Results for: meet up
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Maine, Virginia and Minnesota Grant New Trans Student Rights, With Room For Improvement
While it’s great that these states are granting trans students rights, Virginia and Minnesota are still putting up a lot of hurdles for potential trans athletes.
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MTV’s New Fake Lesbian Show “Faking It” Makes Me So Confused
On April 22, MTV will be premiering a new comedy about two girls who pretend to be lesbians together in order to get popular at school. Needless to say, this has me very confused.
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Ontario’s New High School Gender Studies Class Will Probs Change The World
Ontario’s high schools will offer a gender studies class next semester.
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Lake County Middle School Invents Time Machine, Returns With Backwards Views on Gay-Straight Alliances
“Others spoke out against the alliance, saying the real issue is bullying. Students, they said, would not find the support they need in a gay-straight group.”
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Toronto Decides Whether It Needs Separate Gay High Schools, Or Just Gay Equality
Yes, it’s good for there to be a safe refuge where gay students can learn and thrive in safety, but the goal should be to create this kind of safe environment in mainstream schools.
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Troy, MI Mayor Suggests Gays Should Be Cured, Manages to Look Like Even More of a Jerk
Michigan mayor’s attempt to get friendly with the gays by attending a Troy High GSA meeting proves insincere.
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Burnaby Parents Will Fight for Their Kids’ Right to Discriminate Against LGBT Students
A group of parents in British Columbia are planning to hold a protest later this evening over the Burnaby school district’s proposed anti-sexual-orientation-based-discrimination policy.
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Mazel Tov, Flour Bluff High School Gets a GSA – For Now
The administrators of Flour Bluff High School are making major strides, all it took was the threat of a lawsuit from the ACLU to get them to reluctantly grant a hospitalized teen temporary permission to have a GSA!
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California Textbooks Might Include Gay Role Models, History
What if you had found out about gay historical figures and role models from your teacher, and not frantic late-night googling?
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Seriously, Who Does A Gay Teen Have To Petition To Get A GSA Around Here
This isn’t the first time a high school has threatened to cut all extracurricular clubs because they didn’t want to have a Gay Straight Alliance. But this week marks the first time someone actually has! Way to go, Flour Bluff High School in Texas!
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Gay Teens Continue Fighting for Their Right to Party at Prom: Meet Hannah Williams.
Hannah Williams tried to bring her girlfriend to a formal and her school principle said it would ruin her ability to meet boys. Also Obama had a gay cross-dressing nanny, and Senator Tom Duane was arrested standing up for the rights of people with HIV/AIDS.
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Lesbian Teen Speaks On Why She Fought to Royally Court Her Girlfriend
“One thing I would really like people to realize is that this was never about getting attention. This was only about Sarah and I wanting to share a special event together, and about showing other LGBT kids that they don’t have to be afraid to be who they are because they are not alone. “
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Everybody Hurts
Not all gay kids are depressed — and not all straight kids are happy. In The New York Times’ “Gay or Straight, Teenagers Aren’t So Different,” experts discuss new research and make salient points. This whole thing reminds me of “Pump up the Volume.”
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Is Oklahoma’s Del City High School Encouraging Lesbian Students to Drop Out? [UPDATED]
Forget prom — lesbians at Del City High School are being told they shouldn’t even bother showing up to graduation.
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Beloved Harlem School Principal Reports Death Threats From Ex-“Lesbian Lover,” Gets Fired
Two female school administrators have an affair. They break up. One threatens to kill the other, who consequently reports this threat. No word on stopping that death threat but the good news is THEY’RE BOTH GETTING FIRED. Thank the good lord b/c I was worried about how this lesbian affair might impact PSAT prep.
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Science For A Brighter Future: Research On Bullying and Gay Teen Suicide
We all know that bullies and homophobes, from the locker room to the Senate, are part of why gay and lesbian teens (and adults) have such ridiculously high rates of suicide. But when a panel of 26 leading researchers back it up, we may finally be on the way to changing things.
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Uncool High Schools: Constance McMillen Transfers, Kern Votes Against Harvey Milk Day
Constance McMillen, the lesbian who wanted to bring her girlfriend to prom, has switched schools to avoid bullying. Harvey Milk Day won’t be celebrated by the teenagers who need it most because of homophobic Prop-8-supporting school administrators! Awesome! Also, gay unions legalized in Portugal, more feelings on Elena Kagan, Montgomery College will have an African-American lesbian president, Christian charities are maybe kind of allowed to legally discrimate sort of, and Jezebel wants to talk to you about women’s colleges.
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Gay Activism Flowers for Earnest/Angry/Dancing Youths of America
All the young gays are celebrating in Seattle, uprising in NYC, dancing in Rutgers (and our strai army allies are dancing homosexily in Afghanistan!), taking back the night in WI, speaking against violence in CA, hosting Dan Choi at Harvard, and more! Also; Hawaii passes civil unions (the bill now goes to the governor), a lesbian stabs her ex, trans identity & faith & Laura Bush’s memoir on the 2004 debates around same-sex marriage.
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Prom is Better Cancelled Than Ruined by Tuxedo-Wearing Lesbians
Rather than allow a lesbian to bring her girlfriend to prom and wear a tux, the school has canceled prom altogether! FANTASTIC. Also; the cute video of the kid finding out about gay people, the death of coffee shops, gays and the census, Bill O’Reily defends lesbian couple’s child and the national equality riders are coming soon to an oppressive campus near you.