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Contents:

• A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
• VIO SHOWS GAY DIXON HIGH SCHOOL STUNT BEATEN HALLWAY
• VIRAL VIO OF TEEN PUNCHG CLASSMATE DRAWS ATTENTN TO ANTI-GAY BULLYG
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• STUNTS CHALLENGE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAWS AMID WAVE OF ANTI-LGBTQ LEGISLATN
• LGBT STUNTS FIGHT ‘CAN’T SAY GAY’ SCHOOL POLICI THAT SILENCE TEACHERS, ISOLATE YOUNG PEOPLE
• PARENTS WHO SAY GAY SON WAS BULLIED AT EVERETT SCHOOL FILE $20M CLAIM
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• GAY HIGH SCHOOLER SAYS HE'S 'BEG SILENCED' BY FLORIDA'S LGBTQ LAW
• I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY
• ‘BOTTOMS’ REVIEW: EMMA SELIGMAN’S WILD RI OF A HIGH SCHOOL COMEDY IS A GONZO GAY ‘FIGHT CLUB’ MEETS ‘HEATHERS’
• A GAY STUNT TALKG ABOUT BULLYG AT A MASSACHETTS SCHOOL BOARD MEETG WAS SHOUTED OVER BY A WOMAN YELLG 'THIS IS THE DOCTRATN'
• GAY RIGHTS
• TENNSEE UNTY SCHOOL BOARD MEETS -- BUT BACKS OFF ON REMOVG “GAY” CLUB OM HIGH SCHOOL. LGBT ACTIVISTS CELEBRATG. LOL PARENTS ARE LIVID AND FIGHTG BACK.
• EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS

A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL

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.

VIO SHOWS GAY DIXON HIGH SCHOOL STUNT BEATEN HALLWAY

”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. Many wore intil T-shirts readg “Leave our kids alone, ” and some voked Christian fah as the reason for their opposn to Pri events are faiar l of attack that have often been mobilised by anti-gay activists the past, cludg by Ana Bryant her “Save our Children” mpaign the 1970s, which also foced on “parents’ rights” as a way to ph back agast advanc civil rights for gay as equaly for LGBTQ+ people has bee creasgly popular and accepted the US, wh 71% of rponnts a recent Gallup poll exprsg support for same-sex marriage, many Amerins scribed the renewed attacks as ighteng and disturbg. Trans people have been sgled out as the foc of much of the legislatn, and ntue to be the target of many particularly vilent polil attacks, but, as Florida’s “don’t say gay” law, which regulat what tors are allowed to discs public school classrooms, any mentn of genr inty or homosexualy is now g unr attack.

Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about. ” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe. ” After same-sex marriage was legalized natnwi and LGBTQ+ people uld openly start servg the ary, right-wg activists turned their attentn to transnal re for transgenr mors, barrg public drag shows, genr-ntral bathroom laws and gettg “progrsive” books banned om schools, Myrick prott at the school, Myrick said, shows the revalizatn of “gay panic” — the belief that beg gay is “ntag” and that “we n’t let our kids hear there are gay people bee might turn them gay.

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

And advot for LGBTQ stunts are alarmed by some parents’ recent mands that schools prohib stunts om anizg Gay-Straight Allianc, llg them “pornographic” and suggtg they would turn children clash at MacArthur, a suburb northwt of Dallas, was not the rult of a new law or policy, or a public prsure mpaign at school board meetgs. “They’re not gog to e out outright and say, ‘Don’t say gay, ’” she said of the school admistratn, “but they’re gog to make as difficult as possible for you to be allowed to exprs yourself or even learn about how you feel, who you are and your inty. Acrdg to her personnel file, which Stonecipher shared wh NBC News, the district’s human rourc office believed that Stonecipher had lled MacArthur’s prcipal “homophobic, ” which Stonecipher ni, and that she ma lleagu unfortable when she shared her opn about LGBTQ issu.

