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Johanna Chisholm

Tensions flare at Miami school board meeting as panel votes against LGBT+ history month

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Tensions flared as a Miami school board delivered a near resounding no to a motion that would’ve recognised October as LGBTQ History Month - to the point that security had to intervene with attendees.

At a public meeting on Wednesday night, the Miami-Dade School Board voted 8-1 against the resolution which proved to be one of the latest testing grounds for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s recently passed Parental Rights in Education bill, more commonly slammed by critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

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