Orlando Paper: Stand Up To DeSantis On LGBTQ Rights

From the editorial board of the Orlando Sentinel:

Orlando’s first gay nightclub, The Palace Club, opened the same year as the Stonewall riots. When Disney’s Magic Kingdom opened its gates, the City Beautiful took on added allure as a safer — though still not safe — space for non-heterosexual Americans to love and live their lives. It still took decades to unwind Florida’s layers of hateful, oppressive laws.

But as this Pride Month draws to a close, we must ask: How is it, in 2023, that we are sliding backward? Back, to a time when Florida teachers are warned not to talk about sexuality with their students and innocent books that merely acknowledge the differences among families are outlawed?

Back, to a place where official government sources refer to gay people as “groomers” and suggest their mere existence puts children at risk of predatory behavior? Where the governor seems to obsessed by the mere existence of drag queens, and not in a healthy way?

This is nothing to be proud of. So as Pride Month draws to a close, Floridians must make it clear: They are ready for this new fight to begin. They are ready to rebuke those who would force shame on people who yearned so long for the right to live in safety and with dignity.

Read the full article.

Pride Month ends tomorrow, but Floridians must stand up for love year-round https://t.co/9L4kSRbo9n pic.twitter.com/U7SnSFsrA0

— Orlando Sentinel (@orlandosentinel) June 29, 2023

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