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LGBT Students Stand Against Discrimination

By Holly Grigg-Spall | Wednesday Jun 12, 2013
LGBT youth around the country are standing up anti-gay bullying and school administrators who have allegedly tried to silence gay students.

25,000 Support Six-Year-Old Trans Girl Facing Discrimination

By Lindsay King- Miller | Tuesday Mar 12, 2013
The family of a Colorado transgender six-year-old is standing firm in their refusal to return their child to school unless she is allowed to use the girls’ restroom. And more than 25,000 have lent their support via a Change.org petition.

Indiana Teacher Suspended Over Anti-Gay Remarks

Thursday Feb 21, 2013
An Indiana school district reeling from the uproar over a teacher’s comments that she believes gays have no purpose in life suspended the woman Wednesday.

Gay-Exclusive High School Prom Continues to Disrupt Indiana Town

By Jason St. Amand | Wednesday Feb 13, 2013
Officials at a northern Indiana high school are saying that its prom will be open to LGBT couples, but one group is planning an "inclusive" unofficial prom, another a non-LGBT prom, while one outside teacher defended her anti-gay statements.

Indiana High School Students, Parents Seek Gay-Free Prom

By Jason St. Amand | Monday Feb 11, 2013
Students and even a teacher from an Indiana high school are pushing for a prom that would prohibit gay students from attending.

S. African School Claims It Can ’Cure’ Gay Students

By Jason St. Amand | Tuesday Jan 15, 2013
LGBT activists are criticizing a South African school for discriminating against gay students and for having a program that can "cure" homosexuality.

Gay Marriage Flap: D.C. College Reinstates Official

By Ben Nuckols | Tuesday Jan 8, 2013
The nation’s leading university for the deaf and hard of hearing has reinstated its chief diversity officer, who was suspended for three months after signing a petition circulated by opponents of gay marriage in Maryland.

Court Upholds Firing of Anti-Gay College Employee

By Jason St. Amand | Friday Dec 21, 2012
A federal appeals court upheld the University of Toledo’s decision to fire the Ohio school’s vice president of human resources after she made anti-gay comments in an article she wrote condemning gay marriage.

Michigan Teacher Says She was Suspended Over Song

Thursday Nov 29, 2012
A Detroit-area middle school teacher says she’s been suspended for playing a song about being gay during class.

Christian School Allegedly Denies Teacher Job Because He’s Gay

By Jason St. Amand | Friday Jun 8, 2012
A music teacher from Cincinnati, Ohio, says officials from a Christian school retracted their job offer after they found out he is gay.