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...
Maine lit. group to provide students with banned memoir ‘Gender Queer’
Despite their recent review committee's unanimous approval of the award-winning memoir "Gender Queer: A Memoir," by Maia Kobabe, Maine's Regional School Unit 56 school board decided in a 7-2 vote to pull...
Mass. AG Healey joins coalition advocating for trans student rights
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey joined a coalition of 15 attorneys general in filing a brief in support of a 13-year-old Indiana transgender boy who is suing his school district for...
HRC awards two Boston Public Schools with Seal of Excellence for inclusivity
Two Boston Public Schools — Haley Pilot School and Mozart Elementary — received the Human Rights Campaign's Seal of Excellence for their dedication to creating LGBTQ+ inclusive school environments.
Parent cites trans people, drag queens in deadly threat against VT school
A parent of a student at the Canaan Schools in Vermont has been charged with harassment and issued "an Extreme Risk Protection Order, prohibiting from purchasing or possessing a dangerous weapon...
