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Florida Republicans are trying to ban teachers from talking about LGBTQ people
The bill would even prevent students from speaking about their own LGBTQ families at school.
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Antigay politician admits to secretly prescribing opioids for lover. She’s also his second cousin.
The doctor and author of Tennessee’s “Don’t Say Gay bill” was handing out prescriptions to family members. One of them was also his lover – and his nurse.
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Tennessee anti-LGBTQ lawmaker’s torrid affair with his cousin revealed
Court records show that since 2014, Dr. Joey Hensley has been having an affair with a married woman who is a nurse in his practice, as well as his patient and his second cousin.
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Anti-gay Tenn. lawmaker behind ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill defeated in reelection bid
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — An anti-gay Tennessee state lawmaker who has spent much of his legislative career sponsoring anti-LGBT bills, and who once blamed AIDS on a gay airline pilot having sex with monkeys, was soundly defeated Thursday in his bid for a second Senate term.
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StudentsFirst rescinds anti-gay lawmaker’s award in response to gay youth’s plea
Following weeks of mounting pressure from LGBT advocacy groups, it was an online campaign initiated by an 11-year-old gay student that finally compelled the education lobbying group StudentsFirst to rescind it’s “Education Reformer of the Year” designation awarded to Tenn. state Rep. John Ragan, a proponent of the state’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
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Tenn. gay youth speaks out against ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill and its supporter
Marcel Neergard, an 11-year-old gay student from Oak Ridge, Tenn., is speaking out against the state’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay” bill, and one of its leading proponents in the Tenn. state House, Oak Ridge Rep. John Ragan.
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Tennessee’s latest ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill dies in House committee
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A measure that would have forced schools to tell parents if their children have talked to a teacher or counselor about being gay has failed this session.
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‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill’s latest approach is to send gay kids to see a psychiatrist
NASHVILLE, Tenn — Another new version of Tennessee’s Classroom Protection Act, more commonly known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, would require teachers to send gay students to see a psychiatrist.
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‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill is back, with new provision to ‘out’ LGBT students
A Tennessee lawmaker on Tuesday resurrected the controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill which would prohibit teachers from discussing sexuality with their students, but with a new provision that would require school officials to “out” LGBT students to their parents.
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Missouri GOP lawmaker comes out while denouncing ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill
JEFFRSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Republican state lawmaker, Zachary Wyatt on Wednesday publicly came out to his colleagues during a press conference asking for the withdrawal of Missouri’s “Don’t Say Gay Bill.”