Middle school kids fight to form gay-straight alliance - INDY Week

Contents:

• STUNTS WALK OUT PROTT AFTER HIGH SCHOOL SPENDS ALLEGEDLY BULLIED GAY TEEN
• PARENTS WHO SAY GAY SON WAS BULLIED AT EVERETT SCHOOL FILE $20M CLAIM
• LGBTQ YOUTH FIGHT BACK AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• MIDDLE SCHOOL KIDS FIGHT TO FORM GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE
• VIRAL VIO OF TEEN PUNCHG CLASSMATE DRAWS ATTENTN TO ANTI-GAY BULLYG

STUNTS WALK OUT PROTT AFTER HIGH SCHOOL SPENDS ALLEGEDLY BULLIED GAY TEEN

Hundred of stunts Missouri walked out of their high school prott on Monday after a gay teen who allegedly faced weeks of harassment was spend followg a physil fight wh the spected Lillis, an openly gay senr at Lee's Summ High School, told The Kansas Cy Star that he and his iends have been the subjects of bullyg om another group of stunts sce the begng of the school a walkout at school, Gay kid was bullied for months and asslted last week. Hundreds of high school stunts Missouri walked out of class support of a gay stunt who was allegedly harrassed and spend followg a fight wh bulli.

EVERETT — The parents of a gay, 13-year-old stunt who was allegedly bullied for more than a year, g him to e home cryg and eventually to leave school, have filed a $20 ln claim agast Everett Public Evergreen Middle School seventh grar was ntually subject to homophobic slurs and twice beaten up fights viotaped and upload onto an Instagram page voted to brawls at the school, acrdg to his parents, Nile and Doug. Summg up that experience, he said: “I’m known the school, and I’m gay, and that mak me an immediate target. More young people than ever before intify as LGBTQ+: A Centers for Disease Control and Preventn report released April found roughly a quarter of high school stunts surveyed around the untry intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or “other/qutng, ” wh bisexual reprentg the largt share.

Still, lol schools are not immune om homophobia.

PARENTS WHO SAY GAY SON WAS BULLIED AT EVERETT SCHOOL FILE $20M CLAIM

Greg Stair, an Everett High School visual arts teacher and adviser to the school’s gay-straight alliance, said he rarely hears about physil bullyg. But stunts will tell him they often hear the word “gay” beg ed a negative way.

LGBTQ YOUTH FIGHT BACK AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

The teen had ially been iends wh the girls, but somethg ed a seventh grar said there were many other gay kids at school — cludg those belongg to a large “rabow club” that existed until the faculty adviser left last year — who did not appear to be bullied.

MIDDLE SCHOOL KIDS FIGHT TO FORM GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE

Although some said they believed others had lled the seventh grar homophobic nam, they said the fights had nothg to do wh his sexualy — attributg the scuffl stead to a variety of differenc, cludg his own name-llg and animosy.

VIRAL VIO OF TEEN PUNCHG CLASSMATE DRAWS ATTENTN TO ANTI-GAY BULLYG

Democratic policians across California nmned a volatile anti-gay prott outsi a suburban Los Angel school board meetg on Tuday, as the school board heard public ment on whether to officially signate June as LGBTQ+ Pri month. The cy uncil Huntgton Beach had prevly voted not to display the Pri flag on cy the state’s Inland Empire regn, a school board Temecula rejected a history curriculum bee of s mentn of the murred civil rights activist Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California history, who was posthumoly award the printial medal of eedom. ”Lol news acunts and footage of the volatile anti-gay protters Glendale and North Hollywood showed some protters g rhetoric now mon far-right protts across the Uned Stat, suggtg that LGBTQ+ people are pedophil or predators, and argug that any mentn of the existence of gay people or gay fai is appropriate for young children.