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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 bills were unsuccessful. Senator Tina Polsky filed a bill to repeal the statutory ban in December 2022, [7] [8] but it failed to pass before the end of the legislative session. Senator Fabián Basabe proposed a similar bill in October 2023, [9] which likewise failed to pass. [10]
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.
February 22, 2022 June 2, 2023 Blocked by injunction (order) September 1, 2023 (legislation) In February 2022, the state Attorney General ordered a ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth, with criminal penalties for failing to report suspected violations. [205] [206] However, the order is currently blocked by injunction. [207]
3. Jordan Gray. Listed as one of The Independent’s Top 50 Most Influential Women of 2023 in its inaugural list, Jordan Gray’s career trajectory skyrocketed when in 2022 she performed on ...
The NAACP, long an advocate for Black Americans, joined the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), a Latino civil rights organization, and Equality Florida, a gay rights advocacy group,
Following the issuance of the report, the United Nations urged all countries which had not yet done so to enact laws protecting basic LGBT rights. [15] [16] A 2022 study found that LGBT rights (as measured by ILGA-Europe's Rainbow Index) were correlated with less HIV/AIDS incidence among gay and bisexual men independently of risky sexual ...
Florida made national headlines when it enacted what critics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law in 2022, which limited the instruction of sexual orientation and gender identity in public ...