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Oklahoma is advancing a bill that would criminalize school librarians over LGBTQ books
The bill will charge schools $10,000 a day for having LGBTQ books and blacklist school librarians who allow such books to stay on the shelves.
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GOP bill would ban teachers from talking about LGBTQ people because it “offends Christian values”
Critics say the bill would lead to more bullying. Proponents say that their religious values are more important.
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Conservatives want to disband the Nebraska Board of Education to stop LGBTQ education
The Republican governor supports a petition to politicize the Nebraska Department of Education by making it report to the governor so he can better stop LGBTQ-inclusive health education.
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Schools will need a parent’s permission to mention LGBTQ people in history class in Arizona
Republican legislators passed it. But will the Republican governor sign the revamped version of the state’s old “No Promo Homo” law?
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A small town voted unanimously to repeal an old anti-LGBTQ law. Then they found another one.
While the Township Council voted unanimously to repeal the forgotten law, they discovered another one they cannot strike down.
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Arizona repeals law that forbade teachers from talking about about LGBTQ issues with students
The law had prohibited instruction in HIV/AIDS curriculum that “[p]romotes a homosexual life-style” or “[s]uggests that some methods of sex are safe methods of homosexual sex.”
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Gay Arizona man says he was attacked by a homophobic 10-person mob
A gay Phoenix, Arizona resident named Cesar Marin says he was the victim of a gay bashing this weekend. Police are reportedly investigating. Marin says they have arrested one suspect In a public Facebook post (which has since been shared over 1,600 times), Marin wrote: “I was attacked by a mob of 10 people [early Saturday […]
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Gay groups are negotiating with Utah to end the state’s ‘no promo homo’ law
NCLR and Equality Utah sued the state education board last fall, saying the law creates a “chilling culture of silence that stigmatizes LGBTQ students.”
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Jeff Sessions tried to block an LGBTQ campus conference as Alabama AG
Sen. Jeff Sessions claimed that allowing the University of Alabama to host an LGBTQ conference would cause “irreparable harm.”
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Equality Utah sues education department over anti-LGBT curriculum law
Utah is one of eight states with so-called “no promo homo” laws, but the first to see a court challenge to its anti-LGBT curriculum law.