Florida’s anti-trans powers that be are coming at Monarch High School hard and fast.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 16 rejected Florida’s emergency request to overturn two lower federal court rulings that blocked its law that targeted drag shows.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s roaring war on drag is ending with one whimper after another. His latest defeat is his campaign against the Hyatt Regency Miami.
The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) launched an investigation into the hotel because a drag show was hosted at the James L. Knight Center, which is on the same property. Because people under 18 were admitted, DBPR launched an investigation saying the children would be harmed. The hotel caters to the Knight Center, and the state was targeting its liquor license. That type of loss can put an establishment out of business.
However, the bark was much worse than the bite. The hotel will pay a $5,000 fine and promise not to let children into shows that may have “lewdness,” which remains a murky term.
The Christmas-themed show, "A Drag Queen Christmas," was held last December in Miami. Video taken by a “concerned attendee” was brought to the attention of the governor’s office.
The settlement lets the state declare victory, but the fine will barely cover the cost of the investigation. A similar deal was struck with R House in Wynwood, where a video showed a child dancing with a drag queen on the sidewalk. After similar saber-rattling, the state settled for a fine and a promise.
After launching investigations into several venues in Florida, the governor and his Republican supermajority in Tallahassee passed an anti-drag bill. It cowed prides into canceling parades and fencing in events.
Hamburger Mary’s in Orlando sued to overturn the law, and a federal judge put the law on hold. In another defeat for DeSantis, even the extreme, right-wing, U.S. Supreme Court agreed to keep the law on hold while it works through the courts.
A co-founder of Moms For Liberty, the virulently anti-LGBTQ group, is being asked to resign her position as a school board member, after rape allegations against her husband and revelations she engaged in threesomes with him have surfaced.
At long last, Ron DeSantis was finally confronted on his bully tactics.
The head of the Republican Party of Florida is refusing calls to resign in the wake of rape allegations stemming from an ill-conceived ménage à trois.
The onePULSE Foundation announced on social media Wednesday that it would be dissolving and moving its assets, impacting its programming as well as the long-awaited building of a memorial to honor those killed at Pulse in 2016.
The Florida House of Representatives has introduced a bill that would prohibit employees from using pronouns that don’t align with their biological sex, as well as barring nonprofits from including gender identity and sexual orientation in their training.
Transgender Awareness Week is a mix of emotions — a celebration of progress, but also a call for change as trans rights are continually trampled. The week closed with Transgender Day of Awareness on Nov. 20, a solemn time to recognize the deaths of transgender and gender non-conforming people.
Like rats fleeing a sinking ship, the DeSantis campaign suffered a surprising defection last week.
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