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Catholic lesbian parents speak out about preschool

We've written about the two small kids who were kicked out of a Catholic school by the Archbishop of Denver because their parents are lesbians. Now the parents are speaking out in their own words. Here's a statement from the parents released anonymously through Boulder Pride; it's long, but worth reading. The following ...
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Lesbian student sues over cancelled prom

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit over a prom which was cancelled because of a lesbian student. Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old student at Itawamba Agricultural High School, was barred from attending the event in a tuxedo and with her girlfriend.

The Broadcaster: Don't Ask, Don't Tell trivializes, threatens civil rights ... - my.hsj.org

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The Broadcaster: Don't Ask, Don't Tell trivializes, threatens civil rights ...
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... don't tell” policy is only one of many antiquated laws that prevent lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from receiving civil rights that are ...
GORDON DUFF: RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA, AN UNAMERICAN CITY OF NOTEVeterans Today Network

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Published in Print: March 17, 2010, as Safe-Schools Chief Raises DC Profile - Education Week News

Published in Print: March 17, 2010, as Safe-Schools Chief Raises DC Profile
Education Week News
In the interview afterward, he said that students know the outcome of the civil rights movement, but that the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, ...

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Gay-straight group forms at South Lafourche - Daily Comet

Gay-straight group forms at South Lafourche
Daily Comet
THIBODAUX — About 30 students at South Lafourche High participated in the first meeting of the school's Gay-Straight Alliance earlier this ...

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Constance to Party With Perez

Constance McMillen, the Mississippi high school student whose prom was canceled because she wanted to bring her girlfriend as a date, will attend a birthday bash for blogger Perez Hilton in Los Angeles.
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Colorado Springs Wins National Diversity Award - KKTV 11 News

Colorado Springs Wins National Diversity Award
KKTV 11 News
She is part of the Gay Straight Alliance Club at her school. She and Andrea Bryant, whose husband is African-American, hope this award will help bring even ...

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Gay seniors come out late, start second lifetime

Increased awareness and acceptance of varied sexualities and gender identities has led Americans to come out far younger, as early as middle school. A less noticed but parallel shift is happening at the other end of the age spectrum, with people in their 60s, 70s and 80s coming to terms with the truth that they are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
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Lawsuit: NYC Teacher Forced Straight Boy to Claim He Was Gay

A New York City teacher is cited in two lawsuits against a New York charter school--in one case, for allegedly forcing a 9-year-old male student to tell a girl he liked that he was gay, even though the boy was straight.
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Canceled Miss. Prom Brings Attention to Student Protection Bill

A lesbian student saw her school district cancel prom for everyone rather than let her bring the date of her own choosing. The choice has generated headlines--and brought attention to a bill that would offer federal protections to LGBT youth.
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The Downside to Facebook - EDGE Boston

The Downside to Facebook
EDGE Boston
A vocal and highly visible activist, Honicker as a freshman formed a Gay-Straight Alliance, the first in a high school in his county. ...

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Are these gay teens legally in the right? - Jackson Clarion Ledger

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Are these gay teens legally in the right?
Jackson Clarion Ledger
Constance McMillen and Ceara Sturgis are forcing school districts to face new realities that many are unprepared to handle: The issue of gay rights. ...
Constance McMillen: School bans prom after lesbian student asks to take ...Daily Mail
How lesbians "ruined" promSalon
Prom offers flood in for Mississippi studentsUSA Today
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Tolerance increasing in Poconos - Pocono Record

Tolerance increasing in Poconos
Pocono Record
... Steven Barthold-Rivera, faculty co-sponsor of the Stroudsburg High School Gay Straight Alliance. The alliance is one of several in local high schools. ...

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Canceled Mississippi prom brings new attention to Polis's bill - Fox 31 KDVR.com

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Canceled Mississippi prom brings new attention to Polis's bill
Fox 31 KDVR.com
While Federal civil rights statutes expressly address discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, disability or national origin, ...
Constance McMillen: School bans prom after lesbian student asks to take ...Daily Mail
Are these gay teens legally in the right?Jackson Clarion Ledger
How lesbians "ruined" promSalon
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Mississippi School Cancels Prom Rather Than Let Lesbian Teens Attend - AlterNet (blog)

Mississippi School Cancels Prom Rather Than Let Lesbian Teens Attend
AlterNet (blog)
This issue first entered the courts back in 1980, when a school in Rhode Island told a gay teen named Aaron Fricke that he could not bring a male date to ...

