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The ACLU is suing the high school in the small town of Churubusco, Indiana, alleging that it violated the First Amendment rights of two female students. The Smith-Green Community School Corporation and Principal Austin Couch behaved...
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Ceara Sturgis, the lesbian senior at Wesson Attendance Center in Mississippi whose yearbook photo was rejected by the school because she is wearing a tuxedo, plans to press ahead with her complaint against the school. The school's superintendent...
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Some enterprising undergraduates at MIT have discovered that by using some complex algorithms, they can calculate, based on who your friends are on social networking sites, whether or not you're gay. The study by Carter Jernigan and Behram...
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The ACLU announced a settlement yesterday in a lawsuit against a high school in Corona Del Mar, California, where threats and allegations of institutionalized homophobia and misogyny erupted earlier this year. The troubles began when Fal...
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Two Tennessee school districts have stopped blocking LGBT sites in response to a lawsuit by the ACLU. Knox County Schools and Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools had been using Internet filters to keep students from accessing non-pornographic...
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On May 21, we reported that the Ramona school district in San Diego County told sixth grader Natalie Jones that she could not give her oral report on openly gay politician Harvey Milk before the class because her fellow students did not have signed...
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ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation coordinates the Internet's naming system, including the designation of generic top-level domains (e.g., dotCOM, dotORG, dotGOV, etc.). In...
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The Associated Press reports that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has formally requested that school officials in Tennessee stop blocking students' access to non-sexual gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender websites. The organization...
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A 17-year-old lesbian is suing her Indiana high school because the administration has forbidden her from wearing a tuxedo to the prom. The principal of Lebanon High School in Boone County, Indiana has cited a school policy which states that boys...