seeing is the systematic erasure, or elimination of those resources for young people and a gag order imposed on educators.”Cathryn M.

[The bill] sends a terrible message to our youth, that there is something so wrong, so inappropriate, so dangerous about this topic that we have to censor it from classroom instruction,” said Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith, the first Latino LGBTQ+ Democrat to serve in the Florida legislature.“I want to make sure that for those LGBTQ youth in Florida and around the country and in the world who are watching, I want to make sure that they know this: You are loved, you are supported, and we will wake up every single day to fight for you because you are worth fighting for.”  A post shared by Logo (@logotv)The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, which allows parents to sue schools that ‘promote’ LGBTQ+ topics such as sexual orientation or gender identity, was recently amended so that teachers will not be forced to ‘out’ their LGBTQ+ students to their parents.

Florida’s House of Representatives passed the controversial ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill by a vote of 69-47 on 24 February.

Florida moves a step closer to making the controversial “don’t say gay” bill into law. The Florida House of Representatives on Thursday passed the legislation in a vote 69-47.If passed, the bill would ban classroom instruction on sexual orientation completely in kindergarten through third grade, and restrict educators from teaching about the subjects “in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”Florida Rep.

The Florida House held a contentious debate on the dangerously anti-LGBTQ “Don’t Say Gay” bill Tuesday afternoon, and despite numerous reports, one of the bill’s core tenets – outing LGBTQ+ children to parents – remains intact.

The Florida House is currently debating the dangerous “Don’t Say Gay” bill that could require schools to out LGBTQ children to their parents, and bans certain “instruction” on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill has been amended with a requirement for schools to out students once they learn of them being LGBTQ+.

An amendment added to the Florida “Don’t Say Gay Bill” will require schools to out LGBT students to their parents. The amendment to Florida House Bill 1557, filed by the Bill’s co-sponsor Representative Joe Harding (R) last Friday, would require schools to out sexually and gender diverse students to their parents within 6 weeks of discovery. The original bill still required disclosure but had an exemption if the disclosure could lead to “abuse, neglect or abandonment.” This exemption was removed in the current amendment. Florida Agriculture Commissioner and Candidate for Governor, Nikki Fried (D), tweeted, “This backwards cruelty must stop. Speak out against targeted hate legislation and support those leading the charge to protect civil rights like [Equality Florida] before it’s too late!”This backwards cruelty must stop.

A new amendment to Florida’s controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill would require schools to inform parents of their child’s sexual orientation within six weeks of learning the student isn’t heterosexual, NBC affiliate WFLA reported on Monday.

Governor Gavin Newsom slammed Florida’s far-reaching and dangerous “Don’t Say Gay” bill, urging Sunshine state lawmakers to stop pushing the legislation which he called “nothing short of a state-sponsored intimidation of LGBTQ children.”Newsom, who has a long history of standing up for LGBTQ people and same-sex marriage, rightly noted that the Florida legislation “will put kids – who are already navigating stress – in physical and psychological danger.”Indeed, the bill’s sponsor in the House is pushing a dangerous amendment to his own bill. Currently, the bill says schools must tell parents if their children exhibit mental or physical changes, which would include coming out as or even talking about possibly being LGBTQ.

The sponsor of Florida’s highly controversial and dangerous “Don’t Say Gay” bill is doubling down on the “outing” provision of his legislation, which is expected to get a vote by the full House Tuesday.

Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill has continued to make its way through state legislature, bringing it even closer to reality.

Popular Information reviewed campaign contributions from 2020 onward to the bill’s sponsors in the Florida House and Senate, the senators who voted for the bill in committee, and Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has not officially committed to signing it into law but has indicated support for it.