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Internet gay bashing not protected by free speech, court rules
Students at a private school in Los Angeles who posted internet death threats and anti-gay messages on a classmate’s webpage, can’t claim the constitutional protection of free speech, a California appeals court has ruled. The parents of the boy targeted by the threatening and derogatory posts on his website, withdrew him from Harvard-Westlake School in […]
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eHarmony settles suit, will make website more welcoming to gays
eHarmony.com agreed Tuesday to pay $500,000 and make its website more gay friendly to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by gays in California nearly three years ago.
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Tennessee Schools Agree to Stop Blocking LGBT Web Sites
From NPR. The American Civil Liberties Union announced today that they have settled out of court with two Tennessee school districts sued on behalf of local students for blocking classroom access to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Web sites. The lawsuit alleged that Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools and Knox County Schools violated the rights of […]
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Gay-friendly online high school believed to be first of its kind
A new online high school targeting LGBT students, believed to be the first of its kind, plans to launch in January 2010.
