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Thursday, October 09
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Source: Chicago Sun Times , Chicago Tribune Gay and lesbian historical figures -- from James Baldwin to Gertrude Stein -- would be woven into the curriculum of a new gay-friendly school that garnered official support Wednesday from Chicago Public Schools. Related in Qnews : Packed house enthusiastic about gay friendly school in Chicago 19-Sep-08 The Pride Campus of Social Justice High School, designed as the city's first school for LGBT teenagers, would be open to all students citywide but would provide a safe, "gay-friendly'' atmosphere to combat the high bullying, dropout and...
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Wednesday, September 24
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Source: Vancouver Sun , CBC News , News 1130 radio Vancouver -- Two gay activists accused the BC government on Tuesday of reneging on a deal it signed two years ago to make school curriculum more inclusive, especially for LGBT students. But Murray and Peter Corren held off preparing a complaint to the BC Human Rights Tribunal after an education ministry employee called and proposed a meeting later this week, Vancouver Sun reports. Murray Corren said he and his spouse were upset about the failure of the education ministry to distribute to all schools a new guide for teachers intended to help...
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Friday, September 19
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Source: Chi-Town Daily News , Chicago Tribune Chicago -- More than 200 people packed a North Side meeting room last night to voice their mostly positive opinions on a proposed public high school catering to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students. The proposed Pride Campus would be an extension of the Greater Lawndale Little Village School for Social Justice. It would offer a college-preparatory curriculum in which students would take four years each of English and math, three years each of foreign languages and science, as well as fine arts and physical education, administrators said...
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Saturday, September 06
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:: The American Civil Liberties Union reported donating $1.2 million to defeat Proposition 8 , the California ban on marriage equality , on the November ballot. Sacramento Bee reports that it's the single largest check written to the campaign, though Equality California, a gay-rights group, and the Human Rights Campaign, a similar group, have bundled more total donations. :: Their neighbors to the south rejected an ad campaign that proclaimed "South Carolina is so gay" but several communities in North Carolina's Triangle are trying to attract...
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Friday, August 29
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Source: Dominion Post , GayNZ.com Some New Zealand students are being prevented from taking same-sex partners to school balls unless they sign contracts confirming they are homosexual, says Rainbow Youth, an LGBT peer support group. Serafin Dillon, education officer for Rainbow Youth, said she knows of four Auckland colleges that do not allow same-gender ball partners unless pupils sign contracts stating their sexual orientation. "If this was in the workplace it would be discrimination and it would be unheard of. But because it's a school they think they can somehow get away with it."...
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Friday, August 29
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Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune , Jurist For the second time in two years, the U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled against Osseo Area Schools in its efforts to keep a student-run gay rights group from having the same privileges as other clubs. Friday's ruling affirmed a September 2007 decision by U.S. District Judge Joan Ericksen, who ruled that Straights and Gays for Equality (SAGE) should be on equal footing with other student groups at Maple Grove High School. Related in Qnews : Students who filed lawsuit for gay-straight group talk about its goals Two students belonging to SAGE sued the school...
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Thursday, August 28
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Source: SnoValley Star Hutch: Qblog , Qnews Snoqualmie, Wash. -- The Mount Si High School teacher who sparked a town controversy by asking a question of right-wing preacher Ken Hutcherson during a school assembly is leaving the school in Snoqualmie. Related in seaQwa : Mount Si tolerance controversy Kit McCormick accepted a position at Seattle School District's Garfield High School in July, SnoValley Star reports. McCormick told the Star that a conservative parent-founded group, Coalition to Defend Education (CODE), influenced her decision to leave. She described the group as a "closed...
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Tuesday, August 26
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Source: Manly Daily A teacher at an exclusive private school in the pricey seaside Sydney suburb of Manly resigned after students found a profile he had posted on a gay hookup service. How did the students find the profile? The Manly Daily (of course) reports that while his computer screen was being projected for his students to see, the teacher used what students thought was an "odd" username to get onto an educational website. The students then searched for the username on Google and turned up a link to the teacher's profile on a gay hookup website. The profile included nude...
