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Education LGBTQA+ LPS

Former Custodian Says Lincoln Public Schools Fired Her for Being Transgender

A former Lincoln Public Schools custodian who was fired at the start of this year has filed a charge with the Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission over alleged sex discrimination. Michelle Howard states that she was harassed and discriminated against for being a transgender woman, resulting in the abrupt termination of her 17 year career with […]

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Education Elections LGBTQA+

Boo at the School: How LGBTQ youth have become the target of a massive fear-mongering campaign

With the impending midterm elections, and a view toward 2024, transgender issues have received a lot of attention in campaigns and the media recently. Particularly at question is the treatment of minors with gender dysphoria and whether or not public schools should support transgender kids. However, the numbers don’t make sense for how much space […]

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Education Elections LGBTQA+

Protect Nebraska Children will Hold Christofascist Event in Omaha Next Week

A group of Nebraska rightwing Christian fundamentalists who oppose human rights is barreling toward the November Board of Education elections funded by mystery money and fueled by anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theories. The extremists last held a prominent event in Nebraska about a month ago, and are now planning a “God’s Country Rally” and fundraiser for Marni […]

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Education LGBTQA+ NEGOP

The Queerness of Gen Z is Being Used to Promote School Privatization

The queerness of Gen Z is being used as a wedge issue to promote school privatization. Nebraska is one of only five states to resist charter schools and is consistently one of the highest ranked states for public education. But homophobia and transphobia run rampant here, and the effort to use prejudice to attack public […]

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LGBTQA+ Lincoln City Council Nebraska Politics

Community Statement on the Fairness Ordinance

For the second time this year Lincoln is facing the prospect of holding a vote on the civil rights of its LGBT2QIA+ population. This issue is something many in our city, and in our community have been working on since the city’s first vote on the matter in 1982. That year Lincoln voters rejected LGBT2QIA+ […]

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LGBTQA+ Lincoln City Council

LGBT Consensus is Neither Possible Nor Necessary to Move Forward with Lincoln Ordinance

I’m George Wolf, an 82 year-old gay man, who’s been working on bringing a nondiscrimination ordinance to Lincoln since the early 1980s.  For the past five years, a small number of people–gay, straight, and transgender–have worked hard to have Lincoln join the hundreds of municipalities that have ended discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender […]

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LGBTQA+

Why LGBT advocates oppose the petition to put nondiscrimination protections on the ballot

A group calling itself “Let Lincoln Vote” is now collecting signatures to put an update to Lincoln’s anti-discrimination protections on the ballot for Lincoln voters. You may have heard of a similar effort recently from the Nebraska Family Alliance, a hate group. Many leaders in the queer and trans community are saying both of these […]

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Education LGBTQA+

Alleged Sex Pest Works at G.I. Church that Screened “Mind Polluters” Anti-Sex Ed Film

From the “Every Rightwing Accusation is an Admission” files… On April 11, Peace Lutheran Church in Grand Island, Nebraska, hosted a screening of Mind Polluters, the anti-education conspiracy theory video that asserts that public schools are full of pedophiles who groom children. The conclusion you are supposed to draw from all this Q style nonsense […]

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Catholic Bullshit Creep of Fascism Education LGBTQA+

Pius X is Indoctrinating Their Students With Anti-Trans Homework

Why is Pius assigning homework penned by the leader of a known hate group, and pushed by an anti-queer college organization founded by an antisemite?

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Anti-Semitism Creeping Fascism Education LGBTQA+ NEGOP TPUSA

Alt-Right Summit to be Hosted at Creighton

We at Seeing Red were hardly through our morning coffee before we learned of an event being hosted tomorrow at Creighton University and billed as the “Take Back Nebraska Summit ’22.” Our interest was piqued immediately because there was something about a cocktail reception. Unfortunately, cocktails will not be strong enough to recover from the […]

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