FLORIDA'S HOUSE BILL 1557: How We Got Here

Relating this troubling history to Florida's House Bill 1557, it is also vital to recognize the salient history of cisheterosexist activism in The Sunshine State. [...]by 1980-only three years after the SOC formally began-religious conservatives had found an enduring political home at the cente...

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Published in:American educational history journal 2023-01, Vol.50 (1-2), p.47-61
Main Author: DeCuir, Amaarah
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antisocial personality disorder
Bills, Legislative
Bryant, Anita
Calculus
Child Abuse
Civil rights
Community Relations
Criminals
Education
Elementary Secondary Education
Ethnic Groups
Gays & lesbians
Hegemony
Homosexuality
Instructional Materials
Legislation
Legislators
Lesbians
Mediation
Minority Groups
News agencies
Parent Rights
Parental rights
Political activism
Political parties
Politics of Education
Public Opinion
Public schools
Religion
Religious right
Resistance (Psychology)
Rhetoric
Sex crimes
Sex Education
Sexual behavior
Sexual Identity
Sexual Orientation
Sociopolitical factors
Sodomy
Teaching Methods
Transgender people
Transgender persons
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Summary:Relating this troubling history to Florida's House Bill 1557, it is also vital to recognize the salient history of cisheterosexist activism in The Sunshine State. [...]by 1980-only three years after the SOC formally began-religious conservatives had found an enduring political home at the center of the Republican Party's agenda, where conservatives dubbed their anti-LGBTQIA+ positions '"family values politics'" (Frank 2013, 129). Given the sociopolitical landscape, Representative Joseph Harding crafted House Bill 1557, known to its supporters as the "Parental Rights in Education Bill" and to its detractors as rebranded "no promo homo" or "Don't Say Gay or Trans" legislation (Diaz 2022). Harding's approach is a marked deviation from previous laws that lambasted or criminalized physical people (i.e., The Lavender Scare, Anita Bryant and the SOC, and sexual psychopathy laws) or private acts between consenting adults (i.e., sodomy laws). [...]under H.B. 1557, it remains legal to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, or asexual in Florida's
ISSN:1535-0584