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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A measure that would have forced schools to tell parents if their children have talked to a teacher or counselor about being gay has failed this session. [ Read more → ]

NASHVILLE, Tenn -- Another new version of Tennessee's Classroom Protection Act, more commonly known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, would require teachers to send gay students to see a psychiatrist. [ Read more → ]

A Tennessee lawmaker on Tuesday resurrected the controversial "Don't Say Gay" bill which would prohibit teachers from discussing sexuality with their students, but with a new provision that would require school officials to "out" LGBT students to their parents. [ Read more → ]

NASHVILLE -- Tennessee’s controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill, will not be put to a final vote needed for passage in the Tennessee state House, according to the bill's sponsor. [ Read more → ]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee's controversial "Don't Say Gay" bill -- a measure that would limit all sexually related instruction to “natural human reproduction science” in kindergarten through eighth grade -- was again delayed on Tuesday by its sponsor. [ Read more → ]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The controversial "Don't Say Gay" bill, scheduled to be heard by the Tennessee state House Education Committee today, has been delayed for up to three weeks while the bill's sponsor works on its language. [ Read more → ]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee State Sen. Stacey Campfield -- the Knoxville lawmaker who is behind the controversial "Don't Say Gay" bill making its way in the Tennessee state legislature -- was ejected from Knoxville bistro on Sunday because of his anti-gay views. [ Read more → ]

A Tennessee state lawmaker on Thursday claimed that HIV originated in the gay community by an airline pilot who had sex with monkey, and that it was "virtually impossible" to contract the disease through heterosexual sex. [ Read more → ]

Tennessee State Representative Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) is defending his "Don't Say Gay" bill from recent criticism by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam. [ Read more → ]

Tennessee lawmaker Stacey Campfield has spent the better part of the last seven years in the Tennessee legislature fighting for the "Don't Say Gay" bill, a law aimed at prohibiting teachers from discussing homosexuality in kindergarten through 8th grade classrooms. [ Read more → ]

The Tennessee state Senate adjourned Wednesday without voting on the "Don't Say Gay" bill, and now the bill's author, Sen. Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) has put off Thursday's planned vote and rescheduled it for next week. [ Read more → ]

Tennessee State Rep. Bill Dunn said it’s too late in the year for the controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill to be approved in the state House, and that he will not pursue passage this year [ Read more → ]

Tennessee lawmaker Sen. Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville), sponsor of the “don’t say gay” bill that would prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality in kindergarten through 8th grade classrooms, said Thursday that homosexuality is a learned behavior. [ Read more → ]

A Tennessee Senate committee on Wednesday approved a bill that will prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality in kindergarten through 8th grade classrooms. [ Read more → ]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Two Republican lawmakers have introduced bills in the Tennessee state legislature that would prohibit use of the words "gay" and "homosexual" in elementary schools, and ban discussion of all LGBT topics whatsoever. [ Read more → ]