KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: LGBT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS –WHAT TO DO IF YOU FACE HARASSMENT AT SCHOOL Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) stunts face discrimatn and harassment at school all too often. Unfortunately, many school officials know very ltle about how the law requir them to protect LGBT stunts. And sometim they do know that they're breakg the law, but
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AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
The Edutn Department on Wednday issued guidance that Tle IX prohibs discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty, a reversal of the Tmp admistratn’s stance that gay and transgenr stunts are not protected by the law. * gay rights school *
“Don’t Say Gay” or “No Promo Homo” Laws Are Invalid.
If your school’s drs allows stunts to wear T-shirts wh slogans, is unlawful for your school to ask you to take off your shirt jt bee endors gay pri.
A Southern California school board has bee the latt proxy for culture wars brewg across the untry after a nservative bloc voted to formally reject state-endorsed curriculum that would have mentned gay rights figure Harvey Milk. * gay rights school *
You Have the Right To Form Gay-Straight Allianc (GSAs) or Genr & Sexualy Allianc. The anizatns are stunt-led groups that provi a safe, supportive environment for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and qutng youth and their alli.
You have the right to be ee om nversn therapy or church servic that say negative thgs about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people.
The Florida Don't Say Gay law shows the opposg velopments ncerng LGBTQ tn U.S. schools. While some stat have been tablishg legal foundatns for LGBTQ curriculums recently, Florida is gog the oppose directn and more stat are expected to follow s example. * gay rights school *
(Nati Harnik / AP)Edor’s Note: This article is part of a seri about the gay-rights movement and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall groups have always been about a simple, key objective: Stop all the groups are GSAs—Genr-Sexualy Allianc, though they were origally known as Gay-Straight Allianc—and that was their missn when they first rose to promence the late 1980s. Perhaps, the theory was, jt by existg, the groups uld make gay kids feel ls alone, and that self uld rce suici risk, which was mon among gay teens at the Lipk, a former high-school history teacher, an thor, and a proment LGBTQ-rights advote, was one of the GSA movement’s earlit pneers. (Lipk, now his early 70s, drew spiratn om another queer-advocy school group, the Los Angel–based Project 10, the name a reference to Aled Ksey’s theory that about 10 percent of men are gay.