Fwd: FW: Protecting LGBT students, suit filed today

[Nevin Rao]

hella old but fyi

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From: Billy Curtis <bil...@berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:13 PM
Subject: FW: Protecting LGBT students, suit filed today
To: laven...@lists.berkeley.edu
Cc: Chancellor's LGBT Adviosry <cac...@bspace.berkeley.edu>

FYI

 

From: Richard Cohen, SPLC [mailto:sp...@newsletter.splcenter.org]
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 12:11 PM
To: bil...@berkeley.edu
Subject: Protecting LGBT students, suit filed today

 

July 21, 2011 Dear Friend, Today, we've filed a federal lawsuit to protect gay, lesbian and transgender students in a Minnesota school district where at least four LGBT students have died by suicide in the past two years. The Anoka-Hennepin school district near Minneapolis is "ground zero" in our fight to stop the rampant bullying of LGBT students. Physical and verbal abuse has been allowed to flourish under the district's so-called "neutrality" policy. The misguided policy stigmatizes LGBT students — casting them as pariahs who are not welcome in the school community, a message that encourages their abusers. This bullying has devastating consequences, as the heartbreaking suicides in Anoka-Hennepin and elsewhere illustrate. You can learn more about the situation in the Anoka-Hennepin school district in a special CNN investigative piece scheduled to air at 8 p.m. EDT on Sunday, July 24. Our work would not be possible without the support of people like you. Together, we can make a difference in the lives of children who are suffering from bigotry and injustice. Sincerely, J. Richard Cohen President, Southern Poverty Law Center You can donate to the Southern Poverty Law Center online.  Follow SPLC on Twitter.  Become our fan on Facebook. We welcome your feedback. Contact us online. Or by mail: Southern Poverty Law Center 400 Washington Ave. Montgomery, AL 36104 If you no longer wish to receive e-mails from us, please send an e-mail to: unsub_center-ctg0aib6y...@newsletter.splcenter.org

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Nevin G. Rao

B.S. Candidate, December 2011
Environmental Economics and Policy
University of California, Berkeley 

Co-Chair | Chancellor's Advisory Committee on LGBT Issues at Cal

Co-Founder | Khush, a South-Asian LGBTQ Space at Cal | khush.b...@gmail.com 

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