“There are going to be so many kids with curly hair who need a community like Pine View and they won’t have one,” Moricz said in his speech. “I am the first openly-gay Class President in my school’s history - this censorship seems to show that they want me to be the last.”ĭuring Pine View’s graduation ceremony, Moricz shared how the law could impact kids like him with “curly hair.” “A few days ago, my principal called me into his office and informed me that if my graduation speech referenced my activism or role as a plaintiff in the lawsuit, school administration had a signal to cut off my microphone, end my speech, and halt the ceremony,” Moricz previously wrote on Twitter. Moricz, the senior class president at Pine View School in Sarasota County, repeatedly referred his distinctive locks after earlier saying he’d been told his speech would be censored if he spoke openly about the Parental Rights in Education law. This characteristic has probably become the first thing you think of when you think of me as a human being,” Zander Moricz said Sunday. “I must discuss a very public part of my identity.
( The Hill) – An openly gay Florida high schooler who is among those suing over the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law used his graduation speech to speak about his experience - while using a winking code to avoid referring to his orientation directly.
