New York City is launching a digital billboard campaign, supporting LGBTQ visibility that will be displayed in five major markets in Florida for eight weeks, to lure Floridians unhappy with their state's "Don't Say Gay" law to the Big Apple, Adams announced.īoth Simmons and David Brown, legal director for the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, say the legislative activities taking place across the country are targeting other groups. New York Mayor Eric Adams, at podium, addresses a news conference in the rotunda of City Hall, in New York, on April 4. Ohio's HB616 has similar language used in the Florida bill.
But talking about families is part of her curriculum, and some of her students may have two moms or two dads. Teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity isn't part of the first -grade curriculum, Stephens told NPR. It drew immediate nationwide controversy - and had teachers like Paula Stephens worried.