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Most Neb. schools to offer insurance benefits to married same-sex couples
OMAHA, Neb. — Nearly all Nebraska school districts and some cities and counties will soon begin offering insurance benefits to legally married same-sex couples.
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University of Minnesota to offer gender-neutral student housing
MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota is preparing to offer gender-neutral housing at its Twin Cities campus.
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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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Catholic students rally to protest ‘forced’ departure of gay vice-principal
SEATTLE — Students at a Seattle-area Catholic school are gaining national attention for their protest over the forced departure of a gay vice principal.
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Group trying to overturn Calif. transgender students’ rights law files suit
Groups trying to overturn a new California law allowing transgender students to choose public school restrooms and sports teams that correspond with their expressed genders have filed a lawsuit claiming state officials are unfairly refusing to count signatures seeking a referendum.
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ACLU files second lawsuit after Fla. school again blocks gay-straight alliance
OCALA, Fla. — The ACLU on Thursday sued a central Florida school district for the second time this year, claiming it is once again refusing to approve a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) club at a middle school.
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Students walk out in protest of ‘forced’ resignation of gay Catholic school official
SAMMAMISH, Wash. — Hundreds of students at Eastside Catholic School in Sammamish, Wash., walked out Thursday to protest the resignation of a vice principal they say was forced out because he recently married his same-sex partner.
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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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Lawsuit: LGBT students routinely bullied in Miss. school district
JACKSON, Miss. — A lawsuit filed Tuesday says LGBT students are routinely bullied in a south Mississippi school district, including a lesbian who was forced to sit alone in the middle of a classroom when others were split into groups of boys and girls.
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Indiana State University groups affirm opposition to gay marriage ban
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Indiana State University’s faculty, staff and student groups have joined Indiana’s growing collegiate opposition to the state’s proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.