What's Life Like For Gay Kids In Public Schools? : NPR

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High school is a challengg time for most teens. It n be even more so for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr stunts. Judy Chiasson of the Los Angel Unified School District and Eliza Byard, executive director of the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network talk about beg openly LGBT school.

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

Gov. Gav Newsom is takg on nservative Temecula Valley Unified school officials over textbooks that discs sla gay activist Harvey Milk. * gay students in high school *

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.

WHAT'S LIFE LIKE FOR GAY KIDS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

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”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.

” 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. 2 percent as gay or lbian and 1.

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. Yet even s where parental nsent has been received and official documentatn submted, teachers and fellow stunts are permted to misgenr trans-intifyg stunts, and will not be discipled for such actns — even if they rise to the level of bullyg or harassment, which the guil purport to prohib — on the grounds of ee speech or relig objectns to homosexualy or genr-nonnformy. “We are too smart and kd to fall for this effort to stoke fear, homophobia, and transphobia while imposg logistil and legal chaos on all Commonwealth public schools, ” the anizatn, which CPS Pri advot on behalf of LGBTQ stunts and staff Fairfax County, ntued.

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Gay unselor's firg at Indiana Catholic school OK'd by urt .

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