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Effort to undo California gay history law fails

By Staff on from sacbee.com

Making history...again: Opponents of California's Senate Bill 48, which requires all schools to add LGBT minorities to history curriculum, have failed in their petition measure to repeal the legislation with a 2014 ballot initiative. The group's Stop SB48 (a.k.a. the "FAIR Act") campaign garnered 446,000 signatures out of the required 504,760. The law, which was passed in January, has yet to go i [more...]
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UL-Lafayette gay studies minor under fire from Christrian group, congressman

By Staff on from nola.com

Talking out of school: After University of Louisiana-Lafayette introduced an LGBT minor this Spring, a program offered by over 200 other universities across the U.S., Louisiana Family Forum President Gene Mills and Louisiana U.S. Rep. Jeff Landry criticized the minor for being non-academic. But majoring in Bible studies is? [more...]
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Lesbian Demands Use of Museum

By Staff on from wtok.com

In conservative Jackson, Mississippi, lesbian Ceara Sturgis has asked the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum to allow her and her partner to get married at the state-owned facilities, a request that was denied to another same-sex couple earlier this year. Sturgis made headlines in 2010 when her yearbook picture was removed because she donned a tux. Now, she has the help of the Southern P [more...]
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Student challenges homosexuality education in Singapore on live TV (VIDEO)

By Staff on from gaystarnews.com

Teen totally schools Singapore's Ministry of Education on live TV: Eighteen-year-old Melissa Tsang, a panelist on Singapore's Channel NewsAsia, asked what would happen if a gay student asked a teacher about being gay or transgender, which is currently forbidden. After being told by the Ministry of Education that the student would be sent to a school counselor, Tsang has this to say: "What kind of [more...]
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Ontario Catholic school trustees urged to defy gay-straight alliance law

By Staff on from life.nationalpost.com

We have One Million Moms, they have PAFE (Parents as First Educators): After Ontario passed a law this May that required all schools to offer Gay Straight Alliances, a Catholic lobby group has demanded that Catholic school board members practice civil disobedience: “Trustees have the legal right to avoid anything that would undermine the school’s religious character...A reasonable court would fin [more...]
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Two out of every five victims of school homophobic bullying contemplate suicide, says survey

By Staff on from independent.co.uk

Distressing news out of the U.K.: A new survey of 1,600 gay, lesbian and bisexual students (aged 11 to 19) reports that two in five have thought about or attempted suicide. Even more distressing, the study found that only 50 percent of students believe that gay bullying is wrong. At religious schools, this number dropped to 37 percent. [more...]
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Transgender student named prom queen

By Gretchen_J on from cnews.canoe.ca

Eighteen-year-old Connor Ferguson, a male-to-female transgender high school student, was shocked when her name was announced as prom queen of Trenton High School in Ontario, Canada. Ferguson, who had been living as transgender for four years, said that she was lucky to live in such a welcoming environment: “It took some time for quite a few people, but the school and staff definitely helped with [more...]
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Transgender teen seeks help with school (VIDEO)

By Gretchen_J on from gaystarnews.com

Asher Doyle just wants to go to a high school where he will be accepted for who he is. The 14-year-old, who has known he was transgender since the age of 2, has started a video donation campaign to raise enough money to attend the trans-friendly Arthur Morgan School in North Carolina. So far he is over halfway there, but still needs help. [more...]
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