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In April 2023, Florida LGBT advocacy group Equality Florida issued a travel advisory for LGBTQ people to avoid visiting or moving to the state. [5] [6] The following May, the Human Rights Campaign signed on to the travel advisory, citing legislation recently signed by Governor DeSantis, while stopping short of calling for a boycott of the state ...
The act is officially titled the Parental Rights in Education Act and is described as "An act relating to parental rights in education" in the act itself. [1]It is more commonly known as Don't Say Gay, as it has been described in headlines by the prominent news agency, the Associated Press; [21] prominent domestic newspapers such as The New York Times, [22] The Washington Post, [23] and the ...
DeSantis signed the law, called the Parental Rights in Education Act, in 2022. The state expanded it last year . It restricts classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation.
Florida, challenging Florida's statutory same-sex marriage ban enacted in 1977. The lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed after extensive discussions with LGBT rights legal experts who suggested that Baehr v. Miike, a same-sex marriage case from Hawaii, would be a better first test on this issue. [28]
California will no longer allow state-funded travel to five additional states after each passed anti-gay and transgender legislation, officials announced, bringing the grand total to 17.
Equality Florida is a political advocacy group that advocates for civil rights and protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer residents of the U.S. state of Florida. Equality Florida consists of two organizations - Equality Florida Institute, Inc., the 501(c)(3) educational charity and Equality Florida Action, Inc., the 501 ...
The three plaintiffs argued that Florida’s law discriminates against them on the basis of sex and violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the equal protection clause of the 14th ...
California is seen as one of the most liberal states in the U.S. in regard to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights, [1] which have received nationwide recognition since the 1970s. Same-sex sexual activity has been legal in the state since 1976.