Don’t Say Gay 2.0 is Here Already, and It’s All About Hate

Think Florida’s law is bad? You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet!

James Finn
Prism & Pen

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The Seminole County, FL schools superintendent tried to censor these photos. The local community told her to go to hell. But jack-booted bigots in much of the rest of Florida are winning. Photo via The LA Blade.

What’s Don’t Say Gay 2.0?

In one stunning example, New Hampshire is about to pass a law that not only prohibits teaching about transgender and gay people in public schools, but requires teachers to report effeminate boys and insufficiently feminine girls to parents. Find details below about how Don’t Say Gay 2.0 is about to unleash genuine hatred in schools in Republican states. But first, let’s talk about the censoring, silencing, and shaming Don’t Say Gay 1.0 is already enabling.

Don’t Say Gay in Florida ushers in waves of shaming

Florida’s new Don’t Say Gay law prohibits teaching about gay/trans people/ ideas in kindergarten through third grade and makes doing so difficult or impossible in older grades. It plants seeds of shame in queer kids and teaches other kids that queer people are shameful.

The law doesn’t take effect for another 49 days, but jack-booted Florida bigots like Serita Beamon and Stephen Covert are already erasing, censoring, and silencing LGBTQ teachers, students, and allies.

The New Hampshire Senate is REQUIRING teachers to police…

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James Finn
Prism & Pen

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.