Arkansas high school refuses to publish gay student’s bio

Administrators at Sheridan High School, located just south of Little Rock, Ark., are refusing to include an interview with openly gay student Taylor Ellis in this year’s yearbook. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), is calling on Sheridan Superintendent Brenda Haynes and Principal Rodney Williams to reverse the decision. Taylor’s bio reads: “I use to be…

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Morgan State fraternity on probation until 2015 after gay student rejected

In a stinging rebuke, officials at Morgan State University, a historically black college in Baltimore, Md., have placed its Kappa Alpha Psi chapter on probation until fall of 2015 after a student complained that he was rejected because he is gay. Brian Stewart, 20, a former White House intern, filed the complaint in late October after…

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