ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The largest LGBTQ+ rights group within the U.S. joined other civil rights organizations Tuesday in issuing a journey advisory for Florida, warning that newly handed legal guidelines and insurance policies might pose dangers to minorities, immigrants and homosexual vacationers.

The Human Rights Campaign joined the NAACP, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the Florida Immigrant Coalition and Equality Florida in issuing journey or relocation warnings for the Sunshine State, probably the most common states for vacationers to go to within the U.S.

While the LGBTQ+ advocacy group mentioned it wasn’t calling for a boycott or making a blanket suggestion towards visiting Florida, it mentioned it needed to spotlight new laws handed by the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature that they mentioned are hostile to the LGBTQ+ community, restrict abortion access and permit Floridians to carry concealed weapons without a permit.

“Those who go to should be part of us of their vocal opposition to those harmful insurance policies,” Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement. “Those who pick another place to work, to go to school or to spend their vacation should make clear why they’re not heading to Florida.”

Last weekend, the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, issued its advisory warning that recent laws and policies championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers are “openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals.”

More than 137.5 million vacationers visited Florida final 12 months, surpassing pre-pandemic ranges, in accordance with Visit Florida, the state’s tourism promotion company. Tourism helps 1.6 million full-time and part-time jobs, and guests spent $98.8 billion in Florida in 2019, in accordance with final 12 months’s figures.

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