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Girls at a middle school in Pasadena won't be relegated to only cheering for the boys now.

Two East Texas softball coaches and the Kilgore school district are facing charges, filed in civil court by the mother of a 16-year-old student, for invading her daughter’s right to privacy after they outed her daughter.

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit against a Utah school district for its decision to remove a picture book featuring lesbian mothers from the shelves of elementary school libraries.

A school district in Austin, Texas, has put the kibosh on a play about a pair of male penguins who raised an abandoned chick, saying the content is inappropriate for school-age children.

Ebonie Richardson is a 16-year-old lesbian student who challenged the Anoka-Hennepin School District with a lawsuit that just ended with new protections designed to protect students like her from bullying.

A sixth student targeted by anti-LGBT bullying in Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin School District has sued, claiming that administrators turned a blind eye to the abuse she suffered. According to a complaint filed Tuesday by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the student was subjected to "a constant, daily barrage of taunts from other students, who called her names like 'faggot,' 'dyke,' 'he/she' and 'it.'"

The Kilgore school district admitted no wrongdoing but agreed to pay $77,500 to settle the suit by Skye Wyatt, who says softball coaches breached her privacy by telling her mother about her lesbian relationship.

South Florida's Broward County School District recently decided to recognize October's LGBT History Month in hopes of reducing bullying on its campuses.

The Mississippi school district that canceled a high school prom because a lesbian student wanted to bring her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo was ordered to pay $81,000 in legal fees to the student, Constance McMillen. U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson signed the order on Monday, ordering the Itawamba County School District pay the fees to McMillen.

Hundreds protest Montana school district's new sex-ed policies.

The Mississippi high school that allegedly sent lesbian student Constance McMillen to a fake prom while most of her classmates celebrated in another location denies the charge. This spring, McMillen sued the Itawamba County School District over its policy that banned her from bringing a same-sex date to the April prom. The district canceled the event rather than allow her to attend with her girlfriend. A U.S. district judge ruled that the school district had violated her rights, but the judge did not force to district to hold the prom.

The Mississippi school that chose to cancel prom rather than let Constance McMillen attend with her girlfriend will change its discrimination policy and pay the teen $35,000 in damages. The Itawamba School District has agreed to update its anti-discrimination policy to include sexual orientation, a first for a school district in Mississippi. The district will also pay McMillen’s court fees and $35,000 in damages.

Parents were in an uproar Thursday night, as the Paradise Valley, Ariz., school district voted to unanimously fire a lesbian high school principal.

A Florida high school teacher is fighting her school district over its poor handling of a parent's accusation that she turned his daughter into a lesbian.

The mother of a gay Minnesota teen who committed suicide and was harassed in a school district now under federal investigation is asking Rep. Michele Bachmann to speak out against bullying. Tammy Aaberg, whose 15-year-old son, Justin (pictured), hanged himself in 2010, will deliver a petition Thursday with 130,000 signatures to Bachmann, whose district covers much of the Anoka-Hennepin School District, where Justin was a student.

A lesbian high school couple in Champlin, Minn., were told that they cannot walk into a school dance together after Anoka-Hennepin school district administrators changed rules to make students walk in one at a time instead of in pairs.