Cenk Uygur
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School Calls LGBT Shirt "Gang-Related”
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October 23, 2015
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8:07Now Playing"Within a couple months, two lesbian students on opposite sides of the country have both been reprimanded for wearing a T-shirt that read “Nobody knows I’m a lesbian.”
A student in Northern California, who only identifies to the media as T.V., was sent home for wearing the shirt and is now suing two administration officials, according to the progressive news site The New Civil Rights Movement. She made the complaint last week and is represented by the ACLU. Administration officials gave a hodge-podge of reasons for sending her home, saying that her shirt was “an open invitation to sex,” could be “gang-related,” was “disruptive,” and that she couldn’t wear a shirt that stated her “personal choices and beliefs.”
Although T.V. tried to explain that sex and sexuality were not the same, an administration official simply told her she was wrong and that her T-shirt was about sex."
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