Florida Republicans Seek To Oust Gay School Board Member After He Becomes Leader Of Local Pride Group

August 12, 2025 Christianists, Republicans

Florida Politics reports:

Sarasota County School Board member Tom Edwards just joined a nonprofit promoting diversity programs. Now, local Republicans say he should resign his public office. Project Pride SRQ last week announced that Edwards, a second-term School Board member, had taken over as Executive Director of the Sarasota organization.

Edwards, who is openly gay, has faced criticism since his election to the School Board in 2020, when he defeated incumbent School Board member Eric Robinson. Gov. Ron DeSantis listed the School Board member as a top target in the last election cycle, but Edwards won re-election regardless.

Edwards walked out of a School Board meeting in 2023 after members of the public hurled homophobic slurs at him. A few months later, he was among those members calling for fellow School Board member Bridget Ziegler to resign amid her own sex scandal; she remains on the board.

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Bridget Zielger, you will recall, is the anti-LGBTQ Moms For Liberty leader who was busted for having threeways with her husband, Christian Ziegler, who was ousted as chairman of the Florida Republican Party amid sexual assault allegations related to a female threeway partner. The 2023 video below is by Moms For Liberty.



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