Wisns middle school featur 'This Book is Gay' library, stirrg onle outrage | WLUK

Contents:

• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• 'KIDNAPPED FOR CHRIST,' PLANNED DOCUMENTARY, AIMS TO EXPOSE 'EX-GAY' EXPERIENC IN CHRISTIAN REFORM SCHOOLS

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

The Temecula Valley Unified School District (TVUSD) voted agast implementg a textbook that mentns late gay rights activist Harvey Milk, cg ncerns over his alleged sexual relatnship wh mors. "Milk was the first gay man to w an electn San Francis.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

" A close-up of Amerin polician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk (1930-1978) as he mpaigns for a posn on the San Francis Board of Supervisors September 1977. 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.

In September 2015, a gay teenager who had been imprisoned at RYA before the March raid was then shipped to Blsed Hope by his mother; a police report, acrdg to a tective faiar wh the document who asked to rema anonymo bee 's a juvenile se, and nversatns wh Kennedy, the teen charged that Wiggs had asslted him, clarg beforehand, "I'm gog to get the mon out of you and make you straight. Florida ernor Ron DeSantis signed the state’s much-discsed Parental Rights Edutn bill—much more equently lled the Don’t Say Gay bill—to law on Monday, makg the state the fifth the natn where tors and staff are explicly prohibed om discsg LGBTQ people and issu as part of curriculums public schools. Other active Don’t Say Gay tn bills exist Texas, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Louisiana.

The prev s had, on the ntrary, seen the removal of several Don’t Say Gay statut ncerng public schools. Acrdg to The Hill, the state’s bill uld be jt the begng of a wave of new Don’t Say Gay legislatn for schools.

'KIDNAPPED FOR CHRIST,' PLANNED DOCUMENTARY, AIMS TO EXPOSE 'EX-GAY' EXPERIENC IN CHRISTIAN REFORM SCHOOLS

New wave of Don't Say Gay bills? Olr Don’t Say Gay laws had generally also rtricted stctn for all age levels, wh their wordg rangg om “homosexualy is not a liftyle acceptable to the general public” (Texas) to puttg LGBTQ sexualy the same tegory as tn about “current state laws related to sexual nduct, cludg forcible rape, statutory rape” (Mississippi), even though gay sex is no longer an offense the state as of 2003. Dpe Don’t Say Gay tn laws currently only affectg five stat, they still touch upon 18% of the U.

Miracle Meadows’ former director San Gayle Clark, 69, pled guilty this year to three mismeanors unts of child neglect creatg a substantial risk of jury, failure to report by a mandated reporter, and obstctg a law enforcement officer. (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.

”Before long, siar mp clubs were croppg up— the Boston area and beyond—“simultaneoly” and “spontaneoly, ” says Sharon Tentarelli, who as a high-school junr 1989 found the GSA at the prtig boardg school Phillips Amy A iendship fed through the gay-rights movementGSAs sprang up anilly bee of the prence of lears who felt a need for them, not a natnal learship stcture that swooped and set them up. Though they varied size and strategy om group to group, they tend to share the same basic visn, one articulated by Kev Jenngs, now 56, then a young high-school history teacher at a Boston-area boardg school lled Conrd Amy: Make gay stunts feel ls alone. In 1988 he found the first club to bear the “GSA” and raised the South a fundamentalist Christian fay whose relativ clud members of the KKK, Jenngs grew up surround by racial tolerance and homophobia, he says.

By the time he me out, he was already his send teachg job; he’d been “forced out” of his first one, Jenngs told me, bee he was gay. At the send school, he grew close to a stunt of his who, upon figurg out his teacher was gay, nfid that he, too, liked men.

”Kev Jenngs (purple shirt) alongsi members of the Conrd Amy Gay-Straight Alliance at the 1993 March on Washgton for Gay, Lbian, and Bi Equal Rights (Courty of Kev Jenngs)It was a pivotal moment for Jenngs, who went on to -found the LGBTQ-youth advocy anizatn today known as GLSEN (formerly the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network), wre var books on LGBTQ jtice schools, and serve as an assistant secretary the Department of Edutn unr Print Barack Obama.