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NY high school crowns gay seniors prom king and queen
Gay best friends Charlie Ferrusi and Timmy Howard have been voted prom king and queen at Hudson High in upstate New York, winning the student vote by a landslide. The teens said they ran the idea past advisers and the principal, who gave their approval. They added that one of the hardest parts of the […]
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Parents say 11-year-old daughter denied medical treatment because she has ‘two moms’
The parents of an 11-year-old student in Rancho Rio, NM, are planning a civil rights lawsuit against their daughter’s school for failing to provide her treatment following a playground accident because, they say, she has “two moms.” On February 26, Jenna Bissell says she sat in her fifth-grade class at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary […]
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Illinois House passes LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying law
The Illinois state House on Friday unanimously approved a bill to prevent homophobic and transphobic bullying. The measure covers bullying specifically targeted at students because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, among other categories. It was introduced just eight weeks ago, and previously passed in the state Senate on March 24. The Prevent School […]
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Bleckley County High School prom: A good time was had by all!
Bleckley County High School senior Derrick Martin made history Saturday when he arrived at his high school prom on the arm of another boy. He was the first in his hometown of Cochran — and perhaps in Georgia — to ask permission to take a same sex partner to prom and have his school allow […]
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Nationwide ‘Day of Silence’ calls attention to bullying, harassment of LGBT students
Hundreds of thousands of students from every state and at least 7,400 middle and high schools participated in GLSEN’s 15th annual Day of Silence on Friday to bring attention to anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) name-calling, bullying and harassment. The Day of Silence illustrates the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment on LGBT […]
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‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill revived in Tennessee state legislature
Despite having been stalled in subcommittee before, a Tennessee lawmaker is is once again making a push to advance the so called “Don’t Say Gay” bill. The House bill as written, along with a companion piece in the state Senate, would ban the teaching or furnishing materials on human sexuality other than heterosexuality in public […]
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Exclusive: Gay teens speak about prom plans, being booted from family home
A Georgia teen has been kicked-out of his family’s home after going public on his plans to attend his high school prom with his boyfriend. In the small town of Cochran, GA […]
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Student play depicting gay Jesus planned at Texas university
A class project depicting Jesus Christ as gay has hit a nerve in Stephenville, Texas. Tarleton State University is adding security for expected demonstrations Saturday when students perform the production, called “Corpus Christi.” The play, by Terrence McNally, opened in New York in the 1990s, and student John Jordan Otte chose the script for his […]
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Georgia school OK’s gay student’s request to bring boyfriend to prom
An 18-year-old senior at Bleckley County High School in Georgia has received his school’s permission to attend this year’s prom with his boyfriend. In stark contrast to a Mississippi school’s decision to cancel its prom […]
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Judge rules lesbian teen’s rights violated, but fails to reinstate prom
School officials in Mississippi violated a lesbian student’s constitutional rights by banning her from dressing in a tuxedo and taking her girlfriend to the school prom, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. But the judge stopped short of forcing Itawamba Agricultural High School to reinstate the April 2 prom, which it canceled two weeks ago […]