All posts tagged "lgbtq"
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Peet GSA meeting Mondays during Tiger Time
GSAs, or Gender and Sexuality Alliances, are an important tool for LGBTQ+ students and allies to gather with one another and connect. “I know it’s...
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Young leader embraces role to connect with midwestern jewish, LGBTQ youth
Meet Issac Young, the new Youth Engagement manager in the Midwest for Keshet. Keshet is a LGBT+ Jewish grassroots organization that works toward the inclusion...
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Young adult fiction books by queer authors
Representation is extremely important for communities like LGBTQ+ in all media, not just film and television, which is where most peoples thoughts go. Novels are...
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Current LGBTQ+ news updates
In the last few months, there has been a lot of news. All of it is important, but a lot of LGBT+ news got overshadowed...
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President calling for LGBTQ+ protections
President Joe Biden issued an executive order on Jan. 20 to combat discrimation based on sexual orientation and gender identity. He had also lifted a...
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Sex Education for the LGBTQ+ Community
For many students Sex-Ed is a class taken for granted. A class they are forced to take where they are lectured about safe sex. But...
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Our View | ‘They’ got it right on Word of the Year
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has selected “they” as the word of 2019. The word they has been used as a singular pronoun by people who identify...
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Our View | Standing Together | Allies at Board meeting make big Difference
LGBTQ+ allies showed up at the Board of Education’s meeting to support Peet Junior High’s GSA Difference. More than 100 allies attended the meeting, filing...
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Our View | No home for harrassment in halls of Cedar Falls
The new sophomores glided through the Cedar Falls High School halls with big smiles on their faces as they rubbed their hands against the new...
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Summer slip-ups: President Trump faces five tests this fall
The Trump administration has almost closed out its first summer in office, and it will be one that no one forgets.Trump’s disastrous summer of 2017...
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30 students square off in Holmes chess tournament
Thirty Holmes Junior High students recently squared off in a chess tournament in ninth-grade science teacher Maria Hoekstra’s classroom during Tiger Time. The winner was seventh-grader Alexander Fuchtman who...
