Florida teen goes viral educating history teacher on Stonewall. Now the school is “investigating.”
#SayGayAnyway pic.twitter.com/A73TKPlWXF— Will Larkins (@ProudTwinkie) April 3, 2022Among the outpouring of support, some commenters questioned why Larkins chose to wear a dress to deliver the presentation.They answered simply “because I wanted to” in a follow-up tweet, sharing several other fabulous shots:A lot of people in the comments are asking why i “had to wear a dress”The answer is, because I wanted to.
https://t.co/9VQzTTMTTQ pic.twitter.com/5sngGuB8xM— Will Larkins (@ProudTwinkie) April 4, 2022After the Washington Post covered the story, Larkins says their school is “currently investigating me about this piece because my history teacher doesn’t like it.”My school is currently “investigating” me about this piece because my history teacher doesn’t like it.
bruh. https://t.co/2fFESHZXjE— Will Larkins (@ProudTwinkie) April 6, 2022Larkins, who is the co-founder and president of the Queer Student Alliance, testified against the “Don’t Say Gay” bill at its final Senate hearing and organized a student walkout in protest before it passed.I spoke today at the final #DontSayGay bill Florida Senate committee.
Unfortunately, they passed it 12-8 but the fight is NOT over. pic.twitter.com/IN6ub6UeMK— Will Larkins (@ProudTwinkie) February 28, 2022In a recent New York Times op-ed, Larkins wrote that “under threat of lawsuits, districts, schools and teachers may be hesitant to talk at all with students about gender identity and sexuality, even if the conversation is ‘age-appropriate.'”“When I look back to elementary school,” they continued, “I wonder how different my childhood would have been had my classmates and I known that I wasn’t some tragic anomaly, a strange fluke that needed to be fixed.