A feral judge later tossed the 2018, the district faced cricism om LGBTQ anizatns when a teacher reported that the district banned “Love Is Love, ” a ic book created to support survivors of the mass shootg at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, followg a plat that the book featured “extreme homosexualy. “It jt felt very targeted towards people I knew, like they were tryg to get teachers or stunts trouble, ” said Aly Harb, a sophomore and GSA member, who was also lled for a meetg wh HR district did not rpond to qutns about the meetgs. “Both sis took to social media to rally their supporters to nvene at GUSD headquarters ahead of the last board meetg of the school year, ” police 's a crime to be gay:A visual gui to where LGBTQ rights are reprsedVio shows fight break out, prottors throwg punchWhile most protters were peaceful, police said a small group of dividuals engaged “behavr emed unsafe and a risk to public safety.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

The prott rulted fights between prottors and a nflictg group that was on the scene to show support for the LGBTQ+ learng that Satiy Elementary School was planng a Gay Pri Spir/Rabow Day Assembly on June 2, parents opposed to the cisn formed an Instagram acunt lled Satiy Elementary Parents.

"After same-sex marriage was legalized natnwi and LGBTQ+ people uld openly start servg the ary, right-wg activists turned their attentn to transnal re for transgenr mors, barrg public drag shows, genr-ntral bathroom laws and gettg "progrsive" books banned om schools, Myrick prott at the school, Myrick said, shows the revalizatn of "gay panic" — the belief that beg gay is "ntag" and that "we n't let our kids hear there are gay people bee might turn them gay.

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person. "The Court rejected the dissent's assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, " ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket's the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on "exprsive associatn" grounds.

STUNTS CHALLENGE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAWS AMID WAVE OF ANTI-LGBTQ LEGISLATN

"We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, 's gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, " Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert, he noted there has been no such fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people. "I​​t would have felt appropriate as the first openly gay class print a public school, not to addrs a piece of legislatn that's gog to harm gay children public schools Florida, " Moricz told ABC has been outspoken agast the Florida law that bans LGBTQ curriculum om some classrooms.

Hillsborough High School stunts prott a Republin-backed bill dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" that would prohib classroom discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty, a measure Democrats nounced as beg anti-LGBTQ, Tampa, Fla., March 3, 2022.

"Moricz said he faced opposn durg his fal months at Pe View School Osprey, Florida, over stunt walkouts agast the "Don't Say Gay" law or the potential mentng of polil issu durg his graduatn school told ABC News that the prcipal did meet wh Moricz "to remd him of the ceremony expectatns, but the ntent of the speech had not been submted or reviewed at the time of that meetg. “We honor and celebrate the credible diversy thought, belief, and background our school, and champn the uniquens of every sgle stunt on their personal and tnal journey, " said Stephen Covert, the prcipal of Pe View now, Moricz is leavg the Florida school system amid a broar effort agast the "Don't Say Gay" bill -- he's sug the state alongsi other fai and LGBTQ advocy Equaly plat alleg that the law vlat the nstutnally protected rights of ee speech, equal protectn and due procs of stunts and Ron DeSantis' office nounced the lawsu. Louisiana’s law prohibs teachers om g any “sexually explic materials pictg male or female homosexual activy, ” a narrower prohibn than some of the other laws erng schools but one that nfn and fear among the state’s teachers nohels.

LGBT STUNTS FIGHT ‘CAN’T SAY GAY’ SCHOOL POLICI THAT SILENCE TEACHERS, ISOLATE YOUNG PEOPLE

One mon rult of the “n’t say gay” laws and district polici is to make teachers unsure whether they n tervene anti-LGBT bullyg or what they n offer the way of support when a stunt like Ricks is grapplg wh harsh reactns to his or her inty. 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.

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

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.

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. WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman.

