LGBTQ+ – Page 24 – CAHRO – California Association of Human Relations Organizations

LGBTQ+-related laws include but are not limited to: government recognition of same-sex relationships, LGBT adoption, sexual orientation and military service, immigration equality, anti-discrimination laws, hate crime laws regarding violence against LGBT people, sodomy laws, anti-lesbianism laws, and higher ages of consent for same-sex activity.

LAUSD to encourage teachers to wear LGBT ‘ally’ badges

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:41+00:00 October 11th, 2013|Education, LGBTQ+|

Beginning Friday, thousands of rainbow “ally” badges will be passed out to Los Angeles Unified teachers and staff members that they can wear to identify themselves as allies of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students.

Transgender Theology Professor Will Leave Azusa Pacific U.

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:41+00:00 October 8th, 2013|Education, LGBTQ+|

A longtime theology professor at Azusa Pacific University, an evangelical Christian institution in California, will leave the university after recently coming out as transgender.

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University of Mississippi Investigating Anti-Gay Heckling at Theater Performance

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:41+00:00 October 7th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

OXFORD, Miss. — Every seat in the house was sold out for Friday’s performance of “The Laramie Project,” a play staged by the University of Mississippi theater department about an anti-gay hate crime.

U. of Mississippi Athletes Accused of Anti-Gay Heckling

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:42+00:00 October 4th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

University of Mississippi officials are investigating an incident in which 20

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Ole Miss Apologizes After Football Players’ Reported Use of Antigay Slurs

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:42+00:00 October 4th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

The chancellor and athletic director of the University of Mississippi apologized on Thursday after a report in the university’s student newspaper, The Daily Mississippian, said that a group of football players and other students had used antigay slurs during a campus production of the play The Laramie Project, according to USA Today and a letter

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Unlikely Debate on Gay Rights in California Town

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:43+00:00 September 27th, 2013|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

PORTERVILLE, Calif. — The mayor of Porterville did not give it much thought when a local gay activist in this remote Central Valley farming town asked her to proclaim June a month of gay pride. But when the mayor, Virginia R. Gurrola, settled into her seat at City Hall to sign the proclamation, people were

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Catholic College Rescinds Invitation to Speaker Defending Same-Sex Marriage

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:43+00:00 September 24th, 2013|Education, LGBTQ+|

Providence College, a Roman Catholic school in Rhode Island, has canceled a lecture in support of same-sex marriage on Thursday by a gay philosophy professor, citing a church document that says that “Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our

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Engineering Bigotry?

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:43+00:00 September 24th, 2013|Education, LGBTQ+|

The articles in Prism, the magazine of the American Society for Engineering Education, focus on new research and teaching ideas. And the magazine periodically writes about efforts to diversify engineering.

Many readers of Prism were shocked this month when they found that the magazine published a letter with what would typically be considered anti-gay rhetoric. The

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Prop. 8 backers behind effort to repeal transgender law

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:43+00:00 September 23rd, 2013|LGBTQ+|

SAN FRANCISCO–The National Organization for Marriage, which backed Proposition 8’s now defunct ban on same-sex marriage, announced Friday that it would work to repeal a new California law that permits transgender students to use bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity, not their physical sex.

Transgender teen crowned homecoming queen at O.C. high school

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:44+00:00 September 23rd, 2013|LGBTQ+|

Cassidy Lynn Campbell broke down in tears Friday night when she learned that she had been crowned homecoming queen.