Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Sat Vcent and the Grenad face bias-motivated vlence and discrimatn their daily life, Human Rights Watch said a report released today. The legislature should repeal the untry’s lonial-era laws that crimalize nsensual same-sex nduct and pass prehensive civil legislatn prohibg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. The 58-page report, “‘They Can Harass Us Bee of the Laws’: Vlence and Discrimatn agast LGBT People Sat Vcent and the Grenad,” expos the physil and verbal asslts, fay vlence, homelsns, workplace harassment, bullyg, and sexual vlence that sexual and genr mori face unr the shadow of discrimatory laws. Those rponsible for mistreatment clu people close to LGBT people – fay members, neighbors, workers, classmat, and teachers – as well as strangers and police officers.
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- WASHGTON FAY SEEKS $20M FROM SCHOOL DISTRICT OVER GAY SON’S BULLYG
- PARENTS WHO SAY GAY SON WAS BULLIED AT EVERETT SCHOOL FILE $20M CLAIM
- GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG
- COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG
WASHGTON FAY SEEKS $20M FROM SCHOOL DISTRICT OVER GAY SON’S BULLYG
* gay school bullying *
In Washgton state, a fay is seekg $20 ln om a school district after their gay son suffered repeated bullyg and vlence.
As all three enunters, the attackers shouted antigay slurs at the helpls boy.
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.
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.
GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG
Still, lol schools are not immune om homophobia. 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. 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. 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.
In a small voice they tell you: Someone ma fun of them bee one of their "iends" told the class they were gay. "Parents n enurage their children to jo a Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) at their school—or form one themselv wh their iends.
COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG
Stunts schools wh active GSA chapters report fewer homophobic remarks, better terventn om tn personnel, and a greater feelg of acceptance, Dr. Parents n fd further rmatn about helpg LGBTQ+ children through the Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN). Gav Newsom threatened to fe a school board Temecula for refg to teach state-approved LGBTQ+ history lsons that feature sla gay rights lear Harvey actns unrsre polil divisns red pockets of the ep blue state, where Republins have worked to get nservative majori on lol school boards as they lack power the Democrat-ntrolled a chaotic Cho Valley Unified School District meetg Thursday night, Thurmond urged agast a proposal to alert parents about stunts' genr inti, qutng whether vlat privacy laws and llg a safety risk to LGBTQ+ stunts "who may not be hom where they n be safe.
They echo nservative talkg pots about "parental rights" that have been playg out at school boards across the state and gay rights anizatn Equaly California said the policy is the rult of "blatant" homophobia and transphobia. Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, nonbary or otherwise genr non-nformg (LGBTQI+) youth and those perceived as LGBTQI+ are at an creased risk of beg bullied.
High school stunts who self-intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) report havg been bullied on school property (23%) and cyberbullied (27%) the past year than their straight peers (7% and 13%, rpectively). Historilly, YRBS and other studi have gathered data on lbian, gay, and bisexual youth but have not clud qutns about transgenr, non-bary, genr non-nformg, tersex, or queer youth. G., gay-straight allianc or genr and sexualy allianc).