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TheatreLAB & Firehouse Theatre bring cult classic ‘Heathers’ to the stage this summer
Welcome to the candy store, where as in any typical high school, you’ll find alcohol, homework deadlines, sex, homecoming rallies, and murder. Yes, murder. This summer, Firehouse Theatre and TheatreLAB is putting up Heathers: The Musical, written by Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy, a cult rock musical based on the 1989 classic film Heathers, starring [...]
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Pennsylvania school suspends students over Chick-fil-A t-shirt backlash
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania is investigating.
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Bullies Target Openly Gay Teen’s Home With Anti-gay Slur
VIENNA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A 16-year-old Michigan teen has become the target of bullies because he is gay, and now his home has been targeted as well. Melanie Peabody says bullies spray-painted an anti-gay slur on the exterior of their home with an arrow pointing to her son Levi’s bedroom, reports WEYI-TV. She and her husband tried to wipe away [...]
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Arkansas High School Censors Yearbook Profile of Gay Student’s Coming Out
SHERIDAN, Ark. — Administrators at an Arkansas high school are refusing to allow an interview with an openly gay student in this year’s yearbook because he discusses his sexual orientation. Taylor Ellis, a junior at Sheridan High School in Sheridam, Ark., was among six students slated to be profiled in the school’s 2014 yearbook, and chose to [...]
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Prosecution Deferred for Transgender Student Facing Battery Charge
HERCULES, Calif. — A transgender teenager facing a misdemeanor battery charge after defending herself from school bullies was in court Thursday and entered into an agreement that allows her to participate in a restorative justice program, which would defer prosecution on the battery charge. Judge Thomas M. Maddock ordered Jewlyes Gutierrez, a 16-year-old sophomore at Hercules High [...]
