Censorship of LGBT Issues: State-enforced from 1975 to Jul 1, 2022.
AL HB385 (2021), signed by Governor Kay Ivey in April of 2021, amended Section 16-40A-2, Code of Alabama 1975 to strike an emphasis in the state's public sex education that "in a factual manner and from a public health perspective, homosexuality is not a lifestyle acceptable to the general public and that homosexual conduct is a criminal offense under the laws of the state."
In 2003 the US Supreme Court under LAWRENCE V. TEXAS made unconstitutional state anti-sodomy laws. Regardless, teachers in Alabama still had to emphasize that homosexuality was illegal.
Censorship of LGBT Issues: State-enforced from Jul 1, 2022 to now.
AL HB322 mandates that:
An individual or group of individuals providing classroom instruction to students in kindergarten through the fifth grade at a public K-12 school shall not engage in classroom discussion or provide classroom instruction regarding sexual orientation or gender identity in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.
The State Board of Education shall adopt rules for the implementation and enforcement of this section.
It was signed by Gov. Kay Ivey on April 7th 2022 and will go into effect on the first day of the third month following said signature.