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High Schooler censored by school admin over saying he’s gay

When Tyler Johnson was called into Tully High School’s principal Mike O’Brien’s office on January 6, he was caught off guard. Johnson had recently been selected by his Syracuse, New York school’s newspaper Knight Insight to be highlighted in its…

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BYU students can no longer light Y Mountain in rainbow colors

Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah announced that university-owned portions of the famed Y Mountain are now officially off-limits for student protests and demonstrations. Last year a group of LGBTQ+ BYU students lit up the Y in rainbow colors to…

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Report: Conversion therapy disinformation is thriving online

Search engine and social media companies are failing to root out disinformation about widely debunked conversion therapy, according to two new reports released January 12. The issue is so rampant online that researchers and report co-authors Wendy Via and Heidi Beirich…