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Tuesday, August 19
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Source: Oregon Daily Emerald Eugene, Ore. -- A group of law students focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender legal issues at the University of Oregon will offer law students the first ever diversity-based moot court competition on campus this year, along with a host of other services. Members of the group Outlaws are organizing the competition, where students will submit legal briefs, present oral arguments and have a chance to advance to a national competition in Los Angeles, Oregon Daily Emerald reports. A proposal for student-government funding of the project explained that Outlaws...
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Wednesday, July 30
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Source: TCPalm.com , ACLU press release FL anti-gay schools OKEECHOBEE, Fla -- In a move the American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday called "groundbreaking," a federal judge has ruled in favor of students who claimed the school board in this rural district discriminated against them by opposing their gay tolerance club. The Gay-Straight Alliance of Okeechobee High School may now meet on campus like all other non-curricular school groups, and their case against the School Board of Okeechobee County is closed, U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore wrote in an opinion signed Tuesday....
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Monday, July 28
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Source: Walton Sun , Fort Mills Times FL anti-gay schools PONCE DE LEON, Fla -- A panhandle high-school principal led a "relentless crusade" against homosexuality at Ponce de Leon High School, a federal judge said in court documents filed Thursday. The judge's $325,000 against the school board was announced in May the court's full opinion was not released until last week. The judge's ruling thrashed Principal David Davis, who has since been replaced as principal. "Davis embarked on what can only be characterized as a witch hunt," wrote U.S. District Judge Richard...
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Saturday, July 19
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Source: North County Times , Lambda Legal press release SAN DIEGO -- Three years after a jury awarded a pair of gay students $300,000 for harassment by their Poway High School classmates, school district attorneys were in court Friday asking a three-judge panel to overturn the verdict. The students who brought the suit were also on hand to watch as their attorneys argued that the jury's findings were proper. One of the issues before the state 4th District Court of Appeal, California's mid-level court, is whether the jury was given proper instructions before it decided in favor of Joseph...
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Thursday, June 19
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Source: Grand Rapids Press , WOOD-TV , Grand Rapids Press WAYLAND, Mich. -- Two high-school girls who beat up another girl, reportedly because she advocated for LGBT rights in the school, will face assault charges in juvenile court, Grand Rapids Press reports. But they won't face enhanced penalties for what police say was a bias-motivated crime because Michigan's hate crimes law doesn't include sexual orientation. As Wayland Union High School students cleaned out their lockers after the last day of school on Tuesday June 10, a fight between three freshmen girls erupted while another...
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Wednesday, June 11
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Source: Fort Meyers News-Press , WINK-TV , PrideSource.com Tallahassee, Fla. -- Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday signed the "Jeffrey Johnston Stand Up For All Students Act" into law. Jeffrey Johnston was 15 in June 2005, just having finished his ninth-grade year at Ida S. Baker High in Cape Coral, when he killed himself. He would have graduated with his classmates who just received their diplomas June 1 at Harborside Event Center. Jeff's mother, Debbie, led the crusade for Jeff's law. "I worried about kidnappers, and murderers, and drugs, and alcohol, and gangs and all those...
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Thursday, May 29
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Source: Capital Times , Associated Press via Chicago Tribune Madison, Wis. -- Back in 1994, Carolyn "Biddy" Martin was part of a Cornell University committee that was in charge of drafting a policy to make health insurance and other benefits available to same-sex partners. At the time, Cornell was joining a growing number of universities and businesses that were recognizing benefits equality for gay and lesbian couples. Flash-forward 14 years, and Martin now finds herself days away from being appointed the next chancellor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, which still doesn't provide...
