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Judge hears arguments in lawsuit over Orono school’s treatment of transgender child

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In Orono, Maine, a family of four (the "Does") and the Maine Human Rights Commission are suing the Orono School District for refusing to let an unidentified trans girl use the girl's restroom. The case, which first went to trial in late 2009, will be heard this week. Read more at The Bangor Daily News. [more...]
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Principal Attempted To Cancel Cosmetology Course Over Inclusion Of Gay Student

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Beauty school drop(ped) out: At Texas' Beaumont Independent School District (BISD), which has offered an adult cosmetology course since 2009, the principal of the school shut down the program when the first openly-gay student, 22-year-old Kwmame Gray, enrolled in the class this year. Principal Thom Campbell-Amons, who has made his homophobia known at school events, also fired the course instructo [more...]
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College Course Lumps Homosexuality, Rape, Murder

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Is the Glee high school nearby: Franciscan University, a small conservative college in Steubenville Ohio, is facing accreditation concerns after a course in its social work program labeled homosexuals "deviants" in the course description title. Students who take the course get the following run down for SWK 314, Deviant Behavior: "The behaviors that are primarily examined are murder, rape, [more...]
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GLSEN National School Climate Survey 2011 Reveals LGBT Students' Experiences In U.S. Schools

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In America's schools, anti-gay bullying is down from previous years, but an alarming 82 percent of LGBT students are verbally harassed about their sexual orientation, and 60 percent report feeling unsafe at school. Read the results of the latest 2011 GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) report at The HuffPo. [more...]
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Gay teen to sue school for failing to protect him from homophobic bully

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Bully fights back: Seventeen-year-old Darnell Young, the teen suspended for holding up a stun gun while under attack by a gang of anti-gay bullies in his high school, has announced a lawsuit against the Indianapolis school for failing to protect him. Young's mother, also a plaintiff, gave her son the stun gun for protection. Read the full story at Pink News. [more...]
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Jeff Landry presses university to drop lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender courses

By Staff on from nola.com

Add/drop gets political: Louisiana State Rep. Jeff Landry, R-New Iberia, is leading a campaign to convince the University of Louisiana at Lafayette to drop its LGBT Studies minor, or face issues with accreditation in the future. But the president of the school, citing academic freedom, denied his request. NOLA.com has the full story. [more...]
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3 Texas schools earn gay-unfriendly ranking

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Everything is bigger in Texas: Of the Princeton Review's 20 most-homophobic colleges in the nation, Texas was home to three: Baylor University, Texas A & M, and the University of Dallas (a private Catholic school). Of the 20, only four were located in New England: Pennsylvania's Grove City College and Indiana University of Pennsylvania; the University of Rhode Island; and Boston College in [more...]
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Gay parents of denied student speak out

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Breaking bad policy: In Albuquerque, New Mexico, two gay dads have been told that their 3-year-old son is not welcome at the Hope Christian School's preschool because they are not a "Biblical family." The men, who have chosen to remain anonymous, said that "our decision to send our son to (Hope Christian School) was not a legal trap nor an attempt to advance a ‘gay agenda.’ The decision, although [more...]
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