LGBT | Tag Archive

June 26, 2018

With California in the lead, LGBTQ history gets boost in school curriculum

California's FAIR Education Act is being emulated in Illinois and Massachusetts.

June 18, 2018

Pride Month resources to support LGBTQ students

Advocates say students need to feel safe to focus on learning.

April 25, 2018

Abuse, violence common among LGBT homeless youth, study finds

A new national survey reveals a complex trajectory of how LGBT youth become homeless.

January 24, 2018

State superintendent candidate Marshall Tuck returns donation from anti-LGBT funder

Civil rights group called on Tuck to renounce the money and denounce its donor, Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson.

January 1, 2018

Young, gay and living on the street: LGBT youth face increased odds of homelessness

Of the nation's 1.6 million homeless youth, 40 percent identify as LGBT, according to one survey.

November 29, 2017

Teaching LGBT history complicated by historical figures who didn't 'out' themselves

LGBT activists, historians see possibility other states may look to California's texts as models despite controversy about describing sexual orientation of historical figures.

November 6, 2017

California state board asked to reject textbooks that fall short on LGBT contributions

Two K-8 texts by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt did not comply with state's History Social Science Framework, according to Instructional Quality Commission.

September 18, 2017

Vinnie Pompei wants you to know that we're all biased, and we can work with that

Some LGBT students find themselves accepted by their peers, but not by teachers and administrators at school, said Vinnie Pompei of the Human Rights Campaign, who will speak at the EdSource Symposium in October.

Jane Meredith Adams

February 23, 2017

California legislators reassure transgender students of protections, denounce Trump

Transgender students in California remain protected from discrimination under state law, as state legislators say Trump is no friend of the LGBT community.