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The Washington Post reports:
Former Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade moved his family out of Florida because of the state’s increasing hostility to LGBTQ people — including Wade’s daughter, Zaya. That revelation emerged in an interview Wade gave reporter Rachel Nichols for her Showtime program Headliners.
“I have to make decisions for my family, not just personal, individual decisions,” Wade told Nichols. He praised Florida’s low tax rate and made a nod to how he was embraced by residents when he played in the NBA. “But my family would not be accepted or feel comfortable there. And so that’s one of the reasons why I don’t live there.”
In 2020, Wade and his family revealed that Zaya was transgender. In the years since, he’s been a forceful defender of his daughter and her transition. Now we learn that this includes a willingness to uproot his household and move to a state that he didn’t see as so overtly hostile to LGBTQ people.
Read the full article. Gift link here. The piece goes on to note that former DeSantis spox and horrible person Christina Pushaw recently mocked a report about LGBTQ people leaving Florida with a “hand waving goodbye” emoji.
Dwyane Wade explains why he moved out of Florida
“My family would not be accepted or feel comfortable there. And so that’s one of the reasons why I don’t live there.”
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— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) April 26, 2023
BREAKING: Dwayne Wade just called out Ron DeSantis and his fascist, hateful, homophobic policies on national TV. Well done! pic.twitter.com/hMLVGeoHHK
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