Florida city condemns school district for refusing to recognize LGBTQ History Month

Miami Beach Pride, 2019
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The Miami Beach City Commission has released a resolution condemning the Miami-Dade School Board’s decision not to recognize LGBTQ History Month due to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law.

The resolution encourages parents, parent-teacher associations, and school principals in Miami-Dade County to recognize October as LGBTQ History Month and to “teach LGBTQ history in their schools to the fullest extent permitted by the law.”

It also ordered the city to publish a sample resolution recognizing LGBTQ history month on its website that schools, clubs, and other organizations can use as a guide.

Out gay Commissioner Alex Fernandez sponsored the resolution, which passed 5-1.

Related: Miami-Dade school declines to recognize October as National LBGTQ+ history month

“This is about the history, recognizing that we have a history, that we exist,” Fernandez told the Miami Herald. “We’re not pushing it on [school administrators], we’re just giving them the ability to make a determination.”

Last week, the Miami-Dade School Board voted 8-1 against recognizing October as LGBTQ History Month. They were joined at their meeting by…

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