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Teacher’s ‘No on 74’ button spurs protest by gay parent

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Class warfare: After her daughter reported that her eighth grade teacher was wearing a “No on 74” button, a lesbian mom in Port Angeles, Washington is petitioning the school district to prohibit teachers from wearing political clothing or accessories: “My daughter lives with myself and my lesbian partner. My daughter loves me very much and we have a good family relationship. But [until this incid [more...]
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Texas School District Cancels Play About Gay Penguins

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What would Leslie Knope say?: A school district in Austin, Texas has canceled 10 performances of the play And Then Came Tango, which was scheduled to be performed for area 2nd-grade school children. Like the children's book And Tango Makes Three, the play centers around real-life Central Park Zoo penguins Roy and Silo, who together raise a penguin offspring, Tango. According to the [more...]
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East Aurora Developing New Transgender Student Policies: Why We Must Stand With Them

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All eyes on East Aurora: After caving in to the Illinois Family Institute's demand to reverse its trans student protection ordinance, the East Aurora School District has come back swinging. A new 21-member Ad Hoc committee has been established that will re-draft the landmark policy, and put this issue to rest for once and for all: "We want to take enough time to make sure we get in the right poli [more...]
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France to Introduce Lessons on Gay Issues in Primary School

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It's about time: For the first time in history, France is getting ahead of homophobia by teaching elementary students lessons on gay sensitivity. The measure was put in place to curb bullying, which is a significant problem for the nation's estimated 300,000 LGBT children. Next week, the French government will also vote on a proposal to legalize gay marriage and adoption, despite widespread relig [more...]
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Ohio high school students disciplined for pro-LGBT shirts

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"Disruptive" threads: Twenty students at Ohio's Celina High School are facing punishment for wearing pro-LGBT T-shirts. The group wore the shirts, which the school called "disruptive," in defense of two female students who wore "lesbian 1" and "lesbian 2" shirts and were told to remove them or face suspension. But other students at the school have worn pro-life T-shirts without recourse: “It soun [more...]
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Gay rights advocates criticize addition to anti-bullying panel

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Enemy in the midst: Under the terms of its anti-LGBT bullying lawsuit, Minnesota's Anoka-Hennepin School District was ordered to create a task force that would create guidelines for curbing the district's high student bullying and suicide epidemic. But surprisingly, Bryan Lindquist of the Parents Action League, a Southern Poverty Law Center-deemed hate group, is an appointed member of the task fo [more...]
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East Aurora School Board Repeals Transgender Protections For Students

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School board couldn't stand the heat (i.e. homophobia): Less than a week after passing a anti-trans bullying ordinance, Illinois' East Aurora School Board rescinded the policy, citing vague issues that required guidance from the state. The ordinance was immediately criticized by the anti-gay Illinois Family Association, which asked local citizens to write and complain about the new policy's "elas [more...]
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Illinois Family Institute, Anti-Gay Hate Group, Condemns School For Transgender-Inclusive Policies

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"Apparently, all that’s needed for school personnel to be compelled to participate in a fiction is for a student to pretend 'consistently' at school that he or she is the opposite sex." This statement, coming from the Christian hate group Illinois Family Institute (IFI), is in regards to the East Aurora School Board's decision to recognize and accommodate trans students. IFI went on to suggest th [more...]
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