With all the bad news we're hearing surrounding more marginalization of the LGBT community (Florida, I'm looking at you and your horrendous "Don't Say Gay Bill"), we'd like to highlight one of our favorite designs yet: Beach please t-shirt with fabulous rainbow flip flops on the front!
Perfect for gay pride and queer pride, or even if you're an ally and want to show your support, this is exactly what you've been looking for.
But first, let’s talk about this Don’t Say Gay bill. Florida, you suck. You should change your name to bigoted and homophobic. So, they've introduced a bill making it illegal for ANY talk about the LGBTQ+ community at schools, and Florida teachers would be punished if they dare to talk to students about it.
This doesn't have anything to do with "teaching" about the LGBTQ+ community. There are no LGBTQ+ classes, courses, or curriculums because even though conservatives demand for it to be true, it's not. That literally is not happening anywhere. You can't just make accusations and it materializes that accusation into being. That's not how this works.
But homophobes and oppressors want to silence all discussions, including organic conversations that come up naturally. They want to prevent teachers from discussing it on any level whatsoever. And if children or other teachers do talk about it, they’ll to be reported.
So that means if a kid has two moms or two dads, they can't talk about their family beach vacations. It means teachers can't answer any questions that kids may have about the LGBTQ+ community. It means children will no longer be safe coming out at school. If they live in a homophobic religious household, that means these children won't be welcome either at home or at school, which is often these kids’ safe place.
This is blatant discrimination and marginalization of the LGBTQ+ community, and it means that the Florida government is overreaching and censuring what people can and cannot talk about. This violates federal protections the LGBTQ+ community has as well as infringes upon free speech.
For the party that screams about government overreach and "less government," they sure do love to give the government overreach and have more government.
We must fight back! We must get LOUD! The religious, extremist right is louder than us, which is how they’re passing all sorts of homophobic laws. This is also part of their tactic to exhaust their enemies so that we’ll just give up the fight.
Don’t give it up. Don’t let them take freedoms. Their goal is to enact Christian nationalism laws for force this country into a fascist theocracy. They’re on the way there. All it takes for them to complete this goal is for good people to remain silent.
One of the first things we need to do is TAX THE CHURCHES! And show your support that LGBTQ+ lives matter. Remember that diversity is to be celebrated, not oppressed. People oppress things they don't understand or are afraid of- or, as is often the case with homophobic, overly religious people, a closeted homosexual who hates who they are at their core so much that they take out that anger by misdirecting it to the LGBTQ+ community.