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At some Christian colleges, straight students can date — but gays can’t
As religious universities try to accommodate LGBTQ students, strange double standards are emerging.
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Married, gay students to receive equal treatment in college loan applications
WASHINGTON — Students in same-sex marriages will be treated the same as their straight married classmates when it comes to federal college loan applications, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Friday in a shift that reflects this year’s Supreme Court ruling that broadened gay rights.
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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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VCU students distribute LGBT-themed coffee sleeves to promote equality
RICHMOND, Va. — A group of students at Virginia Commonwealth University created 1,000 coffee sleeves with depictions of local LGBT individuals that it distributed Tuesday at Richmond area coffee shops in an effort to support equality.
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Survey: 75 percent of incoming college freshmen support same-sex marriage
Support for same-sex marriage rose to 75 percent among incoming freshmen at four-year colleges, according to a massive survey conducted by UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute.
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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 […]