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What it Means to Be LGBTQ+ in Florida
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The LGBTQ+ community has become Florida’s political battleground over the past two years.
In 2022, Gov. Ron DeSantis waged a heavily publicized war against drag queens performing in Wynwood. Last year, he signed a slew of anti-LGBTQ+ bills from the Florida Legislature. Most recently, the governor expressed a clear intent to challenge federal protections for transgender students against sex-based discrimination.
“We are living in a political moment where a vocal minority – just like during the fight for marriage equality – think that they should decide who has rights and who doesn’t,” said Todd Delmay, executive director of SAVE, Florida’s longest-serving LGBTQ+ political advocacy organization...
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