Tag: high school

Peter Vlaming claimed using male pronouns for his student, a trans boy, went against his religious beliefs. A high school teacher in Virginia was let go for refusing to use male pronouns to refer to a transgender student. Peter Vlaming, 47, taught French at West Point Public Schools for at least seven years before he was fired earlier this month, reports The Virginian-Pilot. The decision came to a vote by school board members after Vlaming objected to using male pronouns to...

Jeremy Sanchez had been bullied because of his bisexuality. A Los Angeles high school student was found dead this week, allegedly murdered by a former boyfriend, the Los Angeles Times reports. The body of Jeremy Sanchez, a 17-year-old junior at South El Monte High School, was discovered Wednesday in the bushes along San Gabriel River Trail. A 16-year-old friend has been arrested on suspicion of Sanchez’s murder and is awaiting arraignment at a juvenile detention center. The suspect, unnamed because he is...

'We want you gone queer' A gay high school teacher in Kansas decided to move away after months of harassment and threats. Michael Hill taught visual arts at Nemaha Valley High School in Seneca, Kansas. He originally came out last October on National Coming Out Day. That’s when the negativity began. ‘Things got ugly,’ he told the Topeka-Capitol Journal. ‘I started to fear for my own well-being.’ He shared some of the letters he received on Facebook, as well as his future plans. On...

"It is nice to be able to go to prom with whoever you want and not have to worry about what other people might think,” says Missouri senior Jake Bain. Prom is often the culmination of a great high school experience. But as the only openly gay students at John Burroughs School in Ladue, Missouri, it was more than that for seniors—and boyfriends—Jake Bain and Hunter Sigmund. https://instagram.com/p/Bhm63-KHuTl/?utm_source=ig_embed “Prom this year was amazing,” Sigmund shared with Outsports. It was my fourth school...

This December we covered the inspiring story of gay high school football team captain Jake Blain's upcoming tenure at Indiana State University. Now things have gone from inspiring to awwwz-inducing as pics of Blain and his swim team boyfriend Hunter Sigmund attending prom together have hit the web! At only nineteen-years-old, Blain has already made headlines for not only his sports career, but also for the discrimination he faced from Westboro Baptist Church after announcing his four years at Indiana...

"Why don't you take care of yourself?" Advertising has opened up to LGBT representation worldwide, but a lip balm commercial out of Thailand is taking it to the next level: In it, a teen confronts another boy, claiming he’s broken his sister’s heart. But the boy is stunned when his rival leans in seductively and reveals, “I told her… ’I don’t think of you like that—I prefer your older brother'” He then moistens the other boy’s lips with some KA Lip Care. “Don’t...

"I'm honestly disgusted and embarrassed," wrote one parent. When yearbooks were distributed at Atascocita High School earlier this month, some parents were outraged to find that a page had been dedicated to some of the Houston area school’s LGBT students: The spread highlighted four queer students, including photos and coming-out stories set against a rainbow-colored background. While the yearbook staff added the section to be more inclusive, bigoted parents blew up on an online forum Atascocita.com, leveling threats and insults at...

Wyatt Pertuset had told a handful of trusted friends and word spread like wildfire At North Union High School in Ohio in Richwood, Ohio, the most terrifying thought in football star Wyatt Pertuset’s head was that anybody would find out he was gay. ‘I was always terrified with the locker room talk that went on about gays and how gross they are and how wrong being gay is. Yes, that talk was there. It just pushed me further into the back...

Brie Grimes, 17, was named prom queen and her girlfriend Lindsey Creel, 18, prom king at their high school in Tallahassee. The couple celebrated their three year anniversary in February after meeting during their first year at Leon High School through friends. Brie said: ‘Prom night was so much fun – we literally danced the night away. ‘We didn’t expect to win considering the people we were up against. ‘We began to get really close and in such a short period of time...

Thanks for the memories. Prom season is here: High school students across America have designed elaborate promposals, saved up their pennies and squeezed into formalwear for a magical evening of memory-making. And increasingly, proms have become inclusive of LGBT kids. Below are heart-tugging photos of queer students and their friends and allies, all gussied up for the big night. http://imgur.com/a/8b8fj#DM9JgTo https://www.instagram.com/p/BTAooR_lS3B/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BTSvR_aDElp/ Indianapolis’s North Central high school crowned 17-year-old Alan Belmont as their first-ever transgender prom king this year. He’s pictured here with his girlfriend...

This real life story is guaranteed to brighten your day Bravery takes all forms, and courage is especially hard when you’re in high school. One closeted student in his senior year looked to someone he knew, an out guy, as an example of the kind of courage he admired. And it helps that he was in love with him as well. Asking for advice on Reddit, he first wanted to know how he could approach his gay friend Joe on coming out and...

Shocking and disturbing! High School football players coerced their teammates into sexual acts, including oral sex, as part of an abusive hazing ritual, alleges a federal lawsuit. At Lake Zurich High School, northwest of Chicago, two young men have been accused of sexual abuse and acts of degradation in the suit filed by two victims. According to reports, coaches and administrative staff ignored the abuse. Furthermore, there is speculation that the intense hazing rituals have persisted for decades. The Chicago Tribune reports: Antonio Romanucci, a Chicago attorney representing...