Florida School Board Axes LGBTQ Month at Fiery, Proud Boy-Filled Meeting
Parents and community members exchanged jabs during a heated six-hour Florida school board meeting Wednesday night that concluded with officials voting against a resolution that would make October LGBTQ History Month.
The Miami-Dade School Board meeting was impassioned, with supporters bringing up the decades of discrimination LGBTQ members have faced—including during the Holocaust—and critics decrying the measure as a “Satanic doctrine.” Even the right-wing extremist Proud Boys showed up to hurl their disgust toward the proposal, the Miami Herald reported.
The district had already passed an initiative last year recognizing October as LGBTQ History Month. This year’s resolution revised that plan by adding key Supreme Court rulings affecting the LGBTQ community to the 12th-grade curriculum. That proposal failed during an 8-1 school board vote.