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The Nose Cutters - Firedoglake (blog)

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The Nose Cutters
Firedoglake (blog)
As Teddy pointed out to me, this is not an entirely new trend: In order to keep the East High Gay-Straight Alliance from meeting, the school board ...
Lesbian teen back at Miss. school after prom flapThe Associated Press

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Bronx teacher accused of bullying

A Bronx teacher is accused of bullying children in his classroom at South Bronx Charter School. In court papers filed this week, Jared Alessandroni is accused of threatening to out a straight 9-year-old in his classroom. The boy was forced to write a note to his crush, a girl, saying he ...
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Big Gay News for Friday, Mar 12 2010

Today’s Top Headlines First Gay Marriages in Mexico City ACLU Sues After School Cancels Prom Over Lesbian Student GLAAD Alleges Johnny Weir Deemed Too Gay For Stars On Ice Get even MORE...
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Watch Your Back, Robert Pattinson - Former Teen Idols That Toppled - QS (blog)

Sydney Morning Herald
Watch Your Back, Robert Pattinson - Former Teen Idols That Toppled
QS (blog)
Like many good-looking teen idols, JTT got the "he's gay" wishful thinking rumor mill spinning. He handled the issue politely, not to mention playing gay ...
Knight at the Movies: Remember Me; Red Riding trilogy; film notesWindy City Times
Romantic cliches abound in 'Remember Me'St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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US teacher accused of threatening to 'out' straight pupil

A New York teacher has been accused of threatening to 'out' a straight nine-year-old boy. Jared Alessandroni, 29, a teacher at the South Bronx Charter School, allegedly told the pupil he would tell the class he was gay.

Tiger Woods Left Mississippi Too Soon - CBS News

Washington Post
Tiger Woods Left Mississippi Too Soon
CBS News
All she did was stand up for her civil rights. The school board could have had the prom and excluded her and her date. They did not have to cancel it for ...
Prom offers flood in for Mississippi studentsUSA Today
How lesbians "ruined" promSalon
Atheist group offers to hold gay friendly promExaminer.com
Creative Loafing (blog) -Tonic -ABC News
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Sign petition for Miss. lesbian student barred from prom

Change.org started an online petition Friday in support of a Mississippi teen who sought to go to prom with her girlfriend. School board members decided to cancel prom instead of allow the lesbian student to attend with a same-sex date. On Thursday, the American Civil Liberties union, on behalf of ...
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What happened to teen movies?! - California Literary Review

California Literary Review
What happened to teen movies?!
California Literary Review
And is there a teenager out there who doesn't long for Ferris Bueller's version of playing hooky? Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Truancy has never been so much ...

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Burlington High's David Murray heads to state poetry finals - Boston Globe

Boston Globe
Burlington High's David Murray heads to state poetry finals
Boston Globe
He is also a member of Spectrum, the high school's Gay-Straight Alliance, and the Drama and Poetry Clubs. Last fall, Murray co-founded a school improv group ...

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Hotel Owner Offers to Host Canceled Prom

Sean Cummings, a New Orleans hotel owner, has offered to host the prom for Mississippi high school students after theirs was canceled after a lesbian student asked to wear a tux and take her girlfriend.
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ACLU Sues After School Cancels Prom Over Lesbian Student

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is seeking a court order to force a Mississippi high school to hold its senior prom. On Wednesday, school officials cancelled the event after a female...
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Lesbian teen sues to force school to hold prom

(Jackson, Miss.) A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it canceled. The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi on Thursday filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Oxford on ...
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Bates College student, Outright L/A receive justice and peace award - Bates Magazine

Bates Magazine
Bates College student, Outright L/A receive justice and peace award
Bates Magazine
... the organization provides social, cultural and educational events that include weekly drop-ins, gay-straight alliance projects at local high schools, ...

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Lesbian Teen Speaks Out on Cancelled Prom - CBS News

Globe and Mail
Lesbian Teen Speaks Out on Cancelled Prom
CBS News
I am an African-American who is not gay and feel that at times many try to equate your struggle like those in the civil rights movement, but those in this ...
Prom offers flood in for Mississippi studentsUSA Today
How lesbians "ruined" promSalon
Atheist group offers to hold gay friendly promExaminer.com
Creative Loafing (blog) -NY Breaking News.com -Tonic
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Lesbian Teen Speaks Out on Cancelled Prom - CBS News

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Lesbian Teen Speaks Out on Cancelled Prom
CBS News
This young lady choose to bring her sexuality up front and make a spectacle out of it. I find many pro gay articles just as bigoted. ...
Gay Teen Files Lawsuit Over Canceled PromABC News
Constance McMillen: School bans prom after lesbian student asks to take ...Daily Mail
Lesbian Teen Sues School For Canceling PromIndyPosted (blog)
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Lesbian Teen Talks About Prom Battle

Lesbian teen Constance McMillen spoke with CBS News about her fight against her high school, which canceled its prom rather than allow her to attend with her girlfriend.
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Lesbian teen sues to force school to hold prom - The Associated Press

Sydney Morning Herald
Lesbian teen sues to force school to hold prom
The Associated Press
"A lot of schools actually react rather than do the research and find out what the rights of these students are," said Presgraves. In 2002, a gay student ...
Gay Teen Files Lawsuit Over Canceled PromABC News
Lesbian Teen Sues School For Canceling PromIndyPosted (blog)
Lesbian's lesbianness forces school to cancel prom, funTrue/Slant
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Constance McMillen: School bans prom after lesbian student asks to take ... - Daily Mail

Globe and Mail
Constance McMillen: School bans prom after lesbian student asks to take ...
Daily Mail
Civil rights activists also claimed the school violated the student's free expression rights by banning her from dressing in a man's suit. ...
How lesbians "ruined" promSalon
Prom offers flood in for Mississippi studentsUSA Today
Atheist group offers to hold gay friendly promExaminer.com
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Lesbian teen sues to force school to hold prom

A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it canceled rather than let the couple attend.
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Lesbian teen sues over prom flap; back at school - Fresno Bee

Fresno Bee
Lesbian teen sues over prom flap; back at school
Fresno Bee
Same-sex prom dates and cross-dressing are new issues for many high schools around the country, said Daryl Presgraves, a spokesman for GLSEN: Gay, ...

