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Indiana teacher suspended over anti-gay remarks

By Staff on from politico.com

Your purpose is to sit at home without pay: The Farmersburg, Indiana special ed teacher who said -- on camera -- that gays do not serve a purpose has been suspended for what officials say is “for the safety and security of everyone in our buildings.” Diana Medley's now-viral comments caused quite a stir at North Central Junior-Senior High School, where her group's no-LGBT "traditional prom" reque [more...]
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Massachusetts Education Department Accommodates Transgender Students

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Massachusetts, always ahead of the game: In compliance with the 2011 Transgender Equality Bill, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education announced this week that transgender students must be given access to bathrooms and sport teams that coincide with their gender identification: "Some students may feel uncomfortable sharing those facilities, but this discomfort is not a [more...]
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More than 100 pack Lake meeting about 'gay-straight' middle school club

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Dozens were expected, but hundreds came: In Leesburg, Florida, over 100 students, parents, and religious leaders showed up at a Lake County School Board meeting in a local gymnasium. On the agenda: canceling all non-academic school clubs, including a proposed Gay Straight Alliance that was the brainchild of 14-year-old openly-bisexual student Bayli Silberstein: "I expected more from adults. I did [more...]
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Gay club a hot topic for Lake County School Board

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Don't Say Gay Straight Alliance: With the help of the ACLU, a 14-year-old middle school student in Leesburg, Florida is trying to start the school's first-ever Gay Straight Alliance club, which she believes will help curb gay bullying. Bayli Silberstein has already contacted the ACLU, which has promised to intervene if the Lake County School Board votes this week to shut down all non-academic clu [more...]
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Christian conservative Pepperdine University to offer LGBT scholarship

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Leading by example: Despite turning down a student Gay-Straight Alliance just one year ago, a conservative university associated with the Church of Christ has offered up its first ever LGBT scholarship. Pepperdine University, in Malibu, California, told the press this week that the Frank James 'Buddy' Vinci and George B. Ellsworth Scholarship would be awarded to an LGBT student who excelled in pu [more...]
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Gay teen wins right to attend prom with boyfriend

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Dawson's peak: After reading in the student handbook that "students will be permitted to invite one guest" to prom and that "girls [must] invite boys and boys invite girls," Missouri high school student Stacy Dawson went straight to school officials, who refused to change the policy. But when Dawson threatened legal action via the Southern Poverty Law Center, which intervened, the school changed [more...]
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Missouri school prohibits gay student from bringing boyfriend to prom

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More proms, more problems: The Southern Poverty Law Center is investigating Missouri's Scott County Central School District after a gay student was told he could not attend senior prom because the school prohibited same-sex couples. The principal of the 330-student school, which encompasses both a high school and elementary school, has not responded. For more, click the link below. [more...]
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'Gay-free' prom idea backfires on supporters in Indiana town

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What did she think would happen?: Across the nation, special education specialists, teachers, and LGBT rights advocates -- including columnist and It Gets Better creator Dan Savage -- are calling for the resignation of Sullivan High School special ed teacher Diana Medley. In an effort to bring about a "traditional" (no gay kids) prom, Medley compared homosexual kids to special needs children, and [more...]
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