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Arkansas school board official Clint McCance bashes 'queers' on Spirit Day
An Arkansas school board member took the opportunity on Spirit Day to bash "queers" and recommend that all gay people commit suicide.
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Hundreds of Ohio high school students caught on YouTube chanting 'f----ts'
Hundreds of students at a high school in Ohio were caught in a YouTube video chanting "Powder Blue F----ts" at an opposing football team last Thursday night.
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Governor of Michigan calls for anti-gay assistant AG to be fired
On Thursday, the Governor of Michigan called for the state's Attorney General to fire Andrew Shirvell, an assistant who has been on an internet vendetta against gay University of Michigan student body President Chris Arm
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Conservative group: 'Anti-bullying' agenda is actually pro-gay
The conservative "Focus on the Family" group feels they're being bullied; bullied, that is, by anti-bullying curriculum pushed at public schools. They claim these life lessons are really pro-gay lessons in disguise.
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Judge rules that university can require counseling students to learn about gay issues
A federal judge has ruled that Augusta State University can require graduate counseling students to learn about gay issues.
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19 colleges get 5-star LGBT ratings
A group promoting the rights of LGBT college students has just released its latest survey of the safest and most welcoming college campuses in the country.
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Cook County: school superintendent was fired because he's gay
A school district in south suburban Midlothian fired a superintendent because he is gay, the Cook County Human Rights Commission ruled.
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School board proposal: teach first graders about gay sex
Parents in Helena, Montana are fighting with the school board and each other over how sex and homosexuality should be handled in the new health curriculum.
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University of Illinois faculty to review firing of Catholic anti-gay professor
Faculty members at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will evaluate whether the school did the right thing when it fired a Catholic teacher who said he was opposed to homosexuality.
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Conservatives gear up for nasty fight against LGBT worker rights bill
On Capitol Hill this week, supporters of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) are counting heads in the House to see if they can get this landmark anti-discrimination bill passed. And on the other side, conservat
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Catholic school rejects boy because he has two mommies
The Archdiocese of Boston is investigating a small parish school in Hingham, Mass., after the school accepted -- and then rejected -- an 8-year-old student after learning his parents are lesbians.
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Marquette students organize online in support of lesbian Dean candidate
A thousand people have joined a Facebook Facebook page in support of a lesbian sociologist who was offered a job at Marquette University in Milwaukee, only to see it yanked away.
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Marquette rescinds offer to lesbian sociologist
Marquette University in Milwaukee has rescinded a job offer made to a sociologist who is a lesbian.
