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The ACLU has intervened at Big Bear High School because its sophomore class president was ordered to change her T-shirt expressing opposition to California's Proposition 8.

In yet another judicial decision upholding the rights of students to form and participate in Gay-Straight Alliances, a federal judge ruled Tuesday night that Okeechobee High School in Florida must allow a GSA the same access it allows other non-curricular clubs.

The ruling also stated that GSAs do not interfere with abstinence-only education and that schools must take into account the well being of non-heterosexual students.

The Associated Press is reporting on the principal of a South Carolina high school who plans to resign because his school district supports the formation of an outreach group for gay students and their friends.

The ACLU is defending two gay students who were outed by their high school principal. The principal wanted to know the names of students who were couples - heterosexual and homosexual - because she was concerned about public displays of affection.

She posted the entire list of students in public, which effectively outed two boys who were attempting to keep their sexuality private. Student relationships were revealed to other students, teachers and their parents.

Nicholas and Andrew had just started dating each other.

Bill O'Reilly took time during one of his recent shows to discuss the Illinois lesbian couple voted "cutest couple" at their high school.

O'Reilly believes the students at the school voted for the girls because the student body - as a whole - wanted to play a prank on the teachers and administrators of the school.

He said, "the kids voted...this couple the cutest couple to tweak the adults...to cause trouble, to make an issue of the yearbook."

The Massachusetts high school daughter of Amy Contrada - from the homophobic group MassResistance - has come out of the closet.

Claudia Contrada (17) is starring in the Acton High School Production of the Laramie Project although her mother helped organize a movement against the play.

It started with one boy wearing a pink polo shirt on the first day of school. He was harassed with homophobic slurs and threatened with assault by a group of six to 10 older students who mocked him for wearing pink. But two classmates watching the display of homophobia decided to take action in a provocative - and inspirational - way.

David Shepherd and Travis Price went to a discount store and purchased pink clothing to wear to school, then emailed all their friends - asking them to do the same.