The Bt Gay-Friendly Schools

Contents:

• THE BT GAY-FRIENDLY SCHOOLS
• WHAT'S LIFE LIKE FOR GAY KIDS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
• GAY HIGH SCHOOL BOOKS
• IT WAS A SIMPLE TEAM PHOTO, BUT MEANT THE WORLD TO GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER
• GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI FALLY GET A LOVE SONG OF THEIR OWN
• GAY, BISEXUAL HIGH SCHOOL BOYS RECEIVE LS HIV TN

THE BT GAY-FRIENDLY SCHOOLS

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Jordan Steffy, a gay teen, was ught on vio standg up to his bully, and the ter lled him a hero. In November 2019, Jordan Steffy, a junr at LaPorte High School Indiana, said a fellow classmate posted a homophobic msage about him on Snapchat.

When Steffy nonted the other stunt, the stunt lled him a homophobic slur. Clark, who is openly gay, cid to leave the ceremony stead of givg to the l. "He told me that I was termated bee of my sexual orientatn and that they n't have someone that intifi as gay a learship posn, " Taylor told Insir.

WHAT'S LIFE LIKE FOR GAY KIDS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

When Seth Owen, a high school valedictorian, was kicked out of his home for beg gay, he was worried he wouldn't be able to go to llege — until his teachers stepped . But at home, his relig parents found out that he was gay and told him to move he applied to his dream school, Geetown Universy, the school gave him a fancial aid package that was based on his parents' e even though he was not livg wh them. "I would tell that sophomore kid to hold their head high, roll their shoulrs back and be exactly who they are, " Owen told NBC News.

Keegan Roberts, a gay teenager, has bee one of the youngt elected officials the US at 19. It worked, and Roberts was elected to the cy uncil and beme one of the youngt openly gay elected officials the untry. A lawyer for the school nied the speech was blocked bee Young was gog to e out as gay, but bee he "didn't munite wh school admistrators and his parents and ed appropriate humor , " the Coloradoan LGBTQ advocy group named Out Boulr jumped and offered Young a safe space to give his valedictorian speech.

GAY HIGH SCHOOL BOOKS

At my school, the very place that I first observed queer cursy, I was sred to e out, fearg my own physil and emotnal wasn’t jt the school locker room where I heard homophobic remarks. Gay people are an abomatn and are gog to Hell if they don’t get right wh God. ” Years later he warned: “If you turn out gay, I’ll fuck you up.

Image me, a young black gay Christian male, tryg to rencile my sexualy wh school, home, and church life. What happens to a black gay Christian who liv a hoehold that hat him; who really believed that he was gog to Hell. Perhaps was the support of iends, nts, and those around me that ma me not want to feel ashamed about myself anymore, even if that meant God damng me to the begng of senr year, I went om “I’m gay” to whoever asked, to “Can you stop sayg faggot please?

IT WAS A SIMPLE TEAM PHOTO, BUT MEANT THE WORLD TO GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER

A month later, I cid to no longer participate the mentorship program, and every time I was asked why, I ma exc about beg too time, I retreated to my fantasy world, where I was not sixteen and gay a homophobic environment, but a world where I was olr, the future, when I would arrive to a betiful home om a long day at work, and be weled by a hband who lov me and bears my burns on his shoulrs. I was thrilled to be leavg and movg on, but I uld see that many of my fellow graduat were facg siar hurdl, on that I had enuntered, and had only masked their tth wh homophobia. In orr to be nsired for this rankg, a school had to appear on eher The Advote's list of the 100 bt schools for LGBT stunts or 's list of gay-iendly mp.

And the rult is a list of schools wh great amic standards and a mp atmosphere that is iendly to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Our RankgsContributg edor Peter Bernste and rearcher Courtney Kennedy drew on dozens of sourc to pile the rankgs cludg rmatn om the Natnal Center for Edutn Statistics, The Washgton Monthly, and College Prowler.

The Universy of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League llege Philalphia is on seven of Newsweek's "bt of" lists, rankg 13th on our list of most sirable lleg; eighth on the list of most sirable urban lleg; send for most sirable large mp; sixth schools bt for future power brokers; first for gay-iendls and diversy; and fally, 18th among the 25 bt lleg for the super-smart. 18), bt gay-iendly (No.

GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI FALLY GET A LOVE SONG OF THEIR OWN

9) the school nabbed the number 2 spot on Newsweek's gay-iendly list is no surprise to stunts. "Berkeley is home to a proud LGBTIQQ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Intersex, Queer and Qutng) muny, which has a large prence on mp and mak the environment feel more tolerant, " wr one stunt on public school has an unrgraduate enrollment of jt over 25, 500, 53 percent of who were women the fall of 2009.

It is also on Newsweek's list of bt gay-iendly schools (No. Noted for s gay-iendls by both The Advote and posns the school at No.

GAY, BISEXUAL HIGH SCHOOL BOYS RECEIVE LS HIV TN

6 on Newsweek's list of most diverse praise om both The Advote and, Newsweek also ranks the school the sixth bt gay-iendly the natn. Wh praise for s gay-iendly culture om both The Advote and, PSU - specifilly, their ma mp at Universy Park - tak seventh place on Newsweek's list of gay-iendly schools. 8 on Newsweek's list of the bt gay-iendly lleg.

"You n fd any kd of background here, whether you are speakg about ethnicy or relign, " wr one stunt on "Addnally, the mp is fely more liberal and is very acceptg to gays and lbians. Thanks to the school's reputatn for gay-iendls upled wh s amic crentials, the school plac nth on Newsweek's list of schools where gays get As, jt one more acla the school has racked up sce s foundg the 40, 000-pl stunts who attend Indiana Universy, more than 31, 000 are unrgrads.