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• Pennsylvania high school is forced to apologize after an LGBT club staged a drag show on school property: Veteran French teacher is placed on leave for helping organize the event

Officials at a high school in Pennsylvania were forced to apologize and place a veteran French teacher on leave after the school's LGBT club staged a drag show event on school grounds last week.
(Paul Farrell, DailyMail, May 1, 2022 )

• Florida High School Student Suspended After Handing Out Pride Flags

"I may have been suspended, but I will not be silenced. I am proud of who I am," said junior Jack Petocz after a protest against the "Don't Say Gay" bill.
(Mary Papenfuss, The HuffPost, US, March 4, 2022 )

• School board member votes to ban GSA saying kids should just go to church instead

LGBTQ students wanted to form a club in his district. "That’s what we have churches in the community for."
(Alex Bollinger, LGBTQ Nation, US, February 17, 2022 )

• Parents in Georgia have reported that an elementary school administrator took down a young child’s Pride artwork and compared it to a Nazi flag.

The artwork featured a rainbow Pride flag, an umbrella, and the words “Gay is OK”, and was drawn by a student at Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary School, in Athens, Georgia, which teaches children aged five to 11.
(Lily Wakefield, Pink News, UK, January 28, 2022 )

Follow up

Principal caught on video popping rainbow balloons sent in support of LGBT+ pupil

Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary School, in Athens, Georgia, has already faced immense backlash this year, after a school administrator took down a young child’s Pride artwork and compared it to Nazi symbolism.
(Lily Wakefield, Pink News, US, February 18, 2022 )

• Heterosexual neighbor told 6-year-old he’ll “die of AIDS” because his dad is LGBTQ

A six-year-old child was left in fear after a neighbor shouted anti-gay abuse at him, telling him that they’ll die of AIDS and calling him a faggot because his father is queer.
(Alex Bollinger , LGBTQ Nation, US, December 15, 2021 )

• What Do We Want To Teach Kids?

As schools and students attempt to stop bulling and promote inclusiveness, some parents, politicians and outsiders are doing their best to sabotage those efforts.
Staff Writer, BoyWiki, November 8, 2021

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• Parents Raising Awareness Of Bullying After Son’s Death

A 12-year-old in Tennessee took his own life over the Thanksgiving weekend after a long period of being bullied at school for being gay. Eli Fritchley was a seventh grader at Cascades Middle School in Bedford County. His parents told local news station WHNT he was a peaceful soul who played trombone in the marching band and wasn’t afraid to be himself.
(Randy Slovacek, Instinct, US, December 6, 2021 )

A gay teen in Scotland was punched and kicked to the ground and subjected to homophobic abuse in what is being treated as a hate crime.

The unnamed 15-year-old was attacked as he was getting off a bus on City Road in St Andrews on 27 October...the attackers reportedly followed the gay teen off the bus and launched into a violent attack while the victim’s back was turned.
(Maggie Baska, Pink News, UK, November 2, 2021 )

• Minneapolis schools are spying on queer students & outing them to teachers and parents

Since spring 2020, Minneapolis schools have been using an online surveillance application called Gaggle to spy on students’ online activity. The software flags LGBTQ-related terms and has already reported outed at least one LGBTQ student to their parents.
(LGBTQ Nation, US, October 16, 2021)

• Gang of Heterosexual thugs ‘stamp on the head’ of gay teenager, just 14, in ‘unprovoked attack’ in St Helens

A gay teenager who is just 14-years-old was punched and “stamped on the head” by a gang in St Helens, England, stoking further fear over an uptick of anti-LGBT+ violence in the area.
( Josh Milton, Pink News, UK, Sep. 1, 2021)

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• ‘This Is The Best Day Of My Life’

When 12-year-old Brody Neville came out to his friends last Spring most of them stopped being friends with him. He did not want to celebrate his birthday this year thinking that he had no one to celebrate it with. His mom, Leah O’Donnell spoke to CBC News telling them how sad and alone her son felt,
(Robert Dominic, Instinct Magazine, US, August 31, 2021)

• Son Repeatedly Called Homophobic Slurs And Physically Attacked

Jason Cianciotto and his husband are suing the New York City Department of Education (DoE), the Board of Education (BoE) for New York City Public Schools, and several employees at the school their adopted son attended between 2017 and 2019.
(Robert Dominic, Instinct Magazine, Augest 2, 2021)

• Child Abusers Arrested In The Case Of Gay Atlanta Boy

There has been an update in the case of Tyler (a 12 year old gay boy from Atlanta), in which three (heterosexual) adults have been arrested.
( Rahmel Reid, Instinct, US, July 20, 2021)

• High School Student Has Microphone Cut During Graduation Speech

Bryce Dershem said (heterosexual) school faculty told him the speech was not his "therapy session" and to remove all references to being gay and his victory over mental health issues.
(Donald Padgett, Out Magazine, US, June 25, 2021)