Education | GLAAD https://glaad.org GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBTQ acceptance. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:06:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://media.glaad.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/20110814/cropped-glaad-cyan-icon-32x32.png Education | GLAAD https://glaad.org 32 32 Heroes of the Resistance: Standing Up for LGBTQ Rights in Employment, the First Amendment, Health Care, Marriage Equality, and More. https://glaad.org/heroes-of-the-resistance-standing-up-for-lgbtq-rights-in-employment-the-first-amendment-health-care-marriage-equality-and-more/ https://glaad.org/heroes-of-the-resistance-standing-up-for-lgbtq-rights-in-employment-the-first-amendment-health-care-marriage-equality-and-more/#respond Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:47:30 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=934914 Much has happened this week in positive changemaking for the LGBTQ community at this time of challenge and uncertainty. Heroes in government, law, and in faith communities, are standing up to enormous pressure by the Trump administration and those emboldened by anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. Standing Up for LGBTQ Protections in Employment At the Equal Employment Opportunity [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/heroes-of-the-resistance-standing-up-for-lgbtq-rights-in-employment-the-first-amendment-health-care-marriage-equality-and-more/feed/ 0 Fact Sheet: Kamala Harris on LGBTQ Issues: Education https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-harris-education/ https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-harris-education/#respond Fri, 09 Aug 2024 15:13:57 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=912259 GLAAD has documented Vice President Kamala Harris’ LGBTQ record on education issues, including her record on intellectual freedom in classrooms and libraries, transgender health care, and the right to learn accurate American history. Harris’ LGBTQ record is available on GLAAD’s Kamala Harris Accountability Tracker, as well as the Biden-Harris Administration’s Accountability Tracker. Bullying and anti-LGBTQ [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-harris-education/feed/ 0 Election 2024: Exposing Project 2025 https://glaad.org/election-2024-exposing-project-2025/ https://glaad.org/election-2024-exposing-project-2025/#respond Mon, 24 Jun 2024 21:56:04 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=908598 What is Project 2025? Project 2025 is a presidential transition plan and a government in waiting, spearheaded and organized by the far-right the Heritage Foundation, and with 100 coalition partner organizations, many of which are well-known for pushing anti-LGBTQ policy, legal efforts, and harmful rhetoric, accompanied by Christian nationalism. The project is a 180-day playbook [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/election-2024-exposing-project-2025/feed/ 0 GLAAD Institute Alum and Texas Activist is Fighting LGBTQ Censorship in the Lone Star State and the U.S. https://glaad.org/glaad-institute-alum-of-students-engaged-in-advancing-texas-is-fighting-lgbtq-censorship-in-the-lone-star-state-and-us/ https://glaad.org/glaad-institute-alum-of-students-engaged-in-advancing-texas-is-fighting-lgbtq-censorship-in-the-lone-star-state-and-us/#respond Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:43:01 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=900068 Texas is one of four states – including Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Missouri – with a state law that requires advance parental notification of any LGBTQ-related education, and allows parents to opt their children out (or requires opt-in), according to the Movement Advancement Project (MAP). Texas has also banned upwards of 625 books between 2022-2023 alone. [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/glaad-institute-alum-of-students-engaged-in-advancing-texas-is-fighting-lgbtq-censorship-in-the-lone-star-state-and-us/feed/ 0 Riley Gaines https://glaad.org/gap/riley-gaines/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 16:13:59 +0000 https://glaad.org/?post_type=gap&p=845399 Riley Gaines is an American former competitive swimmer from Gallatin, Tennessee. In 2022, while swimming for the University of Kentucky in the 200-yard NCAA freestyle championship, Gaines tied for fifth place with University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who became the first out trans woman champion in the NCAA women’s division. Since then Gaines has [...]

