Messages include: “People say a lot of ridiculous things in New York. ‘Don’t Say Gay’ isn’t one of them” and “Come to the city where you can say whatever you want.”
In a press conference with the New York City Mayor’s Office, the manager of the city’s LGBTQ programs through the education department relayed her personal experience growing up as a member of the LGBTQ community.“I was forced to be living with shame because I thought there was something wrong with me because no one was allowed to talk about it and that is not how any young person should grow up,” Kalima Mckenzie-Simms, LGBTQ programs manager at the NYC Dept. of Education, said.
Earlier this month these same billboards were posted in major cities around Florida, funded by progressive political action committees and attacking the same legislation. Governor DeSantis signed the bill into law on March 28 arguing that it merely affirms the right of parents to decide whether and how their children learn about sexual orientation and gender identity.“We have better roads, better services, higher-performing K-12 and the number-one ranked university system in the country and we do all that with no state income tax and the lowest per-capita tax burden in the united states,” DeSantis said.
“This political showmanship of attempting to demonize a particular group or community is unacceptable,” Adams said.The billboard campaigns are scheduled to display through next month. New York state has seen more migration to Florida than from Florida in recent years. In the last three years of the 2010s, more than 60,000 New Yorkers moved to Florida each year on average. By contrast, during the same period, fewer than 24,000 Floridians on average annually moved to New York state, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures.
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