Sunday, July 25, 2010
A Georgia graduate student has filed a lawsuit accusing Augusta State University officials of violating her constitutional rights -- she claims the school told her that her anti-gay beliefs are incompatible with the standards of her desired profession.
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
[tweetmeme] Gay best friends Charlie Ferrusi and Timmy Howard have been voted prom king and queen at Hudson High in upstate New York, winning the student vote by a landslide. [caption id="attachment_8149" align="aligncenter" width="440" caption="Ferrusi [...]
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Sunday, May 9, 2010
The parents of an 11-year-old student in Rancho Rio, NM, are planning a civil rights lawsuit against their daughter's school for failing to provide her treatment following a playground accident because, they say, she has [...]
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Monday, April 26, 2010
The Illinois state House on Friday unanimously approved a bill to prevent homophobic and transphobic bullying. The measure covers bullying specifically targeted at students because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, among other categories. [...]
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Monday, April 19, 2010
Bleckley County High School senior Derrick Martin made history Saturday when he arrived at his high school prom on the arm of another boy. He was the first in his hometown of Cochran — and [...]
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Hundreds of thousands of students from every state and at least 7,400 middle and high schools participated in GLSEN's 15th annual Day of Silence on Friday to bring attention to anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and [...]
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Despite having been stalled in subcommittee before, a Tennessee lawmaker is is once again making a push to advance the so called "Don’t Say Gay” bill. The House bill as written, along with a companion [...]
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
A Georgia teen has been kicked-out of his family’s home after going public on his plans to attend his high school prom with his boyfriend. In the small town of Cochran, GA [...]
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
A class project depicting Jesus Christ as gay has hit a nerve in Stephenville, Texas. Tarleton State University is adding security for expected demonstrations Saturday when students perform the production, called "Corpus Christi." The play, [...]
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
An 18-year-old senior at Bleckley County High School in Georgia has received his school's permission to attend this year's prom with his boyfriend. In stark contrast to a Mississippi school's decision to cancel its prom [...]
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
School officials in Mississippi violated a lesbian student’s constitutional rights by banning her from dressing in a tuxedo and taking her girlfriend to the school prom, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. [caption id="attachment_7202" align="alignleft" [...]
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
A lesbian couple is speaking out after a Catholic school in Colorado banned their two children from re-enrolling because they are gay parents. Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput said the decision by the Sacred Heart of [...]
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit Thursday against Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Miss., after the school district decided to cancel this year’s prom rather than let a lesbian student attend the dance [...]
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
A Mississippi high school has called off the annual senior prom after a lesbian student demanded she be allowed to bring her girlfriend. The Itawamba County school board announced [...]
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
The San Francisco school board voted Tuesday night to fund a substantial increase in instruction and services related to gay and lesbian issues. The school district, facing layoffs and massive program cuts, unanimously agreed that [...]
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