A video has surfaced on Twitter and TikTok showing Texas state Rep. Nate Schatzline, a Republican, skipping, running, and dancing in a park while donning a black sequined dress and a red eye mask. At the end of the roughly 90-second video — which plays over the song “Sexy Lady” by Javi Mula — the four participants are named, including Schatzline, whose character is called “The Virgin.”
Florida Rep. Adam Anderson, a Republican elected in 2022, filed a bill that purportedly sets policy relating to a person’s sex while at public K-12 education institutions. The bill defines sex as binary and says it must be treated by the state as an immutable biological trait.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been accused of creating fear around every corner, targeting the LGBTQ+ community, black community, the trans community, children, drag queens, and now, college professors.
It’s been said that history is often written by the victors, but in the case of the Civil War, the saying might not hold true. Although the Union army of the North won the war, the Southern Confederacy may have won the narrative that followed. No wonder, many adults educated after 1877 in U.S. public schools never learned about these five accomplishments achieved by — and injustices faced by — African Americans.
The Pensacola Christian College canceled an appearance by the Grammy-winning a cappella group The King’s Singers because one of the singers is gay. The King’s Singers’ final stop on their tour of the U.S. was
Broward school libraries will remove a sexually explicit teen graphic novel that Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration categorized as “pornography.” The book “Let’s Talk About It: The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human” was in the libraries of three schools, Fort Lauderdale High, Coral Glades High in Coral Springs, and Nova High in Davie. It has now been removed.
The Missouri bill is more restrictive than Florida’s “don’t say gay” law passed last year. Florida prohibits instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation from kindergarten through third grade, but Missouri doesn’t specify a range.
Missouri is currently considering a Republican-proposed bill that would ban discussions of gender identity and sexual orientation in schools, and the effects of this bill could be far-reaching. The Missouri Senate Education and Workforce Development
A middle school in New Jersey has removed rainbow-themed safe zone signs from its campus. Superintendent Peter Turnamian announced the change at a January 3 board of education meeting. The LGBTQ+-affirming signage at Long Valley
There has been a “dramatic expansion of book banning” across the US in recent years. According to PEN America, 41 percent of the books banned in schools across the 2021-22 school year contained LGBTQ+ characters
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