Proponents of the measure have ntend that giv parents more discretn over what their children learn school and say LGBTQ issu are “not age appropriate” for young crics have argued that the law uld stifle teachers and stunts om talkg about their inti or their lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer fay members. ”“The reason somethg like the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law seems like nothg but is actually everythg is that when you nnot talk about or share who you are, there is a nstant subnsc affirmatn that you are not valid, that you should not exist, ” Moricz fight agast the legislatn is personal for Moricz, he add.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

"The lsons had been "misreprented by parents", he said, addg the school do not promote homosexualy and seeks to weave the language of equaly to everyday school ptn, Lead protter Shakeel Afsar is "bterly disappoted" by the banSce June protters have gathered jt outsi the excln the hearg last month, the cy uncil argued an terim junctn should be extend beyond school gat and ma permanent. Only a handful of the people who regularly gathered outsi the school were parents or had any direct nnectn wh Anrton Park, but the monstrators do reflect ncern felt by some relig muni about equaly teachg, and particularly lsons about same sex won't matter to them that the judge has said their allegatns about "promotg" homosexualy are false and that they have "misreprented" what is beg tght the school.

I was one of few soldiers who joed the service before graduatg high school, but the admistratn at the time, which I believe was homophobic, chose to act as if I never existed bee of my queer hate that I experienced growg up on Long Island was my first enunter wh how others would treat me as a queer soldier. ”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported. “Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30.

“The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds. “We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people. “As a gay man wh no children and no real sire to have children, I feel like I should never know the nam of the people on the school board, let alone have to stand up agast them, ” said Zachary Goff of Newberg, who lnched the petn, which has gotten over 1, 000 signatur.

GAY HIGH SCHOOLER SAYS HE'S 'BEG SILENCED' BY FLORIDA'S LGBTQ LAW

Origs: Acrdg to a report by Deputy Mike Rt wh the Lanster Sheriff’s Statn of the Los Angel County Sheriff’s Department, the basis of the acunt scribed was not a se of gay-bashg rultg ser juri, but of a fight that broke out between two Lanster High School stunts (one male and one female) on 25 September 2012 over a feteria le-cuttg cint, which left one of the participants wh mor juri and end wh both stunts' beg arrted and spend:. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.

I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK

Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group. ”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review. That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.

”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn. 1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials.

Siar groups followed, cludg the Gay Activists Alliance, Radilbians, and Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari (STAR) 1970, at the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, New York Cy muny members marched through lol streets memoratn of the event.

SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY

Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri.

In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985.

‘BOTTOMS’ REVIEW: EMMA SELIGMAN’S WILD RI OF A HIGH SCHOOL COMEDY IS A GONZO GAY ‘FIGHT CLUB’ MEETS ‘HEATHERS’

But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt  Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn.

A GAY STUNT TALKG ABOUT BULLYG AT A MASSACHETTS SCHOOL BOARD MEETG WAS SHOUTED OVER BY A WOMAN YELLG 'THIS IS THE DOCTRATN'

In 1994, a new anti-hate-crime law allowed judg to impose harsher sentenc if a crime was motivated by a victim’s sexual Matthew Shepard ActCourty of the Matthew Shepard FoundatnMatthew Shepard, who was btally killed a hate crime 2003, gay rights proponents had another b of happy news: the U.

Gay rights proponents mt also ntent wh an creasg number of “relig liberty” state laws, which allow bs to ny service to LGBTQ dividuals due to relig beliefs, as well as “bathroom laws” that prevent transgenr dividuals om g public bathrooms that don’t rrpond to their sex at birth.

GAY RIGHTS

"When we showed gay people, " he says, "when we elevated the voic of gay people as part of the nversatn — and I say this as someone who is gay — we wanted to show the gay people as part of a fay, the gay people as part of a workplace, the gay people this se as part of a classroom. A North Hollywood elementary school already alg wh parental protts over an upg Pri assembly was facg further turmoil after a transgenr teacher’s Pri flag was burned by a mp tr, police and sourc angst at Satiy Elementary School has ratcheted up sce parents created an Instagram acunt on May 16 prottg the school’s Pri month assembly, durg which admistrators planned to talk about fai wh gay parents.

TENNSEE UNTY SCHOOL BOARD MEETS -- BUT BACKS OFF ON REMOVG “GAY” CLUB OM HIGH SCHOOL. LGBT ACTIVISTS CELEBRATG. LOL PARENTS ARE LIVID AND FIGHTG BACK.

EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS