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Everyone thought my gay teen novel would flop when it was released 20 years ago. They were wrong.
When it comes to LGBTQ+ acceptance, the world has changed so much since 2003. By publishing “Geography Club,” I do think I played some small role.
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What it was like to be trapped in the closet in the years before Stonewall
For a long time, I barely knew other LGBTQ+ existed.
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A school banned the rainbow flag from being flown. Students & teachers had the best response.
Instead of flying the one Pride flag that got banned, they flew a whole bunch of Pride flags.
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School board member votes to ban GSA saying kids should just go to church instead
LGBTQ students wanted to form a club in his district. “That’s what we have churches in the community for.”
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Students sued their school for the right to form a Gay-Straight Alliance. They just won.
A judge told the Indiana school that it can’t block students from forming an LGBTQ-positive club.
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Man rants about “sodomy alliances” during school board meeting in Chasten Buttigieg’s hometown
A frustrated board member cut him off. “Every. Single. Meeting. of inappropriateness.”
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Utah high school students cackle & cheer as classmate tears down Pride flag in viral video
Commenters on the school’s Facebook page called the video “nasty,” “shameful,” and “sickening.”
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Students are fighting a nonexistent gay club because it will ‘push homosexuality’ on them
Anti-LGBTQ students started a petition to ban a nonexistent Gay-Straight Alliance at their school.
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The school that banned rainbows in response to homophobic harassment says they’re changing
The district is refusing to release a report about its epically bad reaction to racist and homophobic harassment.
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Teacher fired after she complains about students handing out shocking racist & anti-gay fliers
The principal told her over email that she “was not welcome” in the building any longer – even as a guest.
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This Christian student says she got suspended for posting anti-LGBTQ Bible verses at school
She said her fellow students “don’t need to be living in the confusion of wondering if they should be gay, bi, lesbian, trans.”
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This Republican told LGBTQ youth that homosexuality is equal to bestiality & pedophilia
She said that LGBTQ civil rights law is like legally protecting people who have sex with children and dogs.
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He stole a GSA poster from his daughter’s school ‘in a fit of rage’ claiming it broke the law
The school decided not to press charges against him for theft.
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This school wants to out Gay-Straight Alliance members. The students are suing.
They were only allowed to use the word “Pride” if they agreed that it meant “Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Diligence, and Excellence.”
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After queer students were bullied by Trumpers during Homecoming, this town wasn’t having it
The students were left in tears after being pelted with candy as the crowd chanted “Make America straight again” during a homecoming parade.
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Bullies chanted ‘Make America straight again’ at LGBT students in a school parade
The bullies also threw candy and told the LGBT students to kill themselves.
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#FakeNews: Another religious right claim of persecution just got debunked
It’s another big defeat for Kim Davis’s conservative Christian lawyers, Liberty Counsel and another huge win for love.
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Fla. teacher targeted by Kim Davis’s lawyer for promoting LGBTQ ‘propaganda’
In creating a safe space for LGBTQ kids, Lora Jane Riedas is accused of marginalizing straight students and violating their rights.
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Fired reporter suing to get her job back
The man Jacqui Helbert interviewed using a very obvious microphone is a transphobic lawmaker who called being trans “hogwash.”
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GOP pressured NPR into firing a journalist who reported on their bigotry
The reporter denies violating journalistic ethics while covering a Gay-Straight Alliance’s meeting with GOP lawmakers.
