In an LGBTQ haven in Fort Lauderdale, residents say hard-won rights are being taken away. They want to convince Americans across the country to be concerned.
and the League of United Latin American Citizens to issue advisories to Black, gay, Latino and other visible minority travellers to steer clear of the state.“We need more people here,” says Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis, who is himself gay. “We need more African Americans, more LGBTQ people. We need more and more and more to stand up to and stand up against the bigotry and hatred.
“We started as this haven that was very affordable for people who were shunned elsewhere,” Caputo says. And on the same day earlier this month that DeSantis signed into law anti-transgender bills, Orlando police reported a digital traffic sign has been hacked so that it read,That’s why Griffon can’t sympathize with those who complain about the strict ID and stamp regime for those seeking entry to Hunter’s, a popular local nightclub.
Samuel Wright, a longtime educator and appointed member of Florida’s African American History Task Force, said that teachers are “scared to death” of being reprimanded or losing their jobs for straying from the rapidly changing school curriculum, which restricts sex education teaching, bans critical race theory and is now seeing books pulled from libraries if they fall afoul of conservative orthodoxy.
that threatens permit and liquor licence holders for exposing children to sexually charged drag performances — a mainstay of many Pride parades and festivities.Adrianna Tender, a transgender woman and program co-ordinator with Transinclusive, a Wilmot Manors advocacy group, said her own doctor recently refused to provide her with female hormones, which she has been taking on-and-off for years.
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