LONGWOOD, Fla. — Yearbooks at a central Florida high school won't be distributed until images of students holding rainbow flags and a"love is love" sign while protesting the state's so-called"Don't Say Gay" law can be covered up.
The bill, signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, bans classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. Lawrence noted that the yearbook dedicates a separate page to the school's Gay Straight Alliance Club and elsewhere shows students at a pride march and holding rainbow flags. He said those depictions do comply with the policy.
School officials determined that the least costly solution would be to cover up that section so that the yearbooks could still be distributed to seniors before graduation and the rest of the student body prior to summer break, he said. Tiedemann told WKMG that students were supposed to have a party Monday to have yearbooks signed by their classmates, but that was canceled.