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ACLU/SC and OC High School Students File Suit to Stop District's Unequal Treatment of Gay and Lesbian Students (09/07/2005)

ACLU Sues Southern California School District to Stop Unequal Treatment of Gay and Lesbian Students (09/07/2005)
LOS ANGELES -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, an Orange County high school senior, and the Gay-Straight Alliance Network filed a lawsuit today against the Garden Grove Unified School District in an effort to stop discrimination and harassment of gay and lesbian students on campus.

ACLU Asks Judge to Reopen Kentucky Gay-Straight Alliance Case (07/06/2005)
ASHLAND, KY -- The American Civil Liberties Union today asked a federal judge to reopen a lawsuit it brought two years ago on behalf of several students who had sought to form a gay-straight alliance (GSA) at Boyd County High School. In a motion filed today, the ACLU points to failures by the school district to keep up its end of the agreement to provide a mandatory training focused on sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination.

ACLU and Los Angeles School District Settle Anti-Gay Harassment Case (06/29/2005)
LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the law firm Millbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy announced today that they have reached a settlement in their lawsuit charging that teachers and staff at Washington Preparatory High School regularly harassed gay and lesbian students.

ACLU Secures Promise from Missouri High School to Stop Censoring Student's Gay-Supportive T-Shirts (06/23/2005)
NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union announced today that it has secured assurances from a Missouri high school that it will no longer censor a student from wearing t-shirts expressing her support for gay rights. In return, the ACLU has agreed to end a censorship lawsuit that began in April.

ACLU Tells Federal Court That Mandatory Anti-Gay Harassment Training Does Not Violate Students' Freedom of Religion (04/28/2005)
ASHLAND, KY -- In papers filed today in federal court, the American Civil Liberties Union argues that requiring students to undergo a court-ordered anti-harassment training at Boyd County High School does not violate their rights to free exercise of religion. Today's filing is a response to a motion for preliminary injunction by a national conservative legal organization seeking to shut down an anti-harassment training ordered by a federal judge in an earlier ACLU case.

ACLU Exposes Censorship at High Schools in Ohio and Missouri (04/06/2005)
NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union today took on schools in two different states for violating the First Amendment rights of students who wish to wear t-shirts expressing their support for gay rights issues.

ACLU Asks Court to Let Students Join in Kentucky Anti-Gay Harassment Training Case (04/01/2005)
ASHLAND, KY - The American Civil Liberties Union today asked a federal court to let several former students join a Kentucky school district in fighting a lawsuit aimed at shutting down a court-ordered anti-harassment training. The school district agreed to implement the training last year after a federal judge found that there is a widespread problem with anti-gay harassment in the school, where students in an English class once stated that they needed to ""take all the fucking faggots out in the back woods and kill them."" The new lawsuit, brought by an anti-gay legal organization, claims that the training violates the free speech rights of students who are opposed to it.

ACLU Applauds Georgia Students' Gay-Straight Alliance Victory (03/22/2005)
ATLANTA, GA - The American Civil Liberties Union today announced that officials at White County High School in Cleveland, Georgia have agreed to drop their attempts to stop students from forming a gay-straight alliance club. The agreement comes after several weeks of negotiation between the school and the ACLU of Georgia.

Virginia School's Move to Block Gay Speaker is Discriminatory, Says ACLU (03/10/2005)
MIDLOTHIAN, VA - The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia today asked Manchester High School in Chesterfield County to allow gay author Greg Herren to speak at the school tomorrow afternoon as originally planned. Herren's invitation to address the members of the school's Gay-Straight Alliance and other students was rescinded last week by Principal Peter Koste, who claimed that ""concerns from the community"" and possible ""inappropriate"" content led him to cancel the talk.

ACLU Sues Missouri High School for Censoring Gay Student (11/23/2004)
WEBB CITY, MO - The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal court today against a high school that twice punished a student for wearing t-shirts bearing gay pride messages and banned him from wearing the shirts to school again. Attorneys for 16-year-old Brad Mathewson also asked for a court order to stop the school from further censoring his speech.

ACLU Scolds Missouri High School for Censoring Gay Student (10/29/2004)
WEBB CITY, MO - The American Civil Liberties Union has come to the defense of a high school junior who was sent home twice from school for wearing t-shirts bearing gay pride messages. The principal cited concerns that other students may be offended by the shirts worn by Brad Mathewson.

ACLU Defends Utah High School Students Censored for Wearing Gay-Themed Anti-Smoking T-Shirts (05/11/2004)
SALT LAKE CITY - The American Civil Liberties Union today came to the defense of a group of Utah high school students who were punished for wearing ""Queers Kick Ash"" t-shirts to school. School officials also threatened to ban the school's gay-straight alliance, and dozens of students are planning to wear the t-shirts today in protest.

ACLU Sues North Carolina High School for Silencing Gay Student (04/27/2004)
NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union today asked a state superior court to end school officials' attempts to censor a gay student's campaign posters promoting his run for student body president. The posters - one with the slogan, ""Queer Eye for Hunt High"" and another reading, ""Gay Guys Know Everything"" - were removed by administrators at James Baxter Hunt Jr. High School in Wilson, North Carolina.

No "Queer Eye" at North Carolina High School (04/26/2004)
NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union has come to the aid of a gay student at James Baxter Hunt, Jr. High School in Wilson, North Carolina, criticizing the school for removing two posters promoting his campaign for student body president and demanding that it take steps to remedy its illegal censorship.

ACLU Asks Kansas Supreme Court to Reconsider 17-Year Prison Sentence of Bisexual Teenager (03/01/2004)
TOPEKA, KS - Arguing that an appeals court erred gravely in upholding a 17-year prison sentence for a bisexual teenager, the American Civil Liberties Union today asked the Kansas Supreme Court to rehear the case of Matthew Limon.

ACLU Wins Settlement for Kentucky School's Gay-Straight Alliance (02/03/2004)
ASHLAND, KY - The American Civil Liberties Union today announced the end of a year-long lawsuit it brought on behalf of several students who had sought to form a gay-straight alliance (GSA) club at Boyd County High School. The settlement requires that the district treat all student clubs equally and conduct an anti-harassment training for all district staff as well as all students in high school and middle school.

Settlement of California Lawsuit Aims at Protecting Gay Students; School District Agrees to Train Staff and Students (01/06/2004)
SAN FRANCISCO - The Morgan Hill Unified School District, where lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students have suffered years of harassment and discrimination, including physical violence, has agreed to a wide-ranging staff and student training program and policy protections. The settlement ends a five-year-long federal lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

Wyoming School That Had Police Remove Same-Sex Couple from Homecoming Dance Agrees to Let Same-Sex Couples Attend All Future Dances (12/09/2003)
BIG PINEY, WY -- In response to a letter sent by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of two girls who were marched out of a high school homecoming dance by police, the Sublette County School District has agreed that same-sex couples will no longer be excluded from school dances, the ACLU announced today.