California Gov. Gav Newsom followed through on threats to fe a school district for refg to adopt state-approved curriculum that featured gay rights activist Harvey Milk.
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- PEACEFUL PROTT AGAST ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL TURNS VLENT AT DAVIE HIGH SCHOOL
- PARENTS WHO SAY GAY SON WAS BULLIED AT EVERETT SCHOOL FILE $20M CLAIM
- GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
- THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
PEACEFUL PROTT AGAST ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL TURNS VLENT AT DAVIE HIGH SCHOOL
Gov. Gav Newsom is takg on nservative Temecula Valley Unified school officials over textbooks that discs sla gay activist Harvey Milk. * gay fights in school *
Democratic policians across California nmned a volatile anti-gay prott outsi a suburban Los Angel school board meetg on Tuday, as the school board heard public ment on whether to officially signate June as LGBTQ+ Pri month. 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.
PARENTS WHO SAY GAY SON WAS BULLIED AT EVERETT SCHOOL FILE $20M CLAIM
* gay fights in school *
”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.
GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
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. ”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978.
” 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.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy. Several of the protters chanted antigay slurs at the LGBTQ+ supporters, and one marcher threw water at a unterprotter and pulled off a wig.
”The group, however, had set s sights on Friday’s Gay Pri and Rabow Day assembly and urged other parents to keep their children home that day. “They need to talk to actual gay people and 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. On Tuday, for the first time s four- history, Ameri’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer civil rights anizatn clared a natnal state of emergency for members of the LGBTQ+ muny.
THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
“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. A stunt sent Lol 10 News cellphone vio of a fight breakg out the parkg lot of Wtern High ’re told happened while stunts were stagg a walk-out Friday afternoon prott of the recent passage of the so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill Tallahassee.
Crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay Bill” bee of s language a particular paragraph, which specifi sexual and genr inty may not be lsons K through third gras. “The District is aware that some stunts planned a peaceful, stunt-led prott regardg recent actns Tallahassee for what’s referred to as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill. 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.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
Summg up that experience, he said: “I’m known the school, and I’m gay, and that mak me an immediate target. 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.