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Written by Instinct Staff | Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Tags: sullivan high school, indiana, diana medley, teacher, nate walden, responds, homophobic, lgbt students, youth, supports, prom, traditional

Support for Sullivan, Indiana's LGBT students continues to reverberate across social networks where teacher Nate Walden has a special message for Diana Medley, the homophobic special ed teacher we told you about on Monday. 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Monday, 11 February 2013
Tags: zachary reeder, servite high school, orange california, teacher, catfish, posed, fake, girl, teen, solicit, nude, pics, underage, boys, students, dbags

The game of catfish got even creepier (if that was even possible) over the weekend when it was discovered that 30-year old Zachary Reeder, a teacher at Servite Catholic High School in Orange, California, had allegedly been posing as a teen girl to get nude pics out of his male students. 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Monday, 11 February 2013
Tags: sullivan, indiana, high school, medley, special ed, teacher, students, discrimination, homophobic, religion, christianity, ban, queers, anti-gay, prom

Students (and at least one teacher) at Sullivan High School in Indiana have demanded that queers be banned from the "traditional" prom they'd like to hold later this year. Local special ed teacher Diana Medley agrees BECAUSE THE BIBLE. 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Friday, 08 February 2013
Tags: prince george county public schools, maryland, caught, ex gay, reparative, therapy, videos, health classes, students, removes

Students of Maryland's Prince George County Public Schools have been saved from appalling experiments of dangerous ex-gay therapy after local media caught wind of a dangerous program being taught in the district.

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Written by Instinct Staff | Friday, 14 December 2012
Tags: patrick henry college, queers at patrick henry college, blog, evangelical college, michael farris, honor code, gay students

Were you guys aware that there are no gay students at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia? 

Not one. Currently or previously. 

How do we know? Because the evangelical college's Chancellor and Founder, Dr. Michael Farris says so! 

Check out his explanation after the jump.

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Written by Instinct Staff | Wednesday, 05 December 2012
Tags: notre dame, university, south bend, indiana, approves, expands, lgbt, services, gay, lesbian, students

LGBT and questioning students at the University of Notre Dame are about to receive a lot more resources for life on the traditionally conservative campus according to a new expansions approved by the school. 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Tags: national union of students, great britain, united kingdom, i saw daddy kissing santa claus, holidays, marriage equality, same sex, gay, prime minister, david cameron, campaign

Great Britain's National Union of Students is readying "I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus" cards to send to the Prime Minister to encourage him to push for marriage equality legislation. Details follow. 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 20 September 2012
Tags: scotus, supreme court, justice ruth bader ginsburg, colorado, students, speak, marriage equality, same sex, doma, defense of marriage act, case, take up

Speaking before students in Colorado on Wednesday, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg let it slip that the Supreme Court of the United States was poised to take up a Defense of Marriage Act case. 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 06 September 2012
Tags: alabama, students, disciplined, port spanish, daphne, state championship, football game, televised, homophobic, sign, that's gay, purple, girl's name, lgbt, anti gay

A group of high school students from Spanish Fort, Alabama apparently didn't get the memo that the rest of the world has moved on from "that's gay" jokes. During a state championship title against Daphne that was broadcast on national television, the students raised a banner attacking their opponents' team color. "Purple? Man, that's gay." 

The athletes from Daphne were probably shaking in their boots after reading that clever zing, right? 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Wednesday, 05 September 2012
Tags: glsen, lgbt students, survey, anti-gay bullying, anti-gay harassment, decline, gay-straight alliance

A survey by the Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) finds that anti-gay harassment is declining in schools. 

Details after the jump.

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Written by Instinct Staff | Tuesday, 07 August 2012
Tags: milton hershey school, pennsylvania, denies, admission, hiv, positive, students, reverses, policy, applicants, threat, children, announces

Following waves of protests putting the focus on its discriminatory policy, Pennsylvania's Milton Hershey School (founded by the chocolate kingpin) has reversed its decision and will offer admission to HIV positive students. Details follow. 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Monday, 02 July 2012
Tags: alexandra pennell, central connecticut state university, anti-gay notes, fake threats, felony, gay students

Police have charged Alexandra Pennell, an openly gay 19-year-old student at Central Connecticut State University with eight felony counts of fabricating evidence, eight misdemeanor charges of lying to police, eight misdemeanor counts of filing a false police report and one count of making a false statement to police, after they discovered the source of anti-gay notes that allegedly had been left for her by an unknown perpetrator. 

It turns out she'd been writing the notes herself as a cry for attention.

More after the jump.

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