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University of Southern Indiana faculty votes to oppose Ind. gay marriage ban
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The University of Southern Indiana’s Faculty Senate has voted to oppose Indiana’s proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
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Colo. school board member stands by her transphobic remarks
DENVER — A Colorado school board member who said she has no regrets about saying transgender students should use their own locker rooms vowed to keep pushing for schools to ignore court rulings on the transgender issue.
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Fraternity gets probation after student says he was rejected because he is gay
BALTIMORE — A fraternity at Morgan State University in Baltimore has been placed on probation until 2015 following an investigation that a student was rejected because he is gay.
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Effort to repeal Calif. transgender student rights law may not qualify for ballot
SAN FRANCISCO — Opponents of a new California transgender students rights law, who claimed earlier this month they had collected enough signatures to force a ballot initiative aimed at repealing the law, may not qualify to put the issue before voters after all.
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‘Preferred’ pronouns gain traction at U.S. colleges
OAKLAND, Calif. — The weekly meetings of Mouthing Off!, a group for students at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, always start the same way. Members take turns going around the room saying their names and the personal pronouns they want others to use when referring to them – she, he or something else.
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Purdue University Senate votes to oppose gay marriage ban
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Purdue University Senate has approved a resolution opposing Indiana’s proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
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School district relents, will allow transgender student’s tuxedo photo
HOUSTON — A South Texas school district has reversed course and will allow a photo of a transgender student in a tuxedo to appear in the teen’s high school yearbook.
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Officials: Brawl between bullies, transgender student possible hate crime
HERCULES, Calif. — A transgender student at a California high school said she was assaulted by three other girls in a transphobic attack captured on cell phone video.
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N.C. gay rights group questions safe school task force appointment
RALEIGH, N.C. — LGBT advocates in North Carolina on Thursday questioned the appointment of a Winston-Salem, N.C. school board member they say is anti-gay to the state’s Task Force on Safer Schools.
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Texas school denies transgender teen’s right to wear tuxedo in yearbook photo
LA FERIA, Texas — As a senior at La Feria High School, Jeydon Loredo looked forward to his senior portrait appearing in his school’s yearbook.