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Last Friday, Chris Sigler (pic), a student at Sequoyah High School, was allegedly shoved and threatened by Principal Maurice Moser simply because he wore a T-shirt in support of a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) club. This incident is one in a series of disturbing actions taken by the Sequoyah High School administration in its attempts to block the formation of a GSA club.

Earlier this year the Hartford County School District - in Maryland - un-blocked several web sites that provide information about gays and lesbians. The move sparked protests from some parents, who say they should have been consulted before the change was made. Previously, sites like the Human Rights Campaign were blocked from students.

Baltimore's ABC2News.com reports:

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."