The Orange County School Board on Tuesday once again rejected an effort by one of their board members to get rid of an annual proclamation declaring LGBTQ+ Awareness and History Month, after more than a dozen parents, students and school staff urged the board to keep it. Alicia Farrant, a Moms for Liberty activist elected to the school board in 2022, said she felt the proclamation was “redundant” and duplicative, since the school system also recognizes June as Pride month and June 12 as Pulse Remembrance Day to commemorate the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse nightclub. The LGBTQ+ Awareness and History Month proclamation, recognized annually in the Orange County school district since 2019, was one of several dozen cultural observances the board was tasked with approving for the school year Tuesday, as a procedural matter.
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