A Florida high school tells its class president his graduation speech will be cut off if he references his LGBTQ activism. - NBCOUT
in March, Moricz led Sarasota County’s largest protest in opposition to the legislation. In the days leading up to the rally, Moricz said, school officials ripped down posters and told him to shut down the protest. In an email to NBC News, a school official said she does not have"any insights about the alleged removal of posters before the student protest."filed a federal lawsuit
“The reason something like the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law seems like nothing but is actually everything is that when you cannot talk about or share who you are, there is a constant subconscious affirmation that you are not valid, that you should not exist,” Moricz said. “I would not be fighting for these things, I would not be standing up for these causes in the way that I am, if I had not been able to do so at school first,” he said. “I think in the same way that school is where you learn so many important things about life, you also learn about yourself, and that looks different for LGBTQ kids.