Florida Session Ends With All Anti-LGBTQ Bills Failing

May 3, 2025 Civil Rights, LGBT News

Florida Politics reports:

LGBTQ advocates are celebrating several bills — including one that could have banned Pride flags flown at government buildings — stalling out this Session.

“Once again, we’ve done what many thought was impossible: not one anti-LGBTQ bill passed this session,” Equality Florida’s Executive Director Nadine Smith said in a statement Saturday. The Legislative Session ended Friday although lawmakers failed to pass a balanced budget.

Some of the dead bills including HB 75/SB 100 that would have banned government buildings, schools and universities, from flying flags that represented a “political viewpoint.” The proposal was sponsored by outgoing state Sen. Randy Fine before he left for Washington, D.C.

Read the full article. 

See the message from Equality Florida below for details about the other failed bills.

Last month Fine won the special election to fill former Rep. Mike Waltz’s US House seat. He has crowed multiple times that he will “outdo” MTG’s vitriol as a US rep.

In March, Fine appeared here when he called a constituent a “terrorist” for wearing an Arab shoulder scarf to a public hearing.

From earlier reports….

Fine, who calls himself “the Hebrew Hammer,” last appeared here  in February 2025 when he threatened Muslim reps Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, telling them he was coming to Congress to torment them, adding “bombs away.”

Fine, the sponsor of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, appeared here in November 2024 when he was held in contempt for flipping off a judge during a virtual hearing about an election lawsuit.

Before that he appeared here when DeSantis vetoed funding for a “woke zoo” because it wouldn’t host a fundraiser for Fine.

Fine also appeared on JMG in May 2022 when he tweeted what many interpreted as a threat to assassinate President Biden. That tweet remains online.

Before that, Fine appeared on JMG when he called for felony charges after Florida Democrats staged a sit-in over the racist US House map submitted by DeSantis. 

And before that, he appeared here when he threatened to defund a Florida Special Olympics event and called a local school board member a “whore” because she’d been invited to its fundraiser gala and he was not.

Fine was a sponsor of the bill that stripped Disney’s self-governing status. His family owns annual passes to the “woke” theme park giant. In April 2023 he declared, “Damn right, we ought to erase” LGBTQ Americans.

In 2022, he arranged for a Florida town to honor a war criminal who was convicted of executing four Iraqi prisoners.

Fine is also a sponsor of Florida’s bill criminalizing drag shows in view of minors. Of note, his wife runs a self-described “sultry” burlesque show that would violate her husband’s law.



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