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Pro-LGBTQ+ Companies Funded Florida Lawmakers Who Back 'Don't Say Gay'

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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. House and Senate committees have both approved their versions of the bill, and each version awaits action by the full House and Senate.The legislation would ban all classroom discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in the early grades and, for all grades, any mention not deemed age-appropriate for students, age-appropriate being a vague term and subject to interpretation.

It could mean that teachers could not deal with Supreme Court rulings on marriage equality, for instance, or that they could not let students with LGBTQ+ parents talk about their families.

It has been denounced by President Joe Biden and other leading politicians and activists, including Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten.The chief Senate sponsor, Republican Dennis Baxley, has a history of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and actions, Popular Information notes.

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