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Episode 27: How Gay Rights Became "Special" Rights
On May 18, 2023, Florida Governor and Republican presidential primary candidate Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 1557, perhaps the most significant retraction of LGBT+ rights in almost half a century. Officially called the Parental Rights in Education Act, critics nicknamed it the "Don't Say Gay" bill because it made any expression of identity beyond the gender binary or heterosexual family illegal in Florida schools in pre-K through the 8th grade. That includes a teacher publicly referring to a same-sex partner or acknowledging that there is such a thing as gay marriage—or that children in the…
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