New state bill on transgender students
Mar. 20, 2013 San Francisco Chronicle Wyatt Buchanan California public schools would be required to allow transgender students to use school facilities and participate in activities and on sports teams...
View ArticleSchool Success and Opportunity Act Passes Assembly Education Committee
Apr. 17, 2013The School Success and Opportunity Act (AB 1266), authored by Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, has passed the Assembly Education Committee by a vote of 5-2. http://www.gsanetwork.orgread more
View ArticleGay High School Swim Captain Makes A Splash Standing Up For Rights
Apr. 24, 2013 OutSports Jack Davis It has been one year since I raised my hand in a U.S. history class during a lecture on gay rights, and came out as gay to 40 of my peers and my favorite...
View ArticleLGBTQ Youth Meet Legislators, Rally to Demand Opportunity to Succeed in School
Apr. 29, 2013 LGBTQ Youth Meet Legislators, Demand Opportunity to Succeed in School April 29, 2013, Sacramento – Dozens of high school students are in the state capitol today advocating for two bills...
View ArticleLGBT Students Take the Fight to Sacramento
May. 1, 2013 Frontiers LA Karen Ocamb The promise of “opportunity” is embedded in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they...
View ArticleTransgender High School Students Gain Admission to Sports Teams
May. 6, 2013 New York Times Ian Lovett Not so long ago, Toni Bias dreamed of playing in the W.N.B.A. But after starring on the girls’ junior varsity basketball team as a high school freshman, Toni came...
View ArticleCalif. moves to comply with 2011 gay history law
May. 10, 2013 Associated Press Lisa Leff California education officials took the first step this week toward complying with a law that requires public schools to include prominent gay people and gay...
View ArticleFrom Chicago to LA, Students Mass for Racial Justice
May. 24, 2013 The Nation's StudentNation Keanan Gottlieb and Logan Henderson In Sacramento, Trans Justice Hits the Senatehttp://www.thenation.com/blog/174527/chicago-la-students-mas...read more
View ArticleGSA Network on Implementing the FAIR Education Act
May. 24, 2013 Frontiers LA Karen Ocamb [excerpt]http://www.frontiersla.com/News/Context/Story.aspx?ID=196946...read more
View Article‘Boy or girl?’ As even younger kids challenge gender identity, schools try to...
May. 27, 2013 Associated Press Martha Irvine From the time they are born, we put our boys in blue beanies and our girls in pink ones. It’s a societal norm, an expectation even, that you just are what...
View ArticleBill Supporting Transgender Students Goes to the Senate Floor
Jun. 12, 2013SACRAMENTO-Today the California Senate Education Committee passed AB 1266 (Ammiano), the School Success and Opportunity Act, a bill that provides crucial support for transgender students,...
View ArticleEl Monte High School Gay-Straight Alliance Demonstrate Leadership and Impact...
Jun. 7, 2013 Mid Valley News http://www.midvalleynews.com/news/2013/06/07/el-monte-high-s...read more
View ArticleA Multitude of Messages at CSW/L.A. Pride
Jun. 11, 2013 Frontiers LA Karen Ocamb Christopher Street West/L.A. Pride President Rodney Scott thinks roughly 400,000 people attended L.A. Pride last weekend. The fire marshals report this was the...
View ArticleLGBT Advocacy Groups Stand With Civil Rights Counterparts in Disappointment...
Jun. 25, 2013WASHINGTON, June 25 — Today, the Supreme Court struck down a central part of the Voting Rights Act, invalidating crucial protections passed by Congress in 1965 and renewed four times in...
View ArticleFrameline sends LGBT films to CA schools
Jun. 27, 2013 Bay Area Reporter Matthew S. Bajko Audiences attending the annual San Francisco LGBT film festival often wonder if the films they are seeing will receive wider distribution.The answer, at...
View ArticleSenate Passes Bill Supporting Transgender Student Success
Jul. 3, 2013SACRAMENTO— Today, the California State Senate passed the School Success and Opportunity Act (Assembly Bill 1266), sending the bill that ensures transgender students have the opportunity to...
View ArticleLGBT Rights Organizations Issue Open Letter: Trayvon Deserves Justice
Jul. 15, 2013WASHINGTON, DC— A coalition of national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights organizations, led by the National Black Justice Coalition and the National Gay and Lesbian...
View ArticleGovernor Brown Signs Historic Transgender Students Bill into Law
Aug. 12, 2013SACRAMENTO—Today, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the historic School Success and Opportunity Act into law, ensuring transgender youth have the opportunity to fully participate and...
View ArticleLGBT Rights Organizations Issue Open Letter in Support of 50th Anniversary of...
Aug. 19, 2013An Open Letter in Support of 50th Anniversary of March on Washington Over the past year, our community has celebrated tremendous wins in the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and...
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