Temecula Valley district had prevly rejected the material due to s cln of gay rights activist and polician Harvey Milk
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AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
Gay-Straight Allianc or Genr-Sexualy Allianc (GSAs): A GSA is a noncurricular stunt-led club — jt like Chs Club or Fellowship of Christian Athlet — for stunts wh a shared tert LGBTQ issu. Schools n be difficult environments for stunts, regardls of their sexual orientatn or genr inty, but they are often pecially unwelg for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) youth. Many LGBT youth have anized gay-straight allianc (GSAs), which n serve as important rourc for stunts and as supportive spac to unteract bullyg and stutnal silence about issu of importance to them.
When stunts themselv began anizg the 1990s, many school admistrators across the US unsuccsfully fought to rtrict the formatn and operatn of gay-straight allianc (GSAs) schools, argug that the clubs were appropriate for youth. One of the most overt mpaigns to keep LGBT topics out of schools was the Briggs Iniative, a ballot measure California 1978 that would have prohibed “the advotg, solicg, imposg, enuragg or promotg of private or public homosexual activy directed at, or likely to e to the attentn of, schoolchildren and/or other employe. Although the Briggs Iniative was feated, laws prohibg the promotn of homosexualy or rtrictg discsns of homosexualy schools were enacted by state legislatur the late 1980s and 1990s.
Laws that rtrict classroom stctn this manner—or “no promo homo” laws—rema on the books Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carola, Texas, and Utah. The provisns Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas refer to homosexualy as a crimal offense unr state law, ignorg that the Supreme Court emed those crimal laws unnstutnal 2003. Alabama state law dictat that “[c]ourse materials and stctn that relate to sexual tn or sexually transmted diseas should clu all of the followg elements … [a]n emphasis, a factual manner and om a public health perspective, that homosexualy is not a liftyle acceptable to the general public and that homosexual nduct is a crimal offense unr the laws of the state.