We see new efforts of #dontsaygay by the current administration for Florida it makes some think of the past and Floridas history on this topic. The Purple Pamphlet the wiki page is rightfully title Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida. Part of the LGBT portal on Wiki. Above is my marble card nft from the Twitter collection.
"Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida, also known as the Purple Pamphlet, was an anti-homosexual Propaganda pamphlet published in January 1964 by the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee of the Florida legislature led by Senator Charley Johns."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_Citizenship_in_Florida
This effort at the time was to get out of public schools, universities, and state government agencies anyone they believed to be LGBTQ.
There is an old saying “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Winston Churchill wrote.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” Spanish philosopher George Santayana
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