13 Times School Was Homophobic

As encouraging as achieving marriage equality has been, LGBT people still face numerous challenges in the quest for true parity in society. Nowhere can this be felt more profoundly than in the struggles of LGBT youth, who often deal with bigotry and discrimination from both their peers and the adults who are supposed to protect them. There are some happy endings in this list of “13 Times High Schools Were Homophobic,” but there are many young people who will never see justice. Read these heartbreaking and sometimes affirming stories on the next pages.