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Tue Apr 23, 2019, 03:52 PM Apr 2019

McCormick Jr. High Gay Straight Alliance students told no more rainbows, LGBTQ paraphernalia


McCormick Junior High Gay Straight Alliance students were given this notice Wednesday afternoon. They were then told they wouldn't be allowed to to have or wear any LGBTQ paraphernalia on school grounds. Courtesy.



CHEYENNE – Students in McCormick Junior High’s Gay Straight Alliance club were told Wednesday afternoon they were no longer allowed to have or wear any LGBTQ paraphernalia on school grounds, including flags, shirts, pins and bracelets.

Students were told they would not even be allowed to wear rainbow colors to school, according to a student and several parents.

This is the latest response to racist and anti-gay flyers found in the school last month that read “it’s great to be straight it’s not OK to be gay,” “black lives only matter because if it weren’t for them who would pick our cotton,” and “Join the KKK,” with “the confederate kid club” in parentheses beneath it.

Around 2:20 p.m. Wednesday, roughly 20-25 students from the GSA club were called out of class and sent to a room where three faculty awaited them, Ashlynn Kercher, an eighth-grade member of McCormick’s GSA said.

Read more: https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/mccormick-gsa-students-told-no-more-rainbows-lgbtq-paraphernalia/article_78fe29a4-a309-5322-bc5f-910b03e85461.html

Cross-posted in the LGBT Group.


Photo: http://www.towleroad.com/2019/04/school-bans-rainbows/
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