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University of Nebraska football running coach Ron Brown is not backing down from comments he made opposing an LGBT non-discrimination ordinance in Omaha.
A gay student at Illinois State University said he was attacked this weekend by a group of African-Americans who used gay slurs.
The University of Texas at Austin will soon start putting transgender students' preferred names on all official school documents, including medical records.
An assistant principal in Fullerton, Calif., is in trouble after he hauled a student off a stage for mentioning gay marriage.
A student named Maverick Couch is suing his school in Ohio because the principal won't let him wear a shirt that says "Jesus was not a Homophobe."
The Illinois House Wednesday narrowly passed new anti-bullying legislation for schools. The measure sponsored by state Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) passed by 61 votes and now moves to the Illinois Senate.
Students and allied adults from across the country convene in Washington, D.C. for GLSEN's 2012 Safe Schools Advocacy Summit.
Jurors in the Rutgers University gay webcam case ended their first day of deliberations without a verdict on Wednesday.
Gay porn director and actor Shawn Loftis, aka Collin O'Neal, can once again pursue a career in teaching, Florida's Education Practices Commission has ruled.
The mystery man who was with Rutgers student Tyler Clementi when Clementi's roommate, Dharun Ravi, used a webcam to spy on him, testified on Friday.
Lady Gaga will arrive at Harvard on Wednesday, to announce the creation of her "Born This Way" foundation and also to push the school to posthumously award degrees to gay students who were kicked out in 1920.
Rutgers student Dharun Ravi was actually worried about his gay roommate Tyler Clementi's safety, defense attorneys argued on Friday, and that's why Ravi used a webcam to spy while he kissed an older man.
Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, 19, goes on trial this week for invading the privacy of his gay roommate, Tyler Clementi, who eventually committed suicide.
The conservative Christian group "Advance America" is trying to get the State of Indiana to dump a license plate that benefits a gay youth organization.
Lesbians Megan Edwards and Katie MacTurk have won a Valentine's Facebook contest at St. Joseph's (Catholic) University in Philadelphia, after initially being booted out.
St. Joseph's Catholic University's attempt to exclude a lesbian couple from their romantic "How I Met My Hawk Mate" contest has backfired, with the women garnering even more votes than they would have otherwise.
A Girl Scout from California is pushing for everyone to boycott Girl Scout cookies, because the girls' group allows transgender kids to join.
Shawano (Wisconsin) School District officials are apologizing after the high school's newspaper, "Hawk Post," ran an editorial which called homosexuality a "detestable act" and gay adoptive parents an "abomination."
The family of Robert Champion, Jr., the Florida A&M (FAMU) drum major who died after being beaten in a hazing ritual, said they've learned he was gay -- but do not believe the beating death was a hate crime.
