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Buried in the proposed rewrite of the nation’s massive education law are protections for gay and lesbian students that its supporters liken to the landmark 1972 protections for the rights of female athletes in high school and college.

A student running for the University o Huston-Downtown’s vice president was the victim of a smear campaign that revealed his HIV status to the public.

Tired of funding schools that exclude gays, Georgia lawmakers will introduce legislation that prevents private schools that discriminate from receiving funding.

A southern Missouri school district has rescinded a policy that prohibited same-sex couples from attending prom, a day after a national anti-discrimination group threatened to sue.

The University of Iowa has become the nation’s first public university to include optional questions about sexual orientation and gender identity on its application, a move hailed by advocates hoping to improve the college experience for LGBT youth.

The parents of a gay Michigan teenager said he took his own life last month because he suffered frequent bullying inside and outside of school. The high school’s superintendent, however, says staff was not informed of the bullying.

A young gay man from North Carolina has been charged with murdering a 43-year-old man in an Alabama trailer park.

Students from a high school in CelinOhio weren’t allowed to wear pro-gay rights t-shirts. Officials said they were too political. The students claim that classmates have worn Tees with pro-life and Mitt Romney messages.

A former high school teacher from Michigan faces up to 20 years in prison for having had sex with several male teenage students and not telling them that he was HIV positive.

A Southeast Texas trade-school principal allegedly cancelled a long-running cosmetology program after seeing a male student whom he perceived as gay.