“There are going to be so many kids with curly hair who need a community like Pine View and they will not have one,” he underlined in his speech. They said they would send school security if I did not listen. When administration discovered that I was organizing a Say Gay walkout, they had all our posters ripped from the walls and told me to shut down the protest. Earlier in May, Moricz, the youngest public plaintiff in the lawsuit over Florida’s controversial law, had tweeted that his school’s principal had warned him that his microphone would be cut off at graduation if he referenced his activism in his speech.Ī 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.
