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Lambda Legal has filed suit on behalf of a 16-year-old lesbian student in Florida after the school suspended her for participating in the annual Day of Silence last year.

On April 15, 2011 individuals from across Wisconsin will join to make a statewide commitment to put an end to LGBT bullying, homophobia and harassment. It is time that we take action and send a clear message that bullying and violence will not be tolerated in our schools.  Because of this, we will gather at our state capitol, united, as students, faculty, staff, family, friends and community members, to collectively, on the National Day of Silence, take a stand to Break the Silence.

Today marks the 17th annual Day of Silence, where LGBT students and allies sustain a vow of silence calling attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools. A record 8,000 schools are participating, but that doesn't mean every student knows how it works, or what it all means. The Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network, or GLSEN, has been helping schools and students organize the Day of Silence for more than a decade. With their help, thousands of students have learned about the effects of bullying. Here are a few things to know about today's festivities.

Giselle's story is seen in a new video campaign called "An Honest Conversation," which focuses exclusively on LGBTQ issues in the Latino community. “There is a lot of ignorance and also a language barrier,” says Giselle, describing what it's like to be a young lesbian in the Latino community. It was produced by the website Cuéntame to create a direct, sober, honest and often painful portrayal of stories from LGBTQ Latino youth, their friends, families and the community in general.

The anti-LGBT group Focus on the Family organized the event in response to GLSEN's 'sexual activism in classrooms.'

This week life-changing secrets are revealed, thanks to...pot brownies?

The hashtag, #sharedgirlhood, brought us all to the same place: being female always meant being less in the world.

Lindsay Lohan’s former girlfriend Samantha Ronson has remained mostly mum since their highly publicized split over a year ago and through all of Lindsay’s literal trials and tribulations Samantha has refrained from saying much at all publicly – until now. DJ to the stars, Sam, says she still loves Lindsay as a person but that Lindsay’s fame and the constant barrage of paparazzi made their relationship more of a “headache” than it was worth.

Nearly 15 years after her landmark book 'Serving in Silence,' Grethe Cammermeyer weighs in on DADT, Barack Obama and Prop. 8.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison LGBT Campus Center is fed up with the name-calling, the violence, the suicides, the hate. They filmed this video on Bascom Hill at UW Madison to show the impact of bullying on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals. 

Students across the country are reporting a mix of positive and negative reactions to the annual in-school protest known as the Day of Silence, honoring those who have been bullied for not fitting in. Led by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, the Day of Silence has evolved over the years as students can report in real time about any resistance or negativity from teachers and their peers.

I walked into a conversation this afternoon about the latest LGBT bullying related suicide. I quickly found out that it was a Minnesota teen who died on Saturday morning. With these basic facts, my mind immediately went on high alert. I grew up in Minnesota -- I know plenty of young people who live there.

Gay Day of Silence to support nationwide anti-bullying agenda; opponents claim protest is a waste of taxpayer money.