A high school student in Illinois is facing off against her school over mandatory participation in the school’s “Gender and Sexuality Program.” The program is mandatory for all students to attend. The Illinois Mathematics and…
Topic: LGBTQ
School officials stand by teacher after LGBTQ, racial equality survey controversy
In Smithfield, North Carolina, school district officials are defending their decision of sending a LGBTQ rights and racial equality survey to schoolchildren, without prior approval or permission from parents. The main contentions from the parents…
Campus Pride issues list of LGBTQ-friendly colleges
The Campus Pride organization released its 2020 “Best of the Best LGBTQ-Friendly Listing of Colleges and Universities” to commemorate National Coming Out Day and LGBTQ History Month. Among the forty universities and colleges are Princeton…
Students accuse Greek organizations of exclusion, recommends disbanding altogether
An executive board of Greek life organization members issued a statement that encouraged Greek organizations to disband because of their non-inclusive past at Northwestern University. The university’s Panhellenic Association (PHA), which oversees eleven chapters, published…
Montgomery County Public Schools holds LGBTQ town hall
One of the largest Maryland public school systems held a virtual LGBTQ town hall to discuss LGBTQ activism in high schools.
DC-area public school system approves LGBTQ history course
Montgomery County, Maryland, an ultra-liberal county north of Washington, D.C., became the first public school system in the U.S. to approve an LGBTQ history course in K-12 education on May 12. Per official documents, the…
University of Louisville reverses decision, bars student from passing out pamphlets to LGBTQ Studies course students
Some students at the University of Louisville pressured administrators to bar a fellow student from passing out allegedly anti-LGBTQ pamphlets to their LGBTQ Studies class.
Anti-Trump Sentiment among Professors is Alive and Well, per Poll
A recent poll of presidential scholars in academia showed their anti-Trump biases, where they ranked President Trump at the bottom of leadership and diversity and inclusion categories among the fourteen modern U.S. presidents.
SMU Theology Course ‘Queer Bible Hermeneutics’ Interprets the Bible from LGBTQIA+ Perspective
Southern Methodist University has a course which interprets the Bible from the LGBTQIA+ perspective and whose reading material includes a commentary on the “Queer Bible.”
Young Democratic Socialist Student Chapter at Texas State Celebrated Its Non-Straight Board Members
A pro-socialism student chapter of the Young Democratic Socialists of America at Texas State University recently posted on its Twitter social media platform that it is proud that none of its committee members are straight…
Book Review
Book Review: America, Guns, and Freedom
As gun rights and gun control advocates, political surrogates, spokespeople, and groups contend over the future of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, Dr. Miguel Faria, Jr., M.D. published a book that gives extensive background,…
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