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A Glendale third-grade educator who nearly a year ago showed videos celebrating queer 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 College District, a suburban L.A. County educational facility system of about 25,000 students, centers on four compact videos the lecturer prepared to exhibit her class. Three of the videos explain gay event with songs and animation. One features a song called, “Love Is Love,” with the letter that parents and families come in many configurations and what matters most is the devotion between a guardian and a infant. In another, “Queer Kids Stuff,” a cheerful young 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 Lgbtq+ fest Month.” It shows an enthusiastic roundtable discussion with little children led by Canadian TV character Jessi Cruickshank.
In the nearly three-minute video, Cruickshank uses the terms “sexual diversity” and “coming out
Parents, elected officials rally to protect LGBTQ+ rights in Glendale schools
GLENDALE, Calif. (KABC) -- A coalition of educators, parents, elected officials and others hit the steps of Glendale Capital Hall Thursday to advise that anti-LGBTQ+ supporters are targeting the city's educational facility district and trying to win seats in the upcoming school board elections.
"I have been a instructor in this district for two decades and I have never seen anything like this," said Glendale science teacher Cynthia Chan. "I am scared."
Organizers of the event say they've seen a surge in anti-LGBTQ violence and harassment in Glendale, which has left them feeling unsafe in their schools.
"Educators' names, where they work, their room number and other personal information 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 phone call and email."
The outcry against Glendale Unified's policies toward gender individuality and other LGBTQ issues peaked last June when hundreds of protestors gathered outside the district's college boar
After Right-Wing Extremists Instigated Force in My Community, We Organized
June 2, 2023, was an exciting day – my daughter was walking in her elementary institution 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 forceful outside Saticoy Elementary because of the school’s age-appropriate Pride Month assembly.
I was concerned they might object 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
You've seen the waves of anti-LGBTQ+ despise in Florida and other places, but did you understand it is happening right here in Greater Los Angeles? For the past few years, anti-LGBTQ+ hate has been growing, thanks to the influence of Proud 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 Diverse activist and GUSD alum Erik Adamian. And then later in the illustrate, Angie and Alicia will join me to talk about the dynamics and the particulars of the school board race.
Further Information
GUSD Parents for Public Schools website
GUSD Parents for Public Schools twitter
GALAS LGBTQ+ 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
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June 7, 2023
CONTACT:Jorge Reyes Salinas, Equality California
PHONE: (213) 355-3057/MOBILE: (213) 355-3057/EMAIL:press@eqca.org
LOS ANGELES — Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, released the monitoring statement from Executive Director Tony Hoang regarding anti-LGBTQ+ protests which led to the outbreak of violence at a Glendale School Board gathering on June 6:
“Over the past several months, academy 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 College Board meeting, an blameless resolution recognizing Pride Month turned into an opportunity for far-right extremist agitators to continue their hate-filled attacks, leading to an outbreak of violence and multiple arrests.
It is not a coincidence that this happened on the similar day that the Human Rights Campaign declared a national State of Emergency for Queer people in response to a flurry of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation introduced and signed across the country, as well as a rising tide of anti-L