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Wednesday, May 28
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Source: Clovis News Journal , Clovis News Journal , KOB-TV , Associated Press via News9West CLOVIS, N.M.-- Administrators of the school district here promise to give students at the local high school a lesson in official censorship next year. They say administrators will exert greater control over next year's high school yearbook after student editors of the publication included photographs of two lesbian couples in this year's edition. The pictures that caused the big stir show two lesbian couples along with nine straight couples in a feature on relationships. Student editor in chief Maggie...
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Thursday, May 22
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Source: The State (Columbia) , WACH-TV , WDEF-TV , Miami Herald blog , Columbia, SC -- The principal of a high school here says that he'll resign next year rather than oversee a school where students are allowed to form a Gay/Straight Alliance (GSA) club. Eddie Walker, lead administrator at Irmo High School, announced his resignation to students and faculty Wednesday after the school board explained to him that he must allow a GSA group to form on campus. School board members say it's an all or nothing situation. Either you allow non-curricular clubs, or you don't. Since there are many...
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Tuesday, May 13
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Source: Northwest Florida Daily News , WMBB-TV FL anti-gay schools PANAMA CITY -- Saying "the core message here is of tolerance and fairness," a judge ruled today Heather Gillman can wear a t-shirt with pro-gay messages. U.S. District Judge Richard Smoak decided Tuesday the Holmes County School Board violated Heather Gillman’s right to free speech in November and ordered the board to alert students in writing that they are allowed to express their support for the equal treatment of gays in an appropriate and non-disruptive way. Gillman’s shirts included the slogans, “Gay? Fine by me,...
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Tuesday, May 06
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Source: WLMT-TV ABC24 , WMC-TV , AP via Tenneseean , NBC News via WCSH Memphis, TN - At Monday night's Memphis School Board meeting, a small but vocal group of parents and community members gathered in the back of the auditorium waiting to speak their minds about a high school principal who outed two gay students at her school. "I'm disgusted," Memphis parent Natasha Burnett told WLMT's Eyewitness News Everywhere . "I'm disgusted by it." A letter from the American Civil Liberties Union that was made public last week accuses the principal of Hollis F. Price Middle...
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Monday, May 05
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Source: WLMT-TV ABC24 Memphis, TN -- One of the gay honor students allegedly outed against his will by his high-school principal told WLMT TV that he thinks the principal, Daphne Beasley, should get some education of her own. The ACLU says Beasley made a list of couples in her school so she could cut down on inappropriate displays of public affection on the college campus where the high school is located. On the list that was visible to anyone entering Beasley's office were Nicholas and Andrew, two young men who had recently started dating. Nicholas, who says getting an apology is the most...
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Friday, May 02
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Source: Eyewitness News, Memphis Memphis City Schools is defending a high school principal who was charged by the ACLU with violating the rights of two gay students whose names were posted to a list of student couples. In a letter released yesterday, the school district says that the at Hollis F. Price Middle College principal, Daphne Beasley, acted properly in compiling the list and notifying parents. The letter says that Beasley's list of "children she knew to be involved romantically" was appropriate because "such behavior" is a violation of school conduct codes. In a...
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Wednesday, April 30
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Source: Boston Globe , PhysOrg.com Saying that being bullied can leave a mark on a child for life, state public health officials today released a comprehensive guide to prevent bullying in the state's schools. "Our kids deserve to grow up in an environment that is free from harassment and violence," Department of Public Health Commissioner Jon Auerbach said in a statement. "Bullying is not an inevitable part of growing up and we need to do more to stop it." In 2005, nearly one in four Massachusetts middle or high school students surveyed reported being bullied, health officials...
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Tuesday, April 29
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Source: WPTY TV , ACLU press release MEMPHIS, TN -- A Memphis high school principal who "outed" two gay high school students in September 2007 violated the students' constitutional right to freedom of association, the American Civil Liberties Union charged today. The ACLU said Daphne Beasley, the principal of Hollis F. Price Middle College High School, publicly told teachers and staff over the school's intercom system that she wanted the names of all student couples, "hetero and homo," because she wanted to monitor them personally to prevent students from engaging in...
