Florida high school teacher loses job for using student's preferred name
Melissa Calhoun is believed to be the first teacher to be fired for using a student's preferred name.
April 10, 2025
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August 16, 2012
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Tackling football's closet
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Slouching Toward Paula Abdul
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Eurovision rocked
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May 24, 2006
10 Things to Know: Sally Ride
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November 19, 2013
Sex, Objectification, and Writing Trans Nonfiction
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Op-ed: We Can All Use A History Lesson
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April 11, 2014
Here and now
Do you want the new gay and lesbian TV channels--Here and the soon-to-be Logo--to be the best thing ever? Good. Then it's time for all of us to bite our tongues and start supporting them. Now
April 15, 2005
Heavy hitter
With a new book of collected essays, activist, author, and radio host Michelangelo Signorile throws out his latest challenge to anybody--make that everybody--who stands in the way of LGBT rights
August 29, 2005
Sing, You Can't
Week 2 of 2008's American Idol auditions means the entire nation is one week closer to finding out who the next person to get dropped from a major record label will be.
January 25, 2008
Opinions vary over Logo's rejection of UCC ad
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