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  Under this court, we as LGBTQIA+ people are sitting ducks. They even have 2 of them signaling they want to bring back sodomy laws back. America has reverted back 8 decades for real.
context: "Indecent is a 2015 play about the controversy centered around the 1923 production of God of Vengeance, which was shut down on Broadway for obscenity. It is also considered a queer Jewish love story. "
  You'd think they'd like a play about shutting down a play! >
  
  It's a really beautiful play which has a great filmed production available. It's hardly obscene and is in some ways about people overreacting to "obscenity." It's a moving and sad play. >
  
  I saw it on PBS a few years ago (when I was a closeted FL high schooler funnily enough) and it was stunningly beautiful, probably Paula Vogel’s best writing, and that’s really saying something! I can’t imagine a more ironic piece of art to censor, but given this state’s slide into fascism I’m not at all surprised. >
  
  What we are facing is wildly unprecedented and people truly have no idea of the widespread effects. >
  
  God, no it fuckin isn't. All this has happened before countless times before all across the world. >
  
  Cancel culture is really out of control in Florida >
  
  They are literally cancelling kids from living their dreams on stage. This is cruel beyond the pale. >
  
  They got a guy to run a college who wrote a book titled “The dumbest generation grows up”. He loves the kids. >
  
  “Indecent contains adult sexual dialog that is inappropriate for student cast members and student audiences,” Duval County Public Schools spokesperson Tracy Pierce told Teen Vogue on Friday. “It’s that simple. The decision has no relevance to any legislation but is rather a function of our responsibilities to ensure students engage in educational activities appropriate for their age.” 
  When I was in high school, I was in a play where two teenagers fuck after only knowing each other a couple of days. It ends in one of them committing murder, and then their double suicide. Not a single person objected to Romeo and Juliet, let alone tried to shut it down. We also read things like Of Mice and Men, Brave New World, 1984, etc. Not to mention studying world history.
  This is so much bullshit. >
  
  I teach in Florida. Nearly everything you mentioned is not allowed in our schools right now. What we are facing is wildly unprecedented and people truly have no idea of the widespread effects. >
  
  Serious question: what CAN they read? What's on the literature curriculum? >
  
  Okay it’s wild but our current curriculum selected and approved by my district doesn’t include novels. That’s elementary and middle but I do not know about high school since it gets weird with AP and dual enrolled and such. We read nearly exclusively non-fiction articles usually about benign topics that won’t offend anyone (I.e. orange groves, beach animals, how-to instructions, how plastic is made,…) and sometimes excerpts from books or short stories that are in the district approved textbook curriculum. Teachers have to follow the assigned curriculum and ALL are expected to be on the same page on the same day district wide regardless of their student population (I.e. gifted 5th grade and low performing ESE 5th grade read and do the same assignments at the same exact time). This is so that the district and state can walk into the room at any point and know what will be being taught and read. Teachers are NOT allowed to add any other reading materials not in the approved textbook curriculum to supplement (many of us secretly do but also many have been reprimanded for it). If you have a good principal, like mine, you might be encouraged to do 5 minutes of teacher read aloud from a choice fiction novel because the research shows reading fluently to kids helps them develop reading skills themselves and it’s fun! Media center AND even our classroom libraries have to be catalogued and every book pre-approved so kids choice reading is even censured. I’m telling you this stuff could NOT be made up! >
  
  How is the US government allowing fascist shit like that? Sounds insane. >
  
  Not insane at all, Republicans have a very clear and logical message about the cause of problems with schools and the solution. It goes like this:
  Trans people are bad, so we need to be worried about teachers grooming children to be abused by adults. To prevent that, we need to ban all books about homosexuality, then to make sure parents rights are respected, we then need to figure out what topics none of the parents object to, then teach hard right propaganda instead of those topics.
  Boom, education fixed. >
  
  
  Boom, education ~~fixed~~ neutered.
  
