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Arizona Governor Signs Repeal of 28-Year-Old \u2018No Promo Homo\u2019 Law Banning Teachers from Promoting a \u2018Homosexual Lifestyle\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arizona\u2019s Governor Doug Ducey today signed the repeal of a \u201990s-era law<\/a> which forbid teachers from \u201chomosexuality as a positive alternative life-style\u201d or even suggest that \u201csome methods of sex<\/a> are safe methods of homosexual sex<\/a>\u201d in health classes.<\/p>\n

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Just signed #SB1346<\/a>. Thank you @TJShopeforAZ<\/a> for your leadership on this common sense solution, and for getting it done in a bipartisan manner.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Doug Ducey (@dougducey) April 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

KJZZ reported<\/a>: \u2018Arizona\u2019s [law] was created in the throes of the HIV\/AIDS epidemic, and after a 1986 recommendation<\/a> from the U.S. surgeon general that HIV\/AIDS education start at an early age. Lawmakers in Arizona initially resisted that recommendation, but that changed in 1991. \u201cRather than opposing it, they began to say, \u2018Well, if we\u2019re going to teach teenagers<\/a> about HIV, then we have to make sure that we\u2019re not teaching them how to be gay<\/a> or how to have gay<\/a> sex<\/a> or things like that,’\u201d [University of Utah law professor Clifford] Rosky says.\u2019<\/p>\n

The repeal of the law ends a lawsuit brought by Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights on behalf of Equality Arizona and LGBTQ students.<\/p>\n

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Today we’re throwing a FAREWELL PARTY for Arizona’s anti-#LGBTQ<\/a> curriculum law!<\/p>\n

This victory comes just 2 weeks after we filed a federal challenge to it with @NCLRights<\/a> @PerkinsCoieLLP<\/a> & law professor Clifford Rosky, on behalf of @equalityarizona<\/a>. t.co\/ASJZopVKRu<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Lambda Legal (@LambdaLegal) April 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Said Lambda Legal Staff Attorney Puneet Cheema: \u201cThe writing was already on the wall, considering that the Arizona attorney general had already signaled they were not going to defend the law in court. We are thrilled that state officials have moved so quickly to get this harmful law off the books and allow LGBTQ students \u2013 in fact all students \u2013 to get access to the medically-accurate information that literally could save their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Arizona Governor Signs Repeal of 28-Year-Old ‘No Promo Homo’ Law Banning Teachers from Promoting a ‘Homosexual Lifestyle’<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n