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California lawmakers vote to end ban on travel to anti-LGBTQ states

Written on 13 Sep, 2023 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 11 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN California lawmakers voted this week to lift a ban on state-funded travel to more than half of U.S. states, each of which California officials accuse of discriminating against LGBTQ individuals.  The proposal would replace California’s travel ban... (Continue reading)

SLO police probe burning of gay pride flag

Written on 2 Jun, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 30 comments

San Luis Obispo police have launched a hate crime investigation into the alleged burning of a gay pride flag. On Thursday, the police department received a report about the burning of a gay pride flag within the city limits. It... (Continue reading)

SLO teacher resigns as community protests letter about gays

Written on 12 May, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 51 comments

A San Luis Obispo teacher who penned a letter to the editor quoting a bible passage critical of homosexuality resigned Thursday as Central Coast residents voiced outrage over alleged shaming of the LGBT community. Also, the San Luis Coastal Unified... (Continue reading)

Bible quotes about gays in SLO teacher’s letter cause outrage

Written on 11 May, 2017 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 67 comments

A letter to the editor written by a San Luis Obispo High School special education teacher and published by the school’s student news site has prompted outrage on the Central Coast over alleged shaming of the LGBT community. The letter... (Continue reading)

California students and athletes to skip trips due to LGBT law

Written on 21 Feb, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 10 comments

As a result of a new California law, numerous university students may miss an upcoming research conference in Tennessee and talks about a UC Berkeley-University of Kansas men’s basketball series have been called off. [LA Times] The law imposes a... (Continue reading)

‘Dangerous faggot’ to speak at Cal Poly, queer students protest

Written on 30 Nov, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 46 comments

As part of the “Dangerous Faggot Tour,” openly gay man and prominent conservative activist Milo Yiannopoulos is due to speak before a packed-house at Cal Poly’s Spanos Theater on Jan. 31. Cal Poly’s Queer Student Union is trying to shut... (Continue reading)

California to be first state to teach LGBT history in schools

Written on 18 Jul, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 50 comments

California second graders will soon learn that some families have two moms or two dads. The State Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday to adopt new K-12 curricula that incorporates LGBT history into public school classes. [The Guardian] The vote... (Continue reading)

Man caught bringing guns, explosives to California gay pride parade

Written on 13 Jun, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 11 comments

While a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando Florida was still unfolding, an Indiana man was found to be in possession of guns and explosives near a gay pride parade that was soon to begin in West Hollywood.... (Continue reading)

Gay Cal Poly student accuses Mike Winn of homophobia

Written on 27 May, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 35 comments

Cal Poly professor and former and Nipomo CSD director, Mike Winn, told a queer student and diversity activist that gay marriage is a “grave moral mistake” and that gay people suffer in the afterlife, according to a Title IX discrimination... (Continue reading)

Should California employees go to ‘anti-gay’ states?

Written on 7 Mar, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 31 comments

A California assemblyman has introduced a bill that would ban state-funded travel to states that permit discrimination based on sexual orientation. The bill targets a host of states that have adopted religious freedom laws. [Sac Bee] Evan Low, a Democrat... (Continue reading)