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Gay youth

Since spring 2020, Minneapolis schools have been using an online surveillance application called Gaggle to spy on students’ online activity. The software flags LGBTQ-related terms and has already reported outed at least one LGBTQ student to their parents.
(LGBTQ Nation, US, October 16, 2021)
A gay teenager who is just 14-years-old was punched and “stamped on the head” by a gang in St Helens, England, stoking further fear over an uptick of anti-LGBT+ violence in the area.
( Josh Milton, Pink News, UK, Sep. 1, 2021)
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When 12-year-old Brody Neville came out to his friends last Spring most of them stopped being friends with him. He did not want to celebrate his birthday this year thinking that he had no one to celebrate it with. His mom, Leah O’Donnell spoke to CBC News telling them how sad and alone her son felt,
(Robert Dominic, Instinct Magazine, US, August 31, 2021)
Jason Cianciotto and his husband are suing the New York City Department of Education (DoE), the Board of Education (BoE) for New York City Public Schools, and several employees at the school their adopted son attended between 2017 and 2019.
(Robert Dominic, Instinct Magazine, Augest 2, 2021)
There has been an update in the case of Tyler (a 12 year old gay boy from Atlanta), in which three (heterosexual) adults have been arrested.
( Rahmel Reid, Instinct, US, July 20, 2021)
Bryce Dershem said (heterosexual) school faculty told him the speech was not his "therapy session" and to remove all references to being gay and his victory over mental health issues.
(Donald Padgett, Out Magazine, US, June 25, 2021)