  Fixed that for ya. >
  
  Teen Vogue has been kicking ass and naming names the past few years, a lot different than my idea of it when I was younger (I’m old now). Quality writing and reporting, another excellent article. >
  
  Southern Baptists.  The one group it's actually illegal to offend in this country. >
  
  A story about the Southern Baptists had a predator cover up list so long, it could read as a scroll. >
  
  Why do conservatives hate free speech so much? >
  
  People learn how conservatives and their ideas hold no weight and thus cease to be conservatives. They realize the religion they learned as a kid was a lie, and that trickle-down economics is a farce. Then, they realize how hoodwinked they are and no longer remain conservatives. That's why they hate free speech. They want full autocracy and theocracy. They would trade America away for it. >
  
  I live near Jacksonville and this is (or was) an amazing school for creative kids. It’s sad to see such creativity shackled because of ignorance and bigotry. >
  
  The Florida government seems to be on top of making sure no students are subjected to anything vaguely lgbt. I wonder how on top of the next inevitable category 5 hurricane they will have. >
  
  Probably not at all. Desantis will probably blame that hurricane on trans people, I'm sure.
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  Because we know trans people and pronouns are the real problem today! /s >
  
  And then ask for tend to hundreds of millions in fema aid. >
  
  Well I hope the administrators don’t actually read The Seagull because it’s not exactly kid’s fare either. My guess is the school board is a bunch of megachurch attending halfwits who haven’t read anything outside of People magazine and figured a 120 year old play must be very demure. >
  
  DA is a super liberal school, with super liberal parents and supporters, I guarantee this wasn’t an admin decision but a district based one. >
  
  Wow the people shutting this down sure are snowflakes >
  
  That would imply they were unique. Unfortunately... >
  
  Well, think about it. A snowflake is only unique as it falls, it becomes broken and deformed when it lands. If it lands alone then it quickly melts away. It's only when these broken and deformed snowflakes clump together, becoming indistinguishable from one another, that they can survive. >
  
  Aren't most musicals pretty flaming? In fact even Shakespeare was a bit gender bendy. May as well ban theater entirely. And music. And women going about with their bare skin showing. Oh look you turned into the Taliban. Good job. /sarc. >
  
  The Republican Party is the Y'all Qaeda. >
  
  Can’t wait for free speech absolutist Elon Musk to speak out against this >
  
  I think he's still seething and crying over his daughter being trans and his ex-wife leaving him for a woman. >
  
  A trans woman no less. No wonder he hates us trans people so much. >
  
  wear it with a badge of honour, enough of us love you for who you are >
  
  That's what Fascists do. They ban free thought and free expression. >
  
  Ha! My tiny town in Washington state was about to have it's whole highschool play shut down by the principle because it had "gay themes" she quickly backtracked when multiple board members, parents, students and others protested and said she'd "need to approve the script"
  This is the same school that has a gender neutral bathroom by law, but keep it locked "we don't want kids smoking in there" so if you want or need to use it, you need to ask one of two people in the whole school to unlock it, you know. Opening yourself up to teachers and other staff to out you or harass you. >
  
  This is the sort of cowardly shit that admin need to stop being and feeding into. The admin need to start growing backbones and standing up for what's right, in the face of the Christian nationalists. >
  
  
  “Indecent contains adult sexual dialog that is inappropriate for student cast members and student audiences,” Duval County Public Schools spokesperson Tracy Pierce told Teen Vogue on Friday
  
  We need to get real about what high schoolers are actually like.
  The idea that high schoolers are incapable of understanding "adult" dialogue is an absolute farce. They see much worse shit on the internet on a daily basis. And you can go into the "young adult" section of any library and find a whole host of books full of sex and violence. Hell, Ender's Game, a near-universally beloved science fiction novel aimed at "young adults", has underage nudity and graphic violence - one scene even has both. And somehow people have been able to handle it just fine.
  Puritans fundamentally do not understand how human beings work, and seek to subjugate and control us based on their own ignorance.
  If you're wondering why millennials and gen Z are far more progressive than previous generations, this is one of the many reasons why. They remember the condescending attitudes of idiotic right-wing boomers. They are rejecting that bullshit overwhelmingly. Gen alpha will almost certainly be the same way. The right-wing is doomed. >
  
  Slight tangent. The Inbetweeners (UK) is one of my absolute favorite shows but The Inbetweeners (US) was absolutely horrible. Among the many reasons the US version was bad, and to me the top reason, is that there's essentially no dirty language. High schoolers have very filthy mouths and minds so any show that's set in highschool without foul language is really a big stretch on reality. >
  
