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Seventy groups call on Obama to endorse anti-bullying legislation
A group of 70 organizations is asking President Obama to build on his work against bullying in schools by endorsing legislation pending in Congress that would prohibit harassment of LGBT students.
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Court orders Missouri school district to stop censoring LGBT websites
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A federal district court has ruled that a Missouri school district must stop using filtering software to censor web content geared toward the LGBT community. The ruling orders the Camdenton R-III School District to discontinue filtering content that includes LGBT-supportive information, including hundreds of websites that are not sexually explicit in any way.
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HUD: Religious groups must abide by LGBT non-bias housing rule
WASHINGTON — A Department of Housing and Urban Development official said Monday religious institutions receiving federal funds for housing programs will have to abide by a new HUD rule prohibiting discrimination against LGBT people.
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Ohio teen sentenced to 90 days for video recorded attack on gay classmate
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — A judge has sentenced 15-year-old Levi Sever to a 90-day sentence in a juvenile detention center for the October assault on an openly gay classmate that was recorded on video and then posted to Facebook.
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ACLU to represent gay teen whose attack was captured on video, posted to Facebook
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio on Monday announced it would represent the family of a Chillicothe, Ohio gay teen who was assaulted last month because of his sexual orientation. The brutal attack captured national attention when a video of the assault was later posted to Facebook.
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Coalition launches statewide effort to legalize gay marriage in Washington
BELLEVUE, Wash. — A broad, statewide coalition of organizations, congregations, unions and business associations came together on Monday to announce the formation of Washington United for Marriage – a coalition that will work to obtain civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples in Washington state in 2012.
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ACLU warns Utah schools: Banning same-sex couples at school functions ‘unconstitutional’
The ACLU of Utah has sent a warning to the state’s school district superintendents, cautioning them that banning same sex couples from being attending proms, dances and other school functions violates their constitutional rights.
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Maryland high school reverses ban, will allow play to include gay scene
BEL AIR, Md. — Students in a suburban Baltimore high school’s drama club are rejoicing after school administrators reversed a decision that would have prevented them from staging a play that included a scene in which two young men come to realize they are attracted to each other.
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TN school will allow students to wear t-shirts promoting gay-straight alliance
MADISONVILLE, Tenn. – The Monroe County Board of Education has agreed to allow students to wear T-shirts in support of the formation of a gay-straight alliance (GSA) at the school, according to a statement released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Petition urging investigation of school principal’s assault reaches 83,000
More than 83,000 people have signed an online petition at Change.org, demanding that authorities launch an investigation into allegations that a Monroe County Tennessee high school principal assaulted a student for wearing a homemade t-shirt in support of another student’s efforts to form a Gay-Straight alliance in the school.