Florida Loses Out on Pivot Conference in Backlash Over ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Vote
Kara Swisher called the Republican-backed bill a ‘shameful act by the Florida GOP’
The organizer of a major technology and media conference scheduled for next year in Miami said she won’t hold the event in Florida after lawmakers on Tuesday passed a bill that limits teachers from discussing sexual and gender identity with kids in kindergarten through third grade.
Kara Swisher, a co-host of the Vox Media Pivot podcast who is gay, called the Republican-backed bill a “shameful act by the Florida GOP” in a post on Twitter. She said that the bill is “an unnecessary piece of legislation that addresses a non-problem meant to mask homophobia with an emotional blanket of parental rights.” She tagged Colorado Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat who is gay, in a post, saying she’d be in touch.