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Tuesday, April 29
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Source: Sarasota Herald Tribune , News-Press Tallahassee -- Instead of celebrating her son's 26th birthday yesterday, Pat Mulder was at the state capitol urging lawmakers to pass a bill that she hopes will help prevent another mother from suffering the pain she feels every day. "Last year I was in way too much pain to do anything like this," she said after testifying at a hearing for a tough new anti-bullying law. "The pain is still there but the motivation to make a difference is so much stronger." Mulder's son Ryan Skipper, who was openly gay, was killed last year...
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Sunday, April 27
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Source: Orlando Sentinel , News-Press , CBS News The parents of Ryan Keith Skipper, the victim of a gay-hate-crime murder in Polk County, will mark what would have been his 27th birthday Monday by joining others in support of anti-bullying legislation in Tallahassee. The Florida State Senate is one vote away from passing a bill designed to protect children who are picked on, legislative aides say. The measure's supporters say it would be the toughest law of its type in the nation. It would shift some focus to prevention, and require schools to take disciplinary action to stop physical or verbal...
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Saturday, April 26
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Source: Providence Journal , Arizona Republic , Rochester Democrat and Chronicle , Modesto Bee , Seattle Times , Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum The school's namesake peak overlooks the entrance to Mount Si High in Snoqualmie, WA. Only about 100 anti-gay demonstrators showed up at the school Friday, despite a month of promotion of the demonstration by national anti-gay groups. seaQwa photo: Robin Evans Throughout the country yesterday, tens of thousands of students at thousands of schools quietly observed a day dedicated to tolerance and respect. A few of the students who participated in yesterday's...
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Friday, April 25
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Source: Seattle Times , KIRO Newsradio Seattle Times catches up with the controversy that a Redmond pastor has worked to create at Mount Si High School in Snoqualmie by interviewing former student Neil Lequia. As a gay-rights activist, he's helping to organize a news conference in support of students participating in the national Day of Silence, an event meant to highlight the silence gay students say they often must maintain at school, the Times reports. As a gay teenager growing up in the Snoqualmie Valley, he remembers "the bullies," popular, athletic boys vamping in the hall and...
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Thursday, April 24
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Source: Qblog , Snoqualmie Valley Record Hutch: Qblog , Qnews As some parents prepare to protest outside Mount Si High School on the Day of Silence, school administrators are assuring the community that the event, scheduled for Friday, April 25, will not endanger the school's learning environment. School administrators have said the Day of Silence falls within students' right to free speech, and learning will not be interrupted. According to the event website, the National Day of Silence , to be observed tomorrow at Mount Si and thousands of other schools around the country, " brings...
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Thursday, April 24
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Source: Naperville Sun The third time was the charm for a Neuqua Valley High School student who wants to express his sentiments on homosexuality by wearing a “Be Happy, Not Gay” T-shirt to class. Neuqua sophomore Alex Nuxoll had twice filed for an injunction that would suspend what his anti-gay activist lawyers claimed is “the school’s policy that allows speech in favor of homosexual conduct, but bans speech critical of homosexual conduct.” And twice courts had denied that request. But on Wednesday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit reversed the lower courts’ rulings against Nuxoll,...
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Thursday, April 24
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Source: Grand Rapids Press , WOOD TV , WZZM TV , Between the Lines GRAND RAPIDS, Mich -- Aquinas College said no, but gay-rights activist John Corvino came to Grand Rapids anyway. A group of students arranged for him to speak at a Grand Rapids church Wednesday night after the college canceled his on-campus appearance because it ran against core Catholic values. Qnews background: Catholic college named after philosopher cancels speech by philosopher Corvino says he is grateful students found another location for him to speak. "When I saw how determined these students were to have a voice in...
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