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Tenn. city to offer benefits to same-sex domestic partners of city workers
COLLEGEDALE, Tenn. — Collegedale has become the first Tennessee city to offer benefits to same-sex domestic partners of city workers.
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Christian legal group says gay rights assignment was religious intolerance
CLIFTON, Tenn. — Officials at Columbia State Community College say they’re investigating claims by a Christian legal group that a psychology professor’s assignment about gay rights is teaching her students religious intolerance.
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StudentsFirst rescinds anti-gay lawmaker’s award in response to gay youth’s plea
Following weeks of mounting pressure from LGBT advocacy groups, it was an online campaign initiated by an 11-year-old gay student that finally compelled the education lobbying group StudentsFirst to rescind it’s “Education Reformer of the Year” designation awarded to Tenn. state Rep. John Ragan, a proponent of the state’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
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Tenn. gay youth speaks out against ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill and its supporter
Marcel Neergard, an 11-year-old gay student from Oak Ridge, Tenn., is speaking out against the state’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay” bill, and one of its leading proponents in the Tenn. state House, Oak Ridge Rep. John Ragan.
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Two Tenn. Scout groups say they’re against proposal to allow gay scouts
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Two Boy Scouts councils in Tennessee said Tuesday they will not support a proposal to partially lift the group’s long-standing exclusion of gays.
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Tennessee’s latest ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill dies in House committee
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A measure that would have forced schools to tell parents if their children have talked to a teacher or counselor about being gay has failed this session.
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Tennessee state House OK’s bill allowing discrimination by college clubs
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee House of Representatives on Monday passed a bill that would prohibit public universities and colleges from implementing non-discrimination policies for student groups.
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‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill’s latest approach is to send gay kids to see a psychiatrist
NASHVILLE, Tenn — Another new version of Tennessee’s Classroom Protection Act, more commonly known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, would require teachers to send gay students to see a psychiatrist.
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Tenn. bill would permit student counselors to reject clients based on religious beliefs
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A former Tennessee state lawmaker turned anti-gay activist has helped draft a bill in the state legislature that would allow graduate student counselors to reject clients based on religious beliefs.
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Chattanooga, Tenn., elects first openly gay candidate to city council
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — City council candidate Chris Anderson made history Tuesday night when he became the first openly gay candidate to win an election in Chattanooga, Tenn.