Tennessee is on an anti-LGBTQ+ roll, y’all. You may remember that I wrote about how gay country music star T.J. Osborne was supposed to get honored by the state legislature via a resolution.
But a Republican, Rep. Jeremy Faison, stepped in and said, “Uh, no. Too gay.” This pissed a lot of people off because it seemed so, well, petty.
Like, let Osborne have his day, you know? It’d be a cool thing for LGBTQ+ kids to see… oh, wait. We can’t let kids know LGBTQ+ people exist, let alone happy and successful ones, or they’ll all want in on the action.
If a teacher was going to give a lesson including the legislature’s snub of Osborne, however, that teacher would have to wait 30 days to give parents sufficient warning.
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