CEO 2023 is the FGC at its inclusive best, even as it faces down looming anti-LGBTQ+ laws

On March 6, 2023, house bill 1521 was filed by Florida-based government officials. It would strictly determine what bathrooms people could use based on their assigned gender at birth – an attempt to prohibit the freedoms of non-binary people within the state. This bill, part of a wider political assault on the transgender population currently taking place in the USA, is set to go into effect today, July 1. Just one week prior to this date was CEO 2023. A community born-and-bred fighting game event held in Daytona Beach, it has been the largest event in the state for over a decade. CEO, or Community Effort Orlando, was created as a hub not just for Florida natives slinging sticks and plinking buttons, but national and international fighters that wanted to get together and share a love for the genre. But, 13 years after the dream started to come true for Florida's scrappy FGC underbelly, 2023's CEO may have been the last hurrah for a community looking down the barrel of growing social and legal prejudice all around them. Read more
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