|
|
|
Ignite: GLBTQ youth news
Schools Ban Gay-Safe-Zone Signs
2003-01-22
|
|
This article shared 3219 times since Wed Jan 22, 2003
|
|
As reported in the Chicago Sun-Times, Rich Township High School in Olympia Fields, Ill., after pressure from a few parents, voted Jan. 13 to remove multicolored triangles signifying safe zones for gay and lesbian students from more than 100 classrooms doors.
The district had been accused by some parents of promoting homosexuality and discriminating against students who are not gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender by allowing the triangles.
A language arts teacher at Rich East in Park Forest said, 'They [students] are very disappointed. I think one of the things to work through for a few kids is, does this mean they support is no longer there.' He said he is trying to convince his students that it is. He also said the 20 members of the GSA are selling pins with the triangle symbol, which 'then becomes a personal symbol.' |
 |
|
|
This article shared 3219 times since Wed Jan 22, 2003
|
| ARTICLES YOU MIGHT LIKE |
|---|
| 
|  | NATIONAL North Carolina, 'Pride Heroes,' school news, gay publication folds, Iowa 2023-06-02
Video below - The Campaign for Southern Equality (CSE) and Campus Pride released a report focused on the life, school, and health experiences of LGBTQ+ people in North Carolina. The report's release comes as the North Carolina General Assembly ...
| 
| | TaskForce Chicago's ED talks organization, AIDS stigma and queerness 2023-05-25
- Among the many organizations helping Chicago youths is TaskForce Prevention & Community Services. The West Side-based organization helps hundreds of youths by being committed to addressing the HIV/STI-related needs of ...
| 
| | San Francisco's Harvey Milk School celebrates birthday of its namesake 2023-05-23
- Students at the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy in San Francisco's LGBTQ Castro neighborhood took to the streets Monday, May 22, and marched on Harvey Milk Day. The day of special significance in California honors the ...
| 
| | Illinois middle-school teacher loses job for promoting 'This Book Is Gay' 2023-05-18
- Making This Book Is Gay available to her eighth-grade students resulted in Illinois teacher Sarah Bonner being reported to police—and eventually losing her job, according to an item from The Advocate. According to Today.com, Bonner (who ...
| 
| | NCLR, GLAD, Trevor Project, coalition of groups support Biden administration's proposed Title IX Athletics Rule 2023-05-17
--From a press release - WASHINGTON, DC — The National Center for Lesbian Rights, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), and The Trevor Project — along with the National Education Association and more than a dozen other organizations — have submitted ...
| 
| | One Roof Chicago hosts launch event 2023-05-17
- One Roof Chicago, an LGBTQ+ centered community for elders and youth, held their public kickoff event May 16 at the Hinshaw and Culbertson law firm. The brainchild of Pamela Calvert, One Roof seeks to build a ...
|
| | Texas House passes bill SB14 which would ban healthcare for transgender youth; GLAAD speaks 2023-05-15
--From a GLAAD press release - (New York, NY - May 15, 2023) - Today members of the Texas House of Representatives passed SB14 banning life-saving healthcare for transgender youth. The bill now heads back to the Senate for final approval before ...
| 
| | UIC's 'lavender' graduates step out into the world 2023-05-12
- On May 2, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) held its 17th annual Lavender Graduation Ceremony in front of a crowded room of queer graduates and their friends, allies and families. The event was held in ...
|
| | Louisiana House passes discriminatory education bill targeting LGBTQ+ youth, HRC responds 2023-05-08
--From an Human Rights Campaign press release - Baton Rouge, Louisiana — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, condemns the Louisiana House for passing HB ...
| 
| | Indiana governor signs anti-LGBTQ+ bill that focuses on students 2023-05-08
- Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a measure that will require schools to notify a parent if a student requests a name or pronoun change at school, according to ABC 7 Chicago. It was one of the ...
| 
| | Illinois to become first state to punish book-banning 2023-05-04
- Illinois is about to become the first state to punish public institutions that ban books. Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker has said he supports a House bill that would withhold state funding from any of the state's ...
|
| | GLAAD responds to wave of anti-LGBTQ bills passed by Florida legislature 2023-05-03
--From a press release - GLAAD: "Florida's extremist lawmakers are working overtime to make their state less free and outright dangerous for everyone, especially LGBTQ people, youth and families. They make every citizen and every visitor to Florida vulnerable to discriminator ...
|
| | Families, doctors challenge Oklahoma's ban on health care for trans youth 2023-05-03
--From a press release - OKLAHOMA CITY - Families, transgender adolescents, and their medical providers are challenging a new law criminalizing age-appropriate medical care for transgender adolescents signed by Governor Kevin Stitt yesterday. In a ...
| 
| | LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project hosts first art exhibit at Center on Addison 2023-04-30
- On April 28, the LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project hosted on opening reception to kick off its first ever art exhibit, Iridescent Footprints: Stories and Glories of Our Lives, at Center on Addison. The exhibition features collaborative ...
| 
| | CDC: One in four high-schoolers identifies as LGBTQ 2023-04-28
- CDC: One in four high-schoolers identifies as LGBTQ Approximately one in four high school students identifies as LGBTQ, according to a report the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on April 27, The Hill ...
| | |
|
|
