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Daily Fix: New South Wales Education Minister Nixes High School Showing of “Gayby Baby” and More News
Kids in New South Wales won’t see Gayby Baby at school for Wear It Purple Day, Donald Trump kicks Jorge Ramos out of his press conference, women vote in Saudi Arabia, Walmart no longer selling assault weapons, and more.
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New Orleans LGBT Youth Of Color with BreakOUT! Declare “We Deserve Better”
“We are surviving. We are resilient. We are creative and resourceful. We have each other’s backs. We don’t want your pity.”
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Top 10 Queer and Feminist-y Moments of Degrassi Season 13
“Let’s take a moment of silence for all of us women in the U.S. who did not know until this season that in Canada y’all throw axes for fun, and who are now contemplating crossing the border. I can’t be the only one whose world was rocked this hard by axe throwing.”
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LGBTQ Students Need Representation in Textbooks — and a Whole Lot More
On the 45th anniversary of Stonewall and the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, it is worth interrogating how we learn and know our histories — and the conditions that contribute to our learning environment.
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Tennessee Senate Passes Bill That’ll Let Gay Kids Get Bullied Because “Religious Freedom”
The law also specifically mentions high school football captains as students automatically permitted to preach the gospel at school-wide events.
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Kids Reacting To Same-Sex Marriage Will Brighten Your Day
A message for anyone who thinks gay people shouldn’t be allowed to marry whom they want? “Cry me a river, build me a bridge, and get over it.”
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Trail Life USA Tries to Blaze A New Trail For Anti-Gay Scouting
Luckily there are other scouting alternatives for your kids!
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New Legislation Could Mean Change for Homeless Queer Youth – But Not Enough
Despite the fact that LGBT youth comprise a disproportionate amount of the youth homeless population, the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act currently does not contain language or requirements to specifically protect this vulnerable population.
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Lesbians Win “Cutest Couple” In High School Yearbook, Are In Fact The Cutest Couple
Students in an allegedly ‘conservative’ rural county in California vote a lesbian couple as “cutest couple,” and it wasn’t a prank or anything.
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People Besides Homeless Gay Teens Maybe Starting to Notice Gay Teen Homelessness
“If people really come to care about homeless gay teens, it means that they’re willing to care about more than gay marriage or cute pictures of weddings at city hall.”
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Bradlee Dean’s Anti-Gay Metal Band Rocks Iowa School to Everyone’s Horror and Dismay
“In the aftermath of the apparently horrific “performance,” the school is now scrambling to not only recover the money paid to the Junkyard Prophets but provide counseling to the students who attended it.”
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Effort to Repeal California Gay History in Schools Officially Fails
The people trying to repeal SB 48, California’s gay history bill, aren’t going to be able to pull it off.
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14-Year-Old Gay Teen Phillip Parker Kills Himself in Tennesee
Phillip Parker was 14 years old. He was gay and he lived in Tennessee and now he is dead.
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For The Sake of the Children: Why America Needs to Realize Gay Families Are Real
“Public discussion about American families often assumes the nation is largely made up of married heterosexual couples raising their biological children. Yet less than a quarter of all U.S. households fall into this category”
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More Schoolgirls in India Might Be Lesbians
“The fact that they are mustering the courage to come for help on their own is indeed a paradigm shift.”
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More Visible Than Purple: LGBT Kids and the Road to Safer Schools
I wish we were all in a room so I could say, “If you are LGBTQI, could you please raise your hand if you believe you had room to develop your identity at your preK-12 schools? Your full identity?”
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Anti-Gays Find “Repealing CA’s Gay History Mandate” Quite Challenging, Not an Easy A
Forget about the fact that most California public schools can’t even afford new textbooks — let’s make sure that when they do, Harvey Milk isn’t mentioned anywhere.
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Ontario Catholic School Bans Rainbows. Yup. Rainbows! They Banned RAINBOWS.
A Catholic school in Ontario has banned rainbows. Can we take a moment to appreciate how ridiculous this is.
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The Obama Adminstration’s War On Gay Teen Homelessness
“…every child and youth who is unable to live with his or her parents is entitled to a safe, loving and affirming foster care placement, irrespective of the young person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression,”
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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?