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25 08, 2022

LGBTQ Candidates Win Big in Florida Over Don’t Say Gay

By JRL Charts|2025-08-20T15:08:32-07:00August 25th, 2022|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Don't Say Gay Bill, Election 2022, Florida politics, Florida Rejects Don't Say Gay, gay Florida news, lgbt politics, LGBTQ organizations, LGBTQ+ Candidates Win Florida|

FLORIDA — (08-25-22) — Seven openly LGBTQ+ candidates running for state House and Senate seats in Florida, won their primaries on Tuesday night, advancing to November’s general election where Floridian voters will decide whether to triple LGBTQ+ representation in the state legislature. Florida’s legislature made national headlines in January when conservative anti-LGBTQ state Republicans introduced [...]

30 06, 2022

Florida Schools Roll Out LGBTQ Restrictions on Don’t Say Gay Law

By JRL Charts|2025-07-24T01:02:17-07:00June 30th, 2022|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Don't Say Gay Law, Florida Don't Say Gay Law, Florida politics, Florida Schools LGBTQ Restrictions, gay Florida news, Leon County School Board, LGBT News – Breaking LGBTQ Headlines, lgbt politics, Politics & Culture | JRL CHARTS|

TALLAHASSEE, FL — (06-30-22) — As Florida’s homophobic “Don’t Say Gay” law goes into effect on Friday, the state’s public school districts have rolled out their LGBTQ restrictions. After reviewing these new LGBTQ restrictions, it appears that the GOP's discrimination against the LGBTQ community is far worse than you could have possibly imagined. On Tuesday [...]

3 04, 2022

GOP Governor calls Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill ‘absurd’

By JRL Charts|2025-08-22T03:13:21-07:00April 3rd, 2022|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Don't Say Gay Bill, Florida politics, gay Florida news, GOP Governor Larry Hogan, lgbt politics, LGBT Rights News & Updates | JRL CHARTS LGBT Politics, Parental Rights in Education bill, Ron DeSantis|

ANNAPOLIS, MD — (04-03-22) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Sunday called fellow Republican governor Ron DeSantis "Don't Say Gay' bill 'absurd'. The Parental Rights in Education bill, which critics have referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill has divided the GOP among its hardliners and moderate members. “I think the bill was [...]

29 03, 2022

Florida Roadside Billboards Encourage People to ‘Say Gay’

By JRL Charts|2025-07-24T01:04:47-07:00March 29th, 2022|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Billboards Encourage Say Gay, Don't Say Gay Bill, Florida Billboards Say Gay, Florida politics, gay Florida news, lgbt politics, Parental Rights in Education bill, Ron DeSantis, Southern Progress Political Action Committee|

ORLANDO, FL — (03-29-22) — A massive Billboard campaign running across Florida is encouraging people to 'Say Gay', a response to newly enacted education legislation signed by Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday dubbed the 'Don't Say Gay' bill. Billboards starting popping up in some of Florida’s largest cities that include Jacksonville, Orlando and Tallahassee encouraging [...]

7 03, 2022

Florida High School Suspends Student Indefinitely After Handing Out Pride Flags

By JRL Charts|2025-08-03T20:02:45-07:00March 7th, 2022|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Florida High School Suspends Student, Florida politics, gay Florida news, House Bill 1557, Jack Petocz gay pride flags, lgbt politics, pride flag attacks|

PALM COAST, FL — (03-07-22) — A Florida high school student has been suspended indefinitely for handing out Gay Pride flags during a walkout to protest the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Flagler Palm Coast High School junior Jack Petocz was one of the organizers of the statewide walkout last Thursday to protest House Bill [...]

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