Education

Current Affairs
Feb 08 2019

Teacher ‘threatened’ by parents for talking to kids about LGBT rights

Gay dads make great parents says study

Current Affairs
Feb 08 2019

Gay dads make great parents, says study

Christian group wins right to bar gay student from leadership role

Current Affairs
Feb 08 2019

Christian group can ban gay student from leadership role, judge rules

Transgender teacher Jennifer Eller says she was harassed and discriminated against

Current Affairs
Feb 02 2019

Transgender teacher harassed by staff and students in US, says lawsuit

Trans teen Charlie Baum with her mother on the night she became homecoming queen

Current Affairs
Feb 01 2019

Trans teen overcomes death threats to be crowned homecoming queen

Democratic candidate Phil Murphy, who ran against Republican Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno for the governor of New Jersey , speaks at a rally on October 19, 2017 in Newark, New Jersey

Current Affairs
Feb 01 2019

New Jersey Governor ‘honoured’ to sign LGBT-inclusive education into law

Left, Cllr Mohammad Idrees. Centre, a file photo of an LGBT-inclusive education resource.

Current Affairs
Jan 28 2019

Labour politician criticises ‘aggressive’ LGBT-inclusive education

Gay couple kiss in Paris, France.

Current Affairs
Jan 28 2019

France combats anti-LGBT bullying with new school campaign

Current Affairs
Jan 21 2019

High schools block access to LGBT websites but allow anti-gay ones

Two sports players hug in uniform

Current Affairs
Jan 16 2019

South Dakota Republicans want transgender boys to play for girls’ sports teams

11-year-old girl Madissen died by suicide in December 2017.

Current Affairs
Jan 11 2019

Girls, 11, died by suicide after being bullied for ‘questioning their sexuality’

Teacher who bullied transgender student to lose his job

Current Affairs
Jan 09 2019

Teacher who ‘said trans student freaks him out’ to keep job

Schools should teach LGBT+ education, faith leaders wrote in an open letter.

Current Affairs
Jan 08 2019

Two thirds of teachers have no training on LGBT issues, says survey

Teacher who bullied transgender student to lose his job

Current Affairs
Jan 08 2019

West Virginia teacher who ‘bullied trans teen’ faces indefinite suspension

A photo of Christian Zeitvogelplaying football for Michigan’s Kalamazoo College in the US

Current Affairs
Jan 08 2019

College football player Christian Zeitvogel comes out as gay

Current Affairs
Jan 07 2019

Ultra-religious Jewish families will ‘leave UK over LGBT education’

The Rose Parade's Rose Queen, Louise Deser Siskel, and her court

Current Affairs
Dec 28 2018

Rose Parade set to have its first ever queer queen

An Ofsted-style banner created by student activists to highlight how there is no compulsory LGBT sex education in English schools. (StraightJacket)

Current Affairs
Dec 27 2018

Students hijack Ofsted signs in bid for LGBT inclusive sex ed in 2019

A photo of Rev Jerome Lavigne, the priest who said the Pride flag was created by Satan

Current Affairs
Dec 25 2018

Catholic priest who works with kids says Pride flag was made by Satan

Transgender university students told to use gender neutral toilets instead of men's toilets

Current Affairs
Dec 22 2018

Transgender university students told not to use men’s toilet

Photo of Lee Livengood, accused of harassing trans boy

Current Affairs
Dec 19 2018

School teacher suspended for telling trans boy ‘you freak me out’

Boy holds his head in his hands as he sits on a bench

Current Affairs
Dec 18 2018

Trans boy ‘bullied in school bathroom by assistant principal’

An image of the student union at the University of Warwick.

Current Affairs
Dec 16 2018

Warwick University society criticised for Facebook poll asking if gender is binary

Two women smile while taking a photo of themselves

Current Affairs
Dec 14 2018

LGBT statistics: Having one gay friend makes you a better person

Supporters of LGBT associations kiss as they take part in a protest in central Rome on 5 March 2016.

Current Affairs
Dec 10 2018

Italy blocks survey on homophobia for ‘promoting sexual fluidity’

Kyler Murray of Oklahoma poses for a photo after winning the 2018 Heisman Trophy on December 8

Current Affairs
Dec 10 2018

Kyler Murray apologises for ‘queer’ tweets after winning Heisman Trophy

A Gay-Straight Alliance school bus takes part in a Pride parade

Current Affairs
Dec 06 2018

Indiana school banned Gay-Straight Alliance from saying ‘gay’ and ‘LGBT’

A student reads a book

Current Affairs
Dec 05 2018

Homophobes threatened to light gay kids on fire at Canada school

Trans girl bathroom The Osseo Senior High School video shot

Current Affairs
Nov 30 2018

Horrifying video shows trans girl ‘harassed by school staff’ in bathroom

Drag queen Miss Tish Ewe, who is head teacher Andrew Livingstone at Horatio House in Norfolk

Current Affairs
Nov 30 2018

Private school defends drag queen head teacher

Lesbian, gay and bisexual students are more likely to self-harm than straight students

Current Affairs
Nov 25 2018

Lesbian, gay and bisexual students more likely to self-harm

A school student. A recent survey has found that more than two thirds of students have no grounding in LGBT issues

Current Affairs
Nov 25 2018

Mum complains about LGBT lessons, is met with teacher wearing pro-LGBT shirt

A young man in Saudi Arabia, where textbooks teach gay sex is punishable by death, stands in front of a portrait of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Current Affairs
Nov 22 2018

Saudi Arabia ‘teaches kids gay sex causes natural disasters’

School girl writing

Current Affairs
Nov 20 2018

Catholic school teaches homosexuality is curable ‘deformity’

Lesbian athlete Emily Scheck is a college student in New York state. (GoFundMe)

Community
Nov 19 2018

Friends raise over $50,000 for lesbian kicked out of home

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Current Affairs
Nov 15 2018

Student’s door defaced with homophobic slurs and swastika

Olivia McMahon and Ryan Campinho Valadas speak to PinkNews about being victims of anti-gay bullying

Community
Nov 14 2018

‘Homophobic bullying made me suicidal and depressed’

A picture of Brendon Michael Thomas, who was murdered on November 8, 2018

Crime
Nov 14 2018

Gay man discovered murdered in his Baltimore home

The charity Diversity Role Models runs a workshop on LGBT issues in schools in London.

Current Affairs
Nov 14 2018

LGBT issues should be ‘integral’ to kids’ education, doctors say

Current Affairs
Nov 11 2018

School that fired lesbian guidance counsellor introduces new LGBT programme