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Calif. lawmakers approve transgender student rights bill
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers approved a bill Wednesday that would require public K-12 schools to let transgender students choose which restrooms they use and which school teams they join based on their gender identity instead of their chromosomes.
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N.J. state Senate approves bill to ban ‘conversion therapy’ for minors
TRENTON, N.J. — The New Jersey state Senate passed a bill Thursday to ban licensed therapists from trying to convert gay minors into heterosexuals.
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Ruling in Colo. civil rights case favors transgender 6-year-old
DENVER — The Colorado Civil Rights Division has ruled in favor of a transgender 6-year-old child who was barred from using the girls’ bathroom at Eagleside Elementary School in Fountain.
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States fight discrimination toward gay foster kids
Sixto Cancel says his ultra-religious foster family frequently talked about their disdain for his homosexuality at the dinner table, trashed his room and called him homophobic slurs. While he was still a teenager, he says, they kicked him out of their Connecticut home after he had lived there for nearly a decade…
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Mormon parents who supported Prop 8, now fight on behalf of their gay son
A Mormon’s family’s struggle to reconcile its faith with full acceptance of their son’s sexual identity is at the heart of the video “Families Are Forever,” which premieres at Frameline 37: The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival this weekend.
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ACLU sues Ind. motor vehicles bureau over gay youth group license plates
INDIANAPOLIS — The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, seeking the reinstatement of specialty auto license plates for a group that counsels gay and lesbian youth.
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Two more Ky. churches to cut ties with Boy Scouts over gay youth policy
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. — Two more churches in central Kentucky say they are cutting ties with the Boy Scouts of America over the organization’s decision to allow gay youth.
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Tenn. gay youth speaks out against ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill and its supporter
Marcel Neergard, an 11-year-old gay student from Oak Ridge, Tenn., is speaking out against the state’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay” bill, and one of its leading proponents in the Tenn. state House, Oak Ridge Rep. John Ragan.
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Boy Scout councils weigh options as fallout continues over repeal of gay ban
DALLAS — Fallout continues after the Boy Scouts of America voted last week to open its ranks to openly gay youth.
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‘Thank you for standing up for me’
Last week, the Boy Scouts of America took its first step in ending decades of wrongs against its own youth members, myself once included. When I was fourteen years old, I was faced with an impossible, scary and irrational choice: “If you choose to live that lifestyle, you’re choosing not to be a Boy Scout.” My dismissal from Boy Scouts was the very first time I was forced to stare down outright discrimination. It came at an all-too-young age…