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Court turns down student over religious speech

365 Gay News  Nov 16 09

(Washington) The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a student who complained that high school officials violated her constitutional rights when they turned off her microphone during her religion-tinged graduation speech.
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Proms, Plays, & Yearbooks: Erasing queer lives from school

Topix Gay News  Nov 13 09

Recent school controversies around the country demonstrate how parents , administrators, and other school officials are harming students and teaching homophobia and intolerance.
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Bullying led Ala. 12-year-old to suicide, family says

Qnews  Oct 31 09

Family members say persistent bullying led 12-year old Trey Figures to commit suicide photo via Anniston Star

12-year-old Tre'Juan Figures, called Trey by family and friends, took his own life Tuesday in Anniston, Ala.
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Must read: Maine reporter finds Mass. marriage equality doesn’t drive local school policy

Qnews  Oct 30 09

For a story in today’s paper, Matt Wickenheiser, a reporter for the Portland (ME) Press Herald, traveled down to Massachusetts to check out one of the persistent claims of anti-gay activists, who are campaigning to overturn Maine’s marriage equality law:

Opponents of same-sex marriage in Maine have suggested that if the law stands, schools will teach children about gay marriage.
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High school teacher suspended after controversial assignment

Wicked Gay Blog  Oct 30 09

Teacher Dan DeLong (pictured left) is beloved by many of his students, as an educator who pushes the envelope for his students.
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School officials downplay gay aspect of rock musical

Yahoo Gay News / The Salt Lake Tribune  Oct 22 09

Judge Memorial Catholic High's drama department raised the curtain Thursday night on the rock musical "Rent" despite criticism from some Utah Catholics and a priest offended by the play's gay characters.
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Lesbian honor student fights school’s ban on yearbook tuxedo

Qnews  Oct 20 09

Source: WLBT TV, CBS News, Associated Press

Ceara Sturgis and her mother, Victoria Rodriguez talk to media about the refusal of a Mississipi high school to let Sturis wear a tuxedo for her yearbook photo.
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Officials Respond to Lesbian Student: 'No' to Tuxedo Photo

Google Lesbian News / SheWired  Oct 19 09

In-Forum Officials Respond to Lesbian Student: 'No' to Tuxedo PhotoSheWiredSchool officials in Mississippi have denied the lawful request of a Mississippi lesbian student who wanted .
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Gay Student Fights to Wear Tuxedo in Yearbook Photo

Google Gay News / New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV  Oct 16 09

New York Daily News Gay Student Fights to Wear Tuxedo in Yearbook PhotoNew York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV(WPIX) - An openly gay high school student in Mississippi is fighting with school officials for the right to wear a tuxedo in her upcoming yearbook portrait .
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More Lies From Stand For Marriage

Joe My God  Oct 16 09

Despite repeated editorials and stories from Maine's newspapers, including this one about Attorney General Janet Mills, the good Christians at Stand For Marriage continue their brazen campaign of lies, as witnessed by their new ad below.
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SFMM/ Yes On 1 Outdoes Themself With New Ad

Pams House blend  Oct 16 09

OMFG...

At least it's appropriately entitled: "Give Me A Break"!

Un-fucking-believeable.
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Teen Lesbian Gets Photo Pulled From High School Yearbook

Joe My God  Oct 16 09

Openly lesbian Mississippi high school senior Ceara Sturgis had her photo pulled from her school's yearbook because she dared to pose in a tuxedo.
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Lesbian student in Miss. fights for tuxedo photo

Topix Gay News  Oct 15 09

Everyone at Wesson Attendance Center knows 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis is gay because she's never tried to hide it.
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GA High School Ejects Cross-Dressing Boy

Joe My God  Oct 07 09

Before he enrolled, school officials at a Kennesaw, Georgia high school assured Jonathan Escobar, 16, that he would be allowed to cross-dress as he pleased.
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Del Rio schools chief says turning back students at border was ...

Google Gay Parenting News / Dallas Morning News  Sep 22 09

Montgomery County Courier Del Rio schools chief says turning back students at border was ...Dallas Morning NewsERIC GAY/The Associated Press Students walk home after classes at Lamar Elementary in Del Rio.
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No kissing at schools in France?

America Blog  Sep 07 09

Quelle horreur! In social settings, the French meet and depart with a kiss on the cheek (well, both cheeks actually), and the process can take some time for a fuzzy foreigner like myself who didn't grow up with the custom.
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Iowa: school officials strip-search five teen girls

Pams House blend  Sep 07 09

And why does the school board reserve the right to do this -- no parental consent required?

Family members said this week that Atlantic high school officials forced five teenage girls to remove their clothes during an investigation into a theft.
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DC Offers STI Tests for All High School Students

Topix Gay News  Aug 06 09

August 5, 2009 Washington, DC, school officials have announced that all public high schools in the city will offer screenings for sexually transmitted infections (STI) in the coming school year, expanding a pilot program that revealed an increase in STI prevalence among young people, The Washington Post reports.
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Anti-gay Singapore prof cancels NYU stint after uproar

Yahoo Gay News / AFP via Yahoo! News  Jul 24 09

A Singaporean law professor has pulled out of a teaching stint at New York University after her hardline anti-gay views triggered a backlash on campus, school officials said.
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Thomas and Schoolkids

The Tin Man  Jun 25 09

Once again, Clarence Thomas proves that he is a man of the 19th century. In a bad way. Case in point is this morning’s decision in Safford Unified School District #1 v.
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