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S.C. lawmakers’ protection of students is just another anti-LGBT attack in disguise
By now, you likely have already heard about the controversy regarding the South Carolina lawmakers punishing colleges for assigning two gay-themed books to students. The new state budget deducts $70,000 collectively from the College of Charleston and the University of South Carolina-Upstate. The amount adds up to the how much the two colleges spent on the two books. Rep. Garry Smith is leading the charge because he claims the books, “Fun Home” and “Out Loud: Rainbow Radio,” do not represent South Carolina community values…
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Calif. schools prepare for transgender students rights law to take effect
SAN FRANCISCO — With a law that spells out the rights of transgender students in grades K-12 set to take effect in California, school districts are reviewing locker room layouts, scheduling sensitivity training for coaches, assessing who will sleep where during overnight field trips and reconsidering senior portrait dress codes.
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Canadian law school approved despite plan enforce ban on ‘gay intimacy’
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The B.C. government has approved the creation of a new law school at Trinity Western University in Langley B.C., despite concerns from gay rights advocates over its plans to enforce a policy prohibiting “gay intimacy” among staff and students.
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Purdue University Senate votes to oppose gay marriage ban
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Purdue University Senate has approved a resolution opposing Indiana’s proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
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N.C. gay rights group questions safe school task force appointment
RALEIGH, N.C. — LGBT advocates in North Carolina on Thursday questioned the appointment of a Winston-Salem, N.C. school board member they say is anti-gay to the state’s Task Force on Safer Schools.
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Ball State Senate urged to oppose state constitutional ban on gay marriage
MUNCIE, Ind. — Ball State University faculty members are urging the school’s Senate to recommend that the university join a bipartisan coalition fighting to prevent Indiana’s gay marriage ban from being amended into the state constitution.
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Colo. man says college’s use of the word ‘queer’ is offensive, should be illegal
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A gay man says Colorado College’s listing of “queer” as an option for the gender of job applicants is insulting and should be illegal.
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Same-sex marriage debate draws in higher education leaders
INDIANAPOLIS — In the Indiana higher education community, a world meant to promote free thinking and debate, a seemingly lower-level question of how university officials weigh in on hot-button issues is being pondered. Indiana University President Michael McRobbie took the unusual step last week of throwing IU’s official support behind an effort to keep the […]
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Colo. campaign targets athletes, student leaders to promote inclusive culture
Michelle Murphy likes to imagine a world in which Colorado’s high school cheerleaders and quarterbacks are the cure to bullying and hazing — not the cause…
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R.I. Catholic college cancels philosophy professor’s talk on same-sex marriage
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Providence College, a Roman Catholic school, canceled a talk on gay marriage by a philosophy professor who has spoken and written extensively in favor of it, prompting concerns about academic freedom from some students and faculty members.