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Members Of The Santa Clarita LGBTQ+ Community Discuss Coming Out

Coming out is a unique experience for everyone in the LGBTQ+ community, and this Pride Month, members of the Santa Clarita community discussed with KHTS their experiences and advice. The process of realizing and accepting one’s sexuality prior to coming out is different for everyone, and may take a long time.  “I was raised Catholic, and I was a youth ...

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Santa Clarita Pride: Advocacy Group Hosts Celebration Of LGBTQ Community

In 1981, a high schooler named Trevor realized he was gay. Friends abandoned him, his parents ignored him and he is accused of being a pervert by the town priest, highlighting the lack of resources people in his position had. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Trevor’s story, told through the 1994 ...

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Hart District Student Questions FAIR Education Act Instruction In SCV

For the second year in a row, the number of students expelled and suspended from school across California declined, according to a report Wednesday from state Superintendent Tom Torlakson.

A Canyon High School senior is asking Hart district officials to speed up their process for including the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans into Santa Clarita Valley junior high and high school social studies classes. Andrew Taban, 17, is involved with several advocacy groups, and spoke at several Hart district board meetings after the topic was brought up among several student groups, he said. “When you see someone like you in history, you feel like there’s a chance for you,” Taban said. “It also gives a normality to who you are.” The William S. Hart Union High School District is in compliance with the FAIR Education Act, said Vicki Engbrecht, Hart district assistant superintendent for educational services. The Hart district oversees about 22,000 public junior high and high school students in the Santa Clarita Valley.

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State Senate Committee Approves Anti-Discrimination Bill

State Senate bill SB 323, also known as the controversial “Boy Scout Bill,” which seeks to deny the tax-exempt status of groups that discriminate against gay, transgender or atheist members, passed its first vote this week. A Senate Governance and Finance Committee hearing on the bill, also being referred to as the Youth Equality Act, resulted in a 5-2 vote ...

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