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Update! Lesbian Teen Stands Her Ground Despite School Board Revoking Prom!! - PerezHilton.com (blog)

PerezHilton.com (blog)
Update! Lesbian Teen Stands Her Ground Despite School Board Revoking Prom!!
PerezHilton.com (blog)
We know how hard this must be for you, but by holding your head up high and not backing down, you are no doubt inspiring TONS of gay kids everywhere to ...

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How lesbians "ruined" prom - Salon

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How lesbians "ruined" prom
Salon
And I think we all know how those people can be about demanding that institutions abide by the law and respect people's civil rights. ...
Atheist group offers to hold gay friendly promExaminer.com
Anti-gay prom bias wins the prizeCreative Loafing (blog)
Gay Teen in the spotlight after denied Prom DateNY Breaking News.com
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Lesbian teen back at Miss. school after prom flap - The Associated Press

Lesbian teen back at Miss. school after prom flap
The Associated Press
Presgraves said his organization hears about school districts that prohibit same-sex prom dates and gay-straight alliance clubs at schools. ...

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Lesbian teen back at Miss. school after prom flap - The Associated Press

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Lesbian teen back at Miss. school after prom flap
The Associated Press
Same-sex prom dates and cross-dressing are new issues for many high schools around the country, said Daryl Presgraves, a spokesman for GLSEN: Gay, ...
Gay Teen Files Lawsuit Over Canceled PromABC News
Lesbian Teen Sues School For Canceling PromIndyPosted (blog)
Lesbian's lesbianness forces school to cancel prom, funTrue/Slant
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Gay Teen Files Lawsuit Over Canceled Prom - ABC News

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Gay Teen Files Lawsuit Over Canceled Prom
ABC News
She was told, according to the lawsuit, that the pair would have to arrive separately and could be thrown out "if any of the other students complained about ...
Lesbian Teen Sues School For Canceling PromIndyPosted (blog)
Lesbian's lesbianness forces school to cancel prom, funTrue/Slant
Mississippi school board cancels prom over lesbian and her dateNational Post (blog)
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Gay Teen Files Lawsuit Over Canceled Prom - ABC News

ABC News
Gay Teen Files Lawsuit Over Canceled Prom
ABC News
On Wednesday, after the American Civil Liberties Union told the school board that banning same-sex dates violated the students' rights, the district ...
Lesbian teen back at Miss. school after prom flapThe Associated Press
Miss. prom canceled after lesbian's date requestUSA Today
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HRC: Virgina governor gives lip service in LGBT directive - San Diego Gay & Lesbian News

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HRC: Virgina governor gives lip service in LGBT directive
San Diego Gay & Lesbian News
The Human Rights Campaign is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. ...
The Cuccinelli AwakeningFalls Church News Press
New discrimination prohibitions include sexual orientationAugusta Free Press
Va. gov counters state atty. gen.'s advice on gaysSacramento Bee
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Lesbian teen back at Miss. school after prom flap - Forbes

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Lesbian teen back at Miss. school after prom flap
Forbes
"I am a little bummed out about it. I guess it's a decision that had to be made. Either way someone was going to get disappointed - either Constance was or ...
Lesbian's lesbianness forces school to cancel prom, funTrue/Slant
Mississippi school board cancels prom over lesbian and her dateNational Post (blog)
Mississippi high school cancels prom instead of letting lesbian teen bring dateNew York Daily News

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ACLU Sues School to Reinstate Prom

The American Civil Liberties Union will sue a Mississippi high school after it canceled its prom this year rather than let a lesbian student bring her girlfriend as a date.
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Gay and Catholic: Questions of Identity - Opposing Views

Opposing Views
Gay and Catholic: Questions of Identity
Opposing Views
At the same time, I was fighting for a gay-straight alliance at my high school. During the process of forming the GSA, a parent of a child at my parish ...

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Teens and parents get bullying advice - Queens Chronicle

Teens and parents get bullying advice
Queens Chronicle
The tormentor then used that information against him, spreading a rumor that Ryan was gay. For the majority of seventh grade and beginning of eighth grade, ...

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Mississippi Prom Canceled Over Lesbian Student

A Mississippi county school board announced Wednesday it would cancel its upcoming prom after a gay student petitioned to bring a same-sex date to the event. “Due to the distractions to the...
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