"Don't Say Gay" Bill Harms LGBTQ and Everyone Else

 In impassioned and tearful testimony this week, Florida state Sen. Shevrin Jones pleaded with his colleagues to vote against the state legislature’s controversial Parental Rights in Education bill, known to its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Like other LGBTQ+ advocates, Jones, who is the state Senate’s first openly gay member, argued that the bill, which prohibits classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity that is not “age appropriate or developmentally appropriate” for children, would likely force LGBTQ+ students further into the closet and stigmatize the experiences of people who are not heterosexual or cisgender.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/597778-floridas-first-openly-gay-state-senator-on-dont-say-gay?fbclid=IwAR3XsHpScKvwrzXdzV4S3kkJJdBDcgtiCIZnRoJFlXXXCpduCGhWbbYSZVs

120 Women in STEM Commemorated with Statues

The Smithsonian is commemorating Women's History Month by honoring more than a hundred women who are changing the future.

The Smithsonian has unveiled a new historic exhibit featuring 120 life-size 3D statues of women who have excelled in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. 

The exhibit, at the Smithsonian Gardens in Washington, D.C., will be on display there and in select Smithsonian museums from March 5 to 27.

https://www.today.com/news/news/smithsonian-womens-history-month-120-statues-women-in-stem-exhibit-rcna18633?fbclid=IwAR0yPMayTasRfD6hCMehEqmr4U3k8XZnXFYqR1w60FWmP5dcIEi364TEcEU