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Then you have led a sheltered life. In my own life the worst example was moving to a new house to be greeted with the word FAGS painted in red on the house.

Just stop it. The bill impacts ALL GRADES.

If you say so. Frankly I find your OBSESSION with favoring limiting LGBT visibility to be homophobic but yes I am well aware that homophobia continues to be very widespread. Evidence of that is abundant on this very topic.

Actually I would say in ALL countries there is a real or potential price to be paid for coming out. Things including being disowned by family, youth kicked out to the street by family, friends dropping you, bullying, employment and housing discrimination even if illegal, violent attacks up to incarceration and execution depending on country. In the US for example it is legal to fire someone just for gay identity and the republican right wing is on the warpath to scapegoat LGBT people and conflate them with pedos. The Florida bill is but one example.

This is a crackpot line of debate anyway. The Florida law nor does any other state law limit schools to math and science.

I said no such thing! I find your suggestion that homelessness is only about choice and mental illness in a time of historically massive rent hikes coupled with relatively weak wage increases to be incredibly offensive and truly disgusting! BTW try being borderline homeless or full on the streets for any length of time and see how your mental health holds up. Then there are those with fixed income, even worse if low. You got yours, why not just gaslight and blame the suffering of others only on themselves? How convenient. Back to the topic! Can you do that? The type of person I was talking about that would be in a total caca storm going back. Low ss check say 1200. Low assets. Not enough to buy even a basic <deleted> house in a <deleted> area for cash. No car. Could he afford one of your units? Obviously not. I recall you saying you wouldn't do Section 8. You and scads of other landlords. So what is the name of your SD area? What options if any would that returning expat have? I will check it myself if you say the area. Up to you. Referring to the actual topic here, obviously such an expat would be much better off staying an expat in a lower cost country. Able to afford a nice safe home in an area where a car isn't needed, to eat out daily if they want, to not worry about instant 50 percent rent hikes, indeed to live in dignity.

I am not going to be baited into a policy debate. I have already posted links about the direct correlation of dramatic rent spikes and increased homelessness.

Only 600 is it? Was that a typo? Source please.. There is also the definition of homelessness and how well the counting is done. Are these groups counted? Couch surfers Living in cars Etc. What about people who are working three jobs paying 75 percent of their income in rent basically one minor unfortunate event from the streets?

Trump is so not chilled about this! He's crapping his panties bigly on his ironically named Truth Social.

Obviously. Much more.

Gay people are like everyone else not a monolith. However its very clear that have PRE JUDGED any responses the root of prejudice. DeSantis' law is obviously a cynical exercise in inflaming and exploiting hatred towards LGBT people for culture wars political gain.

This topic is not about Gay Pride parades at which attendance is optional. Its about Florida schools at which attendance is required. LGBT people and topics are being made INVISIBLE by an authoritarian right wing demagogue who has a good chance of being president. Putin would love this deeply bigoted law.

... Is lost on you.

We have gays who are morons too.

Everyone is assumed by default to be straight and cisgender.. You didn't know that?

This increased during the pandemic for good reasons and now the habit persists. I get many many deliveries but not from my nearby convenience store which I do walk to.

To annoy people like you.

My personal experience in a decent well funded US school district in the 60's and 70's. LGBTQ stuff non existent in classes. LGBTQ kids and those suspect for any reason bullied relentlessly often violently. The schools offered no support. MOST but not all teachers made their relationship status public to the students. No openly LGBT teachers. I had a drama teacher who was gay but he needed to be aggressively in the closet if for no other reason than he could have been legally fired just for being gay. I did have a chance to talk to him after I graduated. He was badly damaged by the closet and had severe internalized homophobia.

South Dakota population represents what TINY percentage of the country? You have reported your anecdotal personal experience and that has value but hardly tells the bigger national story.

I have noticed that the majority of news reports about victims of very greedy landlords include information on landlord's POV and give them a chance to respond which they often decline. They also report the hikes as legal. Legal isn't the same as right.

Disingenuous.

I know the town from a family connection. Is it too early to speculate what the social media of the shooter apparently a young white man might look like?

Is basic just crappy housing only for the elite? This young woman brings up some obvious but not discussed enough points about the overall SOCIAL COST of such widespread housing insecurity. Tenant Puts Landlord on Blast After They Try to Increase Her Rent by $700 (dailydot.com)

They are very different holidays. I noticed some of the pushback (honor the military) to the Orlando letter seemed to imply that the 4th of July is more or less the same thing as Memorial Day. The 4th of July isn't even about victory against the British. At the time of the Declaration of Independence that victory was a long shot.

Yes, under oath. Doesn't need to be a court trial to be under oath. Lying to congress under oath is the crime of perjury. Similar to lying a FBI agent. Very serious!