Kamala Harris defends LGBTQ+ teachers & condemns book bans at teacher labor union conference
“We want to ban assault weapons, and they want to ban books. Can you imagine?” Harris said of her opponents.
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Education
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If you think Project 2025 is scary, take a look at Donald Trump's Agenda 47
If reelected, Donald Trump will "cut federal funding for any school or program pushing critical race theory or gender ideology" and "create a new credentialing body to certify teachers who embrace patriotic values."
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Meet George Washington University’s pioneering lesbian president Ellen Granberg
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June 28 2024 4:02 PM
Oklahoma official Ryan Walters institutes Christian indoctrination in public schools
He has mandated that all fifth- through 12th-grade students must study the Bible.
June 28 2024 2:49 PM
Here are 15 books you should read this Pride Month
From books about trans identity to queer history, here are some of the best books to help understand and revel in LGBTQ+ identity and its intersections. What books would you recommend?
June 22 2024 11:30 AM
Ryan Walters is too much even for Republicans in Oklahoma
The far-right extremist superintendent of public instruction keeps racking up losses.
June 19 2024 10:45 AM
Anti-LGBTQ+ Texas judge rules against Biden’s Title IX protections for transgender students
Judge Reed O’Connor stepped in to block the U.S. Department of Education from protecting LGBTQ+ kids from discrimination in public schools, at least in Texas.
June 13 2024 5:28 AM
A trans girl was assaulted at a Minnesota high school. Her family is demanding justice (exclusive)
The mother of a transgender girl who was viciously attacked at Hopkins High School in Minnesota tells The Advocate about the response from both the school and local community.
June 07 2024 12:28 PM
Missouri school district must pay trans student $4 million after barring him from boys bathrooms
Justices determined that the plaintiff was discriminated against for having "female genitalia" when the district "does not speculate, inspect, or otherwise inquire as to the genitalia of other male students.”
June 06 2024 9:03 AM
Federal authorities are investigating attacks on transgender and Latino students in Virginia
Norview High School officials in Norfolk are accused of looking the other way toward harassment of some students who were targeted for their identity.
June 02 2024 2:51 PM
Ryan Walters’s latest gambit fails as critics outnumber supporters at Oklahoma education meeting
Local parents and LGBTQ+ advocates say the ultra-conservative politician is trying to silence criticism.
May 28 2024 7:00 AM
It's now illegal for Minnesota libraries to ban LGBTQ+ books under this new law
The North Star State has officially banned book bans.
May 24 2024 12:30 PM
Doug Emhoff at NYC event: Book banning ‘erodes our democracy’
He warned about the dangers of Republican book bans.
May 23 2024 9:21 PM
UFC star Bryce Mitchell will homeschool his son so he doesn't 'end up turning gay'
The featherweight went on an unprompted rant against everything from vaccines and LGBTQ+ people to Edgar Allen Poe.
May 23 2024 12:35 PM
Federal judges express doubts in appeal over transgender sorority member at University of Wyoming
The case, which asks the appeals court to rule against the sorority’s right to accept transgender members, was already dismissed by a lower court judge.
May 18 2024 12:15 PM
Billie Jean King says a Massachusetts challenge to a kids book about her is ‘so very sad’
A mother has asked her child’s school to remove the book because it mentions LGBTQ+ people and divorce. The lesbian tennis legend had thoughts.
May 16 2024 5:18 PM
Adult LGBTQ+ role models are instrumental to queer youth's mental health. Here's how
Two-thirds of LGBTQ+ young people (67 percent) report having at least one older LGBTQ+ adult role model in their day-to-day lives. Here's why that's important.
May 16 2024 11:05 AM