Perspective | LGBTQ+ teens won a grant for their school. Adults sent the money back.
wapo.st
The Lynchburg school board rejected a grant teens won from It Gets Better, a nonprofit founded to prevent LGBTQ+ youth suicide.

The applicants made it clear the space wouldn’t be just for LGBTQ+ students. It would be for anyone who needs to “just breathe for a second,” said one of the students who confronted the adults Nov. 14.

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The grant asks for just one thing — that they identify the sponsors, something that every grant does, one school board member reminded the room. In this case, it would be with one simple phrase anywhere in the space: “It Gets Better.”

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
    841·
    11 months ago

    Conservatives have always encouraged gay youth and any other kids who “aren’t cool” to kill themselves.

    Conservatives delight in the idea of “defective” children committing suicide. This is why conservatives have worked so hard to defund or sabotage suicide prevention efforts nationwide for the last 20 years.

    #JustConservativeThings

    • trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      22·
      11 months ago

      Incidentally they also push suicide on anyone that might cost them money, veterans, the ill and injured, the working class as a whole.