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Alabama high school reverses decision, will allow student to wear pro-gay shirt
In a follow-up to a story we reported earlier this week, an Alabama high school has reversed its decision and will allow a student to wear a t-shirt that expresses the message, “gay? fine by me.”
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But Who’ll School the Fool Buell?
Every time you share a story like yesterday’s on Buell; every time you write and post such a story yourself; every time you leave a comment on such a post, so that observers can see how alive is the topic; every time you contribute to a pertinent online forum, you—you!—help to bring about real, actual change.
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GLAAD denounces Huffington Post for ‘sex for tuition’ article about gay students
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has called for an apology and retraction after the Huffington Post this week featured, on its home page, an article titled, “Sex For Tuition: Gay Students Using ‘Sugar Daddies’ To Pay Off Loan Debt.”
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Bully for You, Jerry Buell
If you don’t know, Jerry Buell is the central Florida high school teacher who, on July 25, got so outraged while watching a TV report about the legalization of gay marriage in New York that on his personal Facebook page he wrote, “I’m watching the news, eating dinner, when the story about New York okaying same sex unions came on and I almost threw up.”
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Equality California leads broad coalition of advocates to protect LGBT history law
A broad coalition of advocacy groups have launched a coordinated effort to protect and educate the public on California’s Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act, the landmark legislation that requires that the historical contributions of LGBT Americans to be included in history lessons and classroom textbooks.
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School faces possible lawsuit for banning student from wearing ‘Gay? Fine by me’ t-shirt
An Alabama high school faces a possible federal lawsuit for banning a student from wearing a t-shirt that expresses the message, “gay? fine by me.”
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ACLU sues Missouri school district for illegally censoring LGBT websites
The Missouri chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Jefferson City, Mo., against the Camdenton school district, alleging that web filters on school computers are unconstitutionally blocking access to hundreds of LGBT websites.
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Linda Harvey: Gays should be banned from teaching, jobs that involve children
Linda Harvey — founder of Columbus, Ohio-based Mission America, whose real mission is to spread hate and falsehoods about the LGBT community — says gays and lesbians should be banned from teaching, and any other job that involves children, for that matter.
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MN’s largest daily newspaper calls Anoka-Hennepin policy on LGBT issues ‘gutless’
In a sharply worded editorial, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune this week criticized the Anoka-Hennepin School District, calling the state’s largest schools district “gutless” for it’s neutrality policy on LGBT issues.
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Liberty Counsel calls California gay history law ‘bullying of the worst kind’
Shawn Akers, the Public Policy Analyst for the anti-gay organization Liberty Counsel, on Friday said that California’s new LGBT-inclusive history law represents bullying of the worst kind.