The Miami-Dade County School board voted against recognizing October as LGBTQ history month, as the effects of the Parental Rights in Education law continue to trickle down.
H-11, a resolution for Miami-Dade schools to formally recognize LGBTQ history month, stated that the month "has been established to remind all cultures within our wider community of the important roles that LGBTQ people have taken in shaping the social, historical, legal, and political worlds we live in today." It was voted down on Wednesday.
In 2021, Miami school board members voted overwhelmingly to recognize the month – 7-1. Just one year later,Board members expressed confusion over whether the initiative would break the classroom restrictions set by the Parental Rights in Education law. The meeting took a rowdy turn during the public comment portion of the night, with more than 100 people speaking that night, according to School Board vice chair Steve Gallon III. Debate over H-11 lasted more than five hours.Andrea S. Pita Mendez, the 17-year-old school board's student advisor, said after weeks of speaking to students, to teachers and others, she hoped the board would pass the initiative.
Members and supporters of the LGBTQ community attend the"Say Gay Anyway" rally in Miami Beach, Fla., March 13, 2022."I heard many of you speak of the fact that in your generations this wasn't seen, this wasn't heard – you grew up in a very different time than we are," she said.
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