don't say gay bill

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Civil rights attorneys win settlement in ‘Don’t Say Gay’

Civil rights won a rare victory in Florida on March 11 when Florida education officials and civil rights attorneys reached a settlement that allows students and teachers to discuss sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida classrooms as long as it’s not part of instruction.  Florida’s House Bill

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3 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Florida students weigh in on new school year as discriminatory policies take effect

Students recently pushed back against the policies at a Miami-Dade County school board meeting

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5 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Florida parents struggle with discriminatory policies in schools

As the school year kicks off, parents feel the effect of far-right policies put in place by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Department of Education

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6 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Florida Public School teachers wary of a new school year with new restrictions

Florida teachers weigh in on the tight restrictions imposed by the governor as the new school year begins

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5 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Florida prepares to expand ‘Don’t Say Gay’ up to 12th grade

Teachers in the state fear being criminalized if the “Don’t Say Gay” bill expands

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3 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Florida advances a bill censoring university DEI, gender studies, and queer studies

The bill is the latest in a series of extreme censorship by conservative state lawmakers

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4 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Florida college students and educators plan to continue resisting DeSantis’ censorship

The governor continues to introduce laws and policies that erase LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC experiences

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7 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Florida public colleges say DeSantis is censoring their curriculums

Students, teachers, and advocates across the state say they are concerned with DeSantis’ ongoing censorship and how it will impact their education

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6 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Keeping LGBTQIA+ communities safe requires revolutionary strategy and solidarity in action

As conservatives ramped up their threats against LGBTQIA+ communities this year, Prism covered the challenges and solidarities that bloomed

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2 Min
By: Lara Witt

Florida adds more homophobic censorship laws to ‘Don’t Say Gay’ suite of bills

The Florida Board of Education voted unanimously on new guidelines designed to threaten school districts and teachers that support LGBTQIA+-inclusive policies

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4 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

LGBTQ+ families and advocates juggle caregiving with movement-building

Family Equality CEO Stacey Stevenson discusses the fight for LGBTQ+ rights and their experiences with homophobia while starting and taking care of their family

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6 Min
By: Pamela Appea

Laws targeting free speech about abortion would put journalists in the line of fire

The NRLC’s model law targeting websites that “encourage” abortion are part of a long history of suppressing speech—including news coverage—that centers on marginalized people in the U.S.

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5 Min
By: Ashton Lattimore

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