A student’s efforts to reform a Gay-Straight Alliance at Okeechobee High School were recently denied not because of the nature of the club but because school rules prohibit forming new clubs late in the school year, an attorney for the school district claims. Now the school board’s lawyer calims Gay topic has nothing to do with denying new club in Okeechobee ... TCPalm, FL – also Attorney: Okeechobee High gay club was too late Palm Beach Post ...

Student advocates from across California will meet at the State Capitol next week to speak with legislators and the California Superintendent of Public Instruction about the harassment of LGBT students in California schools. The youth are participating in Queer Youth Advocacy Day 2008, a three-day youth leadership summit co-sponsored by the Gay-Straight Alliance Network, Equality California Institute, Transgender Law Center, and BIENESTAR. LGBT youth leaders and their allies will hold a press conference at the Capitol on May 5, nearly three months after the tragic death of Lawrence “Larry” King, who was shot in the head by a classmate ...