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“This year, I think there's a real sense of hope for our community as we recover from the chaos of 2022 and 2023,” Fenning said. “I'm excited to talk about that – the firm belief that we can and will take back our state and create a world where queer people finally feel safe.”

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is ordering the state’s bridges solely be illuminated in the colors of the American flag from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

The announcement effectively bans the use of any other color scheme over the course of the summer, such as rainbow colors for Pride Month, which is celebrated in June.

“They had LGBTQ-inclusive books in every single classroom and school library,” Maxx Fenning says of his high school experience. “They were even working on LGBTQ-specific course codes to get approved by the state,” he said, describing courses on queer studies and LGBTQ Black history.

Maxx Fenning, executive director of PRISM, which works with LGBTQ youth in South Florida, says this law could be devastating.

“It's a major component of our outreach, where we reach tens of thousands of teens every month. Bans on social media for youth strip young people of critical resources that t