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News (USA)
Teacher fired after calling out Mike Pence’s “little demon mouth.” Now she’s suing.
A GOP lawmaker texted her boss after she tweeted about Pence. Her boss said he would “deal with it.”
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Bias Watch
Milo Yiannopoulos to give “pray the gay away” speech at Penn State University
Milo was invited by a student group that wants to “discuss” conversion therapy on campus. Administrators say they can’t stop him.
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Oregon school board bans Pride flags & Black Lives Matter signs
The board members in the overwhelmingly white community say the signs are “divisive” and could make some students feel less valued.
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Politics
Iowa Republicans want to protect anti-LGBTQ slurs & ban anti-bias training to promote “diversity”
The proposal seeks to carbon copy a Trump-era executive order that similarly sought to ban any form of anti-bias training or implementation of “critical race theory” before a court blocked it.
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News (USA)
Man barged into class to give out anti-gay pamphlets. University says it’s OK because he’s married.
The man entered an LGBTQ Studies class to give out conversion therapy pamphlets. But the administration said that he’s not a threat because he’s married and bought a house.
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News (USA)
Students waved a rainbow flag as they walked out en masse to protest Jeff Sessions’ speech
Jeff Sessions said the protest showed campus free speech was under attack. In 1996, though, he fought to ban an LGBTQ conference at a college.