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Resistance Report Week 2: Divorcing from DeSantis
Equality Florida's week two Resistance Report recaps its Pride At The Capitol kickoff, where 225-plus volunteers demanded lawmakers reject DeSantis's agenda, naming new Rep. Tom Keen a winner and Reps. Randy Fine and David Borrero losers over the Pride Flag Ban Bill.
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Equality Florida 2024 Legislative Slate
Equality Florida's 2024 Legislative Slate tracks its positions and outcomes on bills including the Trans Erasure Bill, Don't Say Gay or Trans at Work, employment-protection preemption, the Pride Flag Ban, and a ban on law enforcement safe-space stickers, most of which were stopped or neutralized.
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Miami-Dade County School Board Votes 5-3 Against LGBTQ History Month Proclamation
After a 10-hour hearing, the Miami-Dade County School Board voted 5-3 to reject a proclamation recognizing October as LGBTQ History Month, which Equality Florida said reflected capitulation to DeSantis's influence and far-right pressure.
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Raising Our Flags High In Honor Of Lauri Carleton
Equality Florida mourned Lauri Carleton, a California store owner and LGBTQ ally murdered for flying a Pride flag, blaming DeSantis and lawmakers for stoking hate violence and urging supporters to fly their flags higher in response.
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Resistance Report Week 9: Anti-LGBTQ Bills Fast-Tracked through the Legislature
Equality Florida's Week 9 Resistance Report marked the end of the 2023 legislative session, in which the GOP supermajority passed an unprecedented Slate of Hate including SB 254 and the Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill.
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Resistance Report Week 8: Drag Queens And Allies Descend On The Capitol
Equality Florida's Week 8 Resistance Report covered hundreds of drag performers and allies descending on the Capitol to #DragDeSantis, and the advancement of the License to Discriminate in Healthcare bill, which passed the Senate 28-11.
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Resistance Report Week 7: 3 Anti-LGBTQ bills passed the House
Equality Florida's Week 7 Resistance Report covered the Florida House passing three anti-LGBTQ bills targeting transgender people, including the Anti-Drag Bill heading to DeSantis's desk, and the Board of Education expanding Don't Say LGBTQ through 12th grade.
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Resistance Report Week 6: The Fight Back & Protests Continue
Equality Florida's Week 6 Resistance Report covered the advancing Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill and Rep. Webster Barnaby's hate-filled rant calling transgender people 'mutants, demons, and imps,' prompting calls for his resignation.
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Resistance Report Week 5: They’re rubber stamping DeSantis’ Slate of Hate – But we’re still fighting back
Equality Florida's Week 5 Resistance Report noted the Republican supermajority rubber-stamping DeSantis's Slate of Hate, including the gender-affirming care criminalization bill and an anti-drag bill amendment targeting pride parades.
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Resistance Report Week 4: Bad Bills Head to the Floor
Equality Florida's Week 4 Resistance Report, marking Transgender Day of Visibility, covered a student-led March for Queer and Trans Youth Autonomy at the Capitol as anti-LGBTQ bills including SB 254 headed to floor votes.
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