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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 ...
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 Senate Bill 254 (SB 254) is a law that prohibits gender-affirming care for anyone under the age of 18, places restrictions on adult patients accessing this care, and allows the state to take temporary custody of children who may be receiving gender-affirming care now or in the future. [1]
29 - Authorities in the Lumjung district in Nepal formally registered the union of an LGBT couple, the first same-sex marriage to be registered in the country. [ 33 ] 30 - Russia 's Supreme Court , in a ruling prompted by a motion from the Ministry of Justice , declared what it calls "the international LGBT public movement" an extremist ...
Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law has brought national attention to our state, and some people are wondering whether they should still visit. Dear Lois: For years, my husband and I ...
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 ...
Lawrence Keefe takes the Oath of Office as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida from Mark Walker, left, Chief United States District Judge on April 12, 2019 in Tallahassee, Fla ...
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]