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A white sorority drill team from Arkansas won the national Sprite Step-Off this week, the first time a non-black team has done so. In the clip below, the audience seems ready to laugh them off the stage at first, but is quickly won over. But not everybody is cheering. Via News One For Black America: Stepping, which is deeply rooted …

Ryan Sorba’s famous Smith College lesbians really liked hearing who their commencement speaker will be. (Via – Julie Bolcer @ Advocate)

A class action suit has been filed against a Pennsylvania school district for distributing laptop computers to its students and then remote accessing their webcams to spy on their home lives. According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams …

Buttars wants to save Utah’s crippled budget by doing away with the 12th grade. Students immediately formed their own Buttars PAC.

The Texas State Board of Education is easily the most influential group in the nation when it comes to the subjects studied in public schools. Their recommendations directly affect the make-up of the textbooks sold to school systems all over the country. Naturally, therefore, Christianists and assorted wingnuts fiercely lobby the TSBOE, including from within, to ensure that American kids …

Linda Harvey at Mission America is screaming about Rep. Jared Polis’ federal bill to protect LGBT students from bullying and assault. Because beating the gay out of kids is the Christian way. The purpose of this bill is not what is being stated, but is quite simply to mandate in public schools one acceptable viewpoint on the issue of homosexuality, …

The ACLU has sent a letter to Fresno City College demanding that health professor Dr. Bradley Lopez stop teaching anti-gay lies to his students. The ACLU letter includes several examples of Professor Lopez teaching sectarian views and personal bias as “fact.” In recent lectures, Professor Lopez: * Presented a slide listing “homosexual facts,” including that homosexuality is a “biological misapplication …

An Ohio woman has filed a federal lawsuit against her son’s elementary school after his teacher mocked his long hair by tying it into pigtails. According to the suit, the teacher then brought the boy to the front of the class and encouraged his classmates to mock him with feminine versions of his name. Allegedly, the teacher finished by taking …

Due to a 2006 lawsuit, some Maryland high schools have been forced to allow the distribution of “ex-gay” fliers by PFOX. Some Montgomery County high schools passed out fliers this week from an organization that contends gays can become heterosexual through therapy, and the schools say they cannot prevent the use of their distribution system by such groups. The fliers, …

As the band played Hot Stuff, students at John Carroll University occupied center court during a basketball game to protest the school’s decision to exclude LGBT people from its non-discrimination policy.

A school system in Virginia has pulled a revised version of The Diary Of Anne Frank after a Christian parent complained about the book’s inclusion of previously redacted bits about homosexuality. Culpeper County public school officials have decided to stop assigning a version of Anne Frank’s diary, one of the most enduring symbols of the atrocities of the Nazi regime, …

Spurred by the recent anti-gay cartoon published in the student newspaper, yesterday a large group of Notre Dame students rallied at the school’s administration building to demand that the school president accept a letter calling for a more inclusive and welcoming campus environment for LGBT students.

A California school district has pulled all the dictionaries from its libraries after a parent complained that a student was able to look up the definition of “oral sex.” School officials will review the dictionary to decide if it should be permanently banned because of the “sexually graphic” entry, said district spokeswoman Betti Cadmus. The dictionaries were initially purchased a …

But the Phelps didn’t show. Via the University of Colorado’s Daily Camera: Hundreds of University of Colorado students gathered around the Dalton Trumbo Fountain on Monday night in a show of support for gay rights. The demonstration came before a same-sex marriage debate on the CU campus organized by the Aquinas Institute for Catholic Thought. “I want to promote love …

A federal court has ruled that the University of California does not have to certify Christian high schools that teach creationism and other dumbass ideas. Calvary Chapel Christian School in Murrieta, Calif., and the Association of Christian Schools International claimed the university’s review policy was unconstitutional because it refused to certify courses that taught creationism and other beliefs. “The district …

The editor of Notre Dame’s student newspaper, Kara King, has resigned in the wake of an anti-gay cartoon published last week. King resigned in a letter published in the paper Monday. In the letter, she wrote, “A miscommunication between another editor and myself led to the comic running without me first reading and approving the material. Regardless, no excuse can …

The editor of Notre Dame’s student newspaper has issued an apology for a viciously anti-gay cartoon that ran in this week’s edition. “What’s the quickest way to turn a fruit into a vegetable?” A baseball bat. The punchline in the cartoon was originally going to be “AIDS,” but the artist “didn’t want to make fun of fatal diseases.” GLAAD is …

To stoke up student fervor for their annual football game with arch rival Harvard, Yale students voted to sell a t-shirt using a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald: “I think of all Harvard men as sissies.” On the back, the students added: “WE AGREE.” But after complaints from a campus LGBT group, the shirt has been dropped. The LGBT Co-op …

Shorewood High School was challenged by a rival school to a lipsyncing contest, resulting the below video which was performed to music playing backwards. As the kids walked backwards. I think. I’m a little confused how they did it. Amazing. (Via – Slog)

If you are a young openly gay man in the Philly metropolitan area, tuition scholarships are available. The Lax Scholarship Fund was established in 1994 by the late entrepreneur and inventor Jonathan R. Lax for the purpose of encouraging gay men to obtain additional education; aspiring to positions in which they contribute to society; being out about their sexual orientation; …