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LGBT youth around the country are standing up anti-gay bullying and school administrators who have allegedly tried to silence gay students.

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.

Kim Williams, assistant director in the Department of Student Intervention Services in Palm Beach County School District, said she had seen the play in Broward and was so impressed that she asked if the students could bring it to Palm Beach.

The father of an openly gay teen who committed suicide earlier this year will walk across the country to raise anti-bullying awareness.

Some parents’ complaints about an Upstate New York middle school allegedly asking female students to ask each other for a kiss as part of an anti-bullying campaign have sparked a firestorm in the right-wing blogosphere.

Amber Hatcher, an openly lesbian 16-year-old, filed a lawsuit on Feb. 26 against the DeSoto County High School arguing the school interfered with her First Amendment rights when they suspended her last year.

Before they were college basketball stars and the future of the WNBA, Brittney Griner, Skylar Diggins and Elena Delle Donne had something else in common: They were all bullied when they were kids.

Gay blogger and activist Dan Savage was right when he decided to share on YouTube his story of growing up gay: it does get better.

The mother of a British teen who committed suicide says her son took his own life because he was constantly bullied by girls who made fun of his sexuality.

A 15-year-old openly gay high school student, who was the victim of anti-gay bullying, died on Sunday after attempting suicide in January.