City of Boston aims to ensure LGBTQ students feel safe in public schools
Massachusetts state law mandates that all public high schools have GSAs (gender & sexuality or gay-straight alliances), supportive spaces for LGBTQ+ students, if their students want them, and the city of Boston...
Milford, New Hampshire school votes to keep trans-student–supportive bathroom, locker room policy in place
After a heated public meeting at Milford High School in Milford, New Hampshire, the school board voted to keep the school's current policy allowing transgender students to use the bathroom and locker...
New chair of Rhode Island Democratic Women’s Caucus prioritizes gender and race issues in...
The Rhode Island Democratic Women’s Caucus's newly elected chair, Rev. Dr. Donnie Anderson, recently told the Boston Globe she would "weigh in on battles taking place in local school committees and libraries...
Connecticut’s first LGBTQ-centered private school to open this autumn
The first LGBTQ-centered private school in Connecticut is scheduled to open this fall. PROUD (Proudly Respecting Our Unique Differences) Academy will prioritize what its founder, Patricia Nicolari, "saw lacking in the U.S....
ACLU, GLAD urge Massachusetts schools to reject calls for book bans
The ACLU and the Boston-based GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) have sent a letter urging Massachusetts public school districts to protect students’ legal rights by rejecting censorship in school libraries. The...
US district court allows case against NH ‘banned concepts’ law to proceed
A US district court has ruled that a lawsuit may proceed against a New Hampshire state law that "discourages public school teachers from teaching and talking about race, gender, sexual orientation, disability,...
Stoughton High senior leads protest against banning of Pride, BLM flags
Stoughton High School senior Olivia Tran is leading a movement against the banning of LGBTQ+ Pride and Black Lives Matter flags from classrooms at her Massachusetts school. The school's superintendent, Thomas Raab,...
OUT Maine executive director speaks out against using LGBTQ+ youth for political gain
Sue Campbell, Executive Director of OUT Maine, recently attended a school board meeting at Maine Regional School Unit 40, where approximately 300 people were in attendance to either give or listen to...
Maine school board votes to keep LGBTQ-inclusive sex ed book in library
At a recent meeting, the Bonny Eagle district school board voted in favor of keeping an LGBTQ-inclusive sex education book on its library shelves.
“In my evaluation about...
Feds investigate bullying incidents in Farmington, Conn. school district
Federal investigators are looking into a complaint filed by parents of LGBTQ students in the Farmington, Connecticut school district who say school officials are not protecting their children against "chronic bullying that...
