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A Glendale third-grade teacher who nearly a year ago showed videos celebrating male lover pride to her students has been involuntarily transferred from her classroom for safety reasons after receiving threats — a local chapter in the nation’s furious debate over what should be taught in schools about gender identity.
The conflict in the Glendale Unified School District, a suburban L.A. County institution system of about 25,000 students, centers on four short videos the instructor prepared to show her class. Three of the videos explain gay event with songs and animation. One features a ballad called, “Love Is Love,” with the message that parents and families enter in many configurations and what matters most is the love between a guardian and a minor. In another, “Queer Kids Stuff,” a cheerful new narrator celebrates pride.
The video that has spurred the most objection — and one that some parents said crossed the line of age appropriateness — is “Talking to Kids about Pride Month.” It shows an enthusiastic roundtable discussion with childish children led by Canadian TV personality Jessi Cruickshank.
In the nearly three-minute video, Cruickshank uses the terms “sexual diversity” and “coming out
You've seen the waves of anti-LGBTQ+ hate in Florida and other places, but did you know it is happening right here in Greater Los Angeles? For the past several years, anti-LGBTQ+ hate has been growing, thanks to the influence of Arrogant Boys, J6 insurrectionists, and right-wing provocateurs with groups like LibsofTikTok and Gays Against Groomers. And now, two of the leaders of the anti-LGBTQ+ movement, which has been terrorizing parents, students, teachers and school officials, are running for seats on the Glendale School Board.
In this episode, Mike talks about what has happened over the past few years with parent Angie Givant, teacher Alicia Harris and LGBTQ+ activist and GUSD alum Erik Adamian. And then later in the show, Angie and Alicia will join me to talk about the dynamics and the particulars of the school board race.
Further Information
GUSD Parents for General Schools website
GUSD Parents for Public Schools twitter
GALAS Gay Armenian Society
WNLA: Who is Really Behind the Anti-LGBTQ+ protests in LA? (June 12, 2023)
Guardian: ‘Chaos campaign’: how an Armenian enclave became the center of an anti-LGBTQ+ battle
Daily Beast: How Far-Right Extremists
Parents, elected officials rally to protect Homosexual rights in Glendale schools
GLENDALE, Calif. (KABC) -- A coalition of educators, parents, elected officials and others hit the steps of Glendale City Hall Thursday to warn that anti-LGBTQ+ supporters are targeting the city's school district and trying to triumph seats in the upcoming school board elections.
"I have been a teacher in this district for two decades and I have never seen anything fond of this," said Glendale science teacher Cynthia Chan. "I am scared."
Organizers of the event say they've seen a surge in anti-LGBTQ force and harassment in Glendale, which has left them feeling unsafe in their schools.
"Educators' names, where they work, their room number and other personal facts have been posted and shared on social media," said Taline Arsenian, president of the Glendale Teachers Association. "There have even been threats of physical violence by device call and email."
The outcry against Glendale Unified's policies toward gender identity and other LGBTQ issues peaked last June when hundreds of protestors gathered outside the district's institution boar
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June 7, 2023
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LOS ANGELES — Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, released the following statement from Executive Director Tony Hoang regarding anti-LGBTQ+ protests which led to the outbreak of abuse at a Glendale School Board encounter on June 6:
“Over the past several months, school board meetings across the country have been turned into arenas for anti-LGBTQ+ political propaganda. Sadly, this is also happening in California where, at last night’s Glendale Unified Academy Board meeting, an innocent resolution knowing Pride Month turned into an opportunity for far-right extremist agitators to persist their hate-filled attacks, leading to an outbreak of force and multiple arrests.
It is not a coincidence that this happened on the same day that the Human Rights Campaign declared a national State of Emergency for LGBTQ+ people in response to a flurry of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation introduced and signed across the country, as good as a rising tide of anti-L
After Right-Wing Extremists Instigated Hostility in My Community, We Organized
June 2, 2023, was an exciting day – my daughter was walking in her elementary university graduation ceremony that afternoon. It was also a bit scary as we didn’t know if something might happen at her ceremony because right-wing extremists had been targeting Glendale Unified School District (GUSD) for teaching a state-mandated LGBTQ+ curriculum. They had pressured the Glendale PTA and most schools to cancel Pride Month events and that morning, some had participated in a protest that became stormy outside Saticoy Elementary because of the school’s age-appropriate Pride Month assembly.
I was concerned they might complain at my daughter’s graduation ceremony. I identify as bisexual, my daughter is a lesbian, and my brother is gay. This issue is personal to us. Maybe it is the innocence of the young, but thankfully my daughter wasn’t very worried and wore rainbow colors as she had planned. I, on the other hand, showed up in my rainbow shawl and earrings with a feeling of trepidation. Are extremists here? Will any confront me for wearing rainbow accessories?
I proudly watched my courageous daughter walk