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]]> LGBTQ Youth File Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against Anti-Trans Texas School District Policy https://glaad.org/lgbtq-youth-file-federal-civil-rights-complaint-against-anti-trans-texas-school-district-policy/ https://glaad.org/lgbtq-youth-file-federal-civil-rights-complaint-against-anti-trans-texas-school-district-policy/#respond Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:21:38 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=847620 On Monday, November 13, Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT) – a student-led movement demonstrating youth visibility in educational policy making – filed a formal complaint of discrimination with the US Department of Education after Katy Independent School District’s Board of Trustees adopted a comprehensive anti-transgender policy in August, SEAT declared in a press release.  [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/lgbtq-youth-file-federal-civil-rights-complaint-against-anti-trans-texas-school-district-policy/feed/ 0 How Two Teachers in Mexico Created a “Group Hug” for LGBTQ+ Youth https://glaad.org/how-two-teachers-in-mexico-created-a-group-hug-for-lgbtq-youth/ https://glaad.org/how-two-teachers-in-mexico-created-a-group-hug-for-lgbtq-youth/#respond Fri, 08 Sep 2023 02:26:50 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=842070 GLAAD contributor Enrique Torre Molina is a diversity, inclusion and LGBTQ+ community activist, speaker and consultant working with companies, nonprofit organizations, government agencies and media. He co-founded Colmena 41, co-hosts the “Mafia Gay” podcast and lives in Mexico City. Abrazo Grupal (“group hug”) is an online community by and for LGBTQ+ people and our allies, [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/how-two-teachers-in-mexico-created-a-group-hug-for-lgbtq-youth/feed/ 0 GLAAD & S.E.A.T. Organize a Media Training with LGBTQ Advocates in Houston https://glaad.org/glaad-seat-organize-a-media-training-with-lgbtq-advocates-in-houston/ https://glaad.org/glaad-seat-organize-a-media-training-with-lgbtq-advocates-in-houston/#respond Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:51:11 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=839273 For GLAAD Media Institute Alum Kevin Anderson, interviews with journalists have become increasingly prevalent in his world. Anderson has recently left his career of 13 years to act as the full-time Founding Chief Executive Officer of the T.R.U.T.H. (Telling Unapologetic Truth Through Healing) Project.  Anderson’s organization was founded in Houston in 2013. Additionally, the organization [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/glaad-seat-organize-a-media-training-with-lgbtq-advocates-in-houston/feed/ 0 Stacey Woolley was reelected to Tulsa Public School Board of Education. Her campaign recognizes skills taught at #GLAADInstitute training https://glaad.org/stacey-woolley-was-reelected-tulsa-public-school-board-education-her-campaign-recognizes-skills/ https://glaad.org/stacey-woolley-was-reelected-tulsa-public-school-board-education-her-campaign-recognizes-skills/#respond Tue, 18 Apr 2023 20:53:07 +0000 https://glaad.logalt.net/?p=827212 Stacey Woolley was reelected on April 4 as a Tulsa Public School District One Board of Education member. The incumbent is an educator and mother of two young adults and three children enrolled in Tulsa Public School (TPS).

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]]> https://glaad.org/stacey-woolley-was-reelected-tulsa-public-school-board-education-her-campaign-recognizes-skills/feed/ 0 #GLAADinstitute alum, Zaylore Stout, pushes against Black history censorship with his own series: “Book bans are nothing new” https://glaad.org/glaadinstitute-alum-zaylore-stout-pushes-against-black-history-censorship-his-own-series-book/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:56:55 +0000 https://glaad.logalt.net/blog/glaadinstitute-alum-zaylore-stout-pushes-against-black-history-censorship-his-own-series-book/ For Zaylore Stout integrating history, advocacy and access to Black, Brown, Indigenous, Asian and Pacific Islander, and LGBTQ stories has become a life long mission. Now, eight states require comprehensive LGBTQ curriculum, but many others are introducing LGBTQ curriculum bans (at least seven since last year, while Florida has made it the law of the land) [...]

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