A battle over rabow stickers at MacArthur High School Irvg, Texas, has hobbled the Gay-Straight Alliance and left LGBTQ stunts feelg unsafe.
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- A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
- WILL TEXAS ADOPT ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW AS STRICT AS FLORIDA’S L?
- ITEM: TARRANT COUNTY GAY PRI WEEK ASSOCIATN AT GAY PRI WEEK PARA
A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
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"The rabow flag has been a universal symbol of LGBTQ pri, equaly and cln sce June 1978, when ma s but at the San Francis Gay Freedom Day missn led Hernanz's favor last month, acrdg to Gonzalez, but she sent the agency a letter of appeal Friday.
She told NBC News that Hernanz's plat and the missn's cisn his favor are "homophobia s most transparent, clear fn. And Colorado November, five people were killed and several jured when a gunman shot them si a gay nightclub. June has been an important month for the LGBTQ+ rights movement sce New York Cy’s first Pri march — then dubbed the “Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day” march — on June 28, 1970.
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WILL TEXAS ADOPT ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW AS STRICT AS FLORIDA’S L?
Orlando-area theme parks and hotels will play host to annual Gay Days events this weekend, which are gog ahead even after Florida Gov. One faculty sponsor of the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance is facg havg her ntract termated, another is preparg to rign, and a third has been removed om the classroom. Two teachers said that the school’s prcipal asked teachers to take down gay pri flags their classrooms and offic.
Several stunts said that eher they or their classmat have been lled homophobic slurs and bullied, and school staff members have failed to tervene.
Some said they’re disuraged by the Irvg Inpennt School District’s rponse to the ncerns they’ve raised through the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) and school board meetgs, and they feel ls safe at school than they did a year ago. 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.
ITEM: TARRANT COUNTY GAY PRI WEEK ASSOCIATN AT GAY PRI WEEK PARA
” It all started wh teachers postg small rabow stickers — long a symbol of the gay pri movement — outsi their classrooms to show stunts that they were LGBTQ alli. 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.