  Wait, what? There was a US version?
  ...and it had little to no swearing?
  Good god.
  One of the most relatable things about those characters was how crass and pointlessly obnoxious they were. That's certainly what I was like as a stupid teenager!
  Like, fuck, to illustrate this shit, this is seriously how I fucking talked when I was a fucking fourteen year old public fucking school schoolkid. Almost every single fucking other word was a fucking swear word. Because fucking hell, that was the first fucking time I'd been fucking encouraged by my fucking peers to swear and so for fuck's sake, I did it with fucking gusto. Shit, what the fuck were they fucking thinking? That dumb pointless posturing shit is fucking integral to the teenage vibe. Especially the fucking era of the inbetweeners group.
  Looking back on it, it was incredibly obnoxious. Because I was a cringy dumb teen, like the main characters. Teenage me sat somewhere between Jay and Simon. >
  
  Keep in mind: one of the biggest supporters of the Don’t Say Gay Bill—Jeanette Nunez—opposes free speech.  She thinks free speech prohibits people from criticizing the DeSantis Administration. >
  
  So the 1st Amendment doesn’t exist in Florida.  If you don’t want to watch a play then sit the fuck at home. >
  
  It hasn't existed since DeSatan has taken office. >
  
  So Florida is the old Saudi Arabia? >
  
  I’m a Floridian. 
  Yes. It’s getting worse and worse here every day. 
  I think Desantis is going to go for a 6 week abortion ban very soon. 
  Desantis is a major fascist asshole. >
  
  I was a 15 year Floridian until June when I left because I saw how bad it was getting and there was nothing I could do to change anything.  I lived in Byron Donalds' district if that gives you any idea.
  Between the fascist takeover and rents going sky high, Florida is turning into more of a shitshow than it's ever been and it's only going to get worse. >
  
  20 year before moving back to Michigan.  I miss some of my friends but Fl and TX are both on my "never going there" list. >
  
  I went back to Michigan, too! >
  
  r/nottheonion it's censorship by religious prudes about a show highlighting the damage of that censorship ~100 years prior. Florida is still there culturally. >
  
  Just once I'd like to hear a conservative explain how LGBTQ+ affects them personally in any way. >
  
  It really doesn’t. But its a convenient way to get back at your side. 
  You push useless gun control solely to piss off their side. They push anti woke laws to piss off your side. >
  
  Who talks like this? >
  
  Fascist Floridians... >
  
  They should fight it with all they have. These 'laws' are as injust as the German 'laws' of the 30s against jews. It's plain fascism. >
  
  Yeah, don’t need to reach out to the Nazi treatment of Jews for an analog. These laws and this rhetoric are exactly the same as those the Germans used against LGBT back in the 20s. >
  
  So no Rent in Florida ever again? >
  
  No 
  Rent
  Book of Mormon
  Wicked
  Legally Blonde
  Actually, they probably don’t want Broadway at all. >
  
  Cancel Culture!1!1!1!1!1 >
  
  At this point, it's expel culture what Republicans want. They want to expel anyone's who not a white Christian man. They're starting with LGBTQIA+ people and working their way up. >
  
  Well said!! >
  
  Homophobes are woke >
  
  Oh shit they're making a new Porkys movie? >
  
  One of my first thoughts reading that headline was "shit, wasn't that the exact plotline to the 2nd Porky's movie?" >
  
  I hope they do it anyway.  It would be "good trouble" in John Lewis' words.
  What are they gonna do?  Arrest a bunch of theater students? >
  
  Have Desantis, Rubio or Scott done anything to improve the lives of Floridians? It seems like their main contribution is ignoring the pandemic and lying about the numbers but basically just turning Florida into an authoritarian state on its own seems to be there endgame. If there are rigged elections anywhere it seems like Florida would be the place or Kentucky. >
  
  Way to fucking go, Florida voters. You had your chance to stop this bullshit in its tracks; you threw that chance away. >
  
  I'm honestly terrified of Desantis and the fact he may be the next repub president >
  
  Sound like Ron DeSantis has gone woke. >
  
  Let me guess, The Seagull contains heterosexual love which is socially appropriate? >
  
  Yep. It's a play of 4 straight characters all falling in love with one another. >
  
  The school can fuck right the hell off, I think this is an easy first amendment case. However getting it past the current SCOTUS will likely be impossible. Worth the fight, absolutely, but expected to win? I would strategize how to capitalize on the exposure because a clean win is not likely once appeals start pushing it up the courts. Didn't LGBTQ lose their protected status recently as well?