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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 09:09 PM Apr 2015

Pennsylvania high schoolers wear matching flannel, hang hateful posters on ‘Anti-Gay Day'

A band of Pennsylvania high schoolers in matching flannel shirts slapped hateful poster on gay students’ lockers and drafted a “lynch list” to mark their self-concocted “Anti-Gay Day,” students said.

As many as 100 students at Claysville’s McGuffey High School took part in the Thursday protest a day after the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance held its Day of Silence. GSA’s day was organized to draw attention to and condemn bulling against gay students, according to the Observer-Reporter.

The homophobic students, mostly boys, wore flannel shirts on the same day and wrote “anti-gay” and drew crosses on the backs of their hands. The group stuck intimidating posters on gay students’ lockers and scuffled with Gay-Straight Alliance members and their supporters, student Zoe Johnson told WPXI.

“Yesterday, there was pushing, posters hung on homosexual students’ lockers. Teachers were having to run out and take them down,” she said.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pennsylvania-high-schoolers-organize-anti-gay-day-article-1.2192834

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Pennsylvania high schoolers wear matching flannel, hang hateful posters on ‘Anti-Gay Day' (Original Post) n2doc Apr 2015 OP
"Lynch list"?! shenmue Apr 2015 #1
Threats of violence should be seriously punished, absolutely. n/t nomorenomore08 Apr 2015 #7
I'm from Pennsylvania, and I had to look up Claysville to find out where it is. enough Apr 2015 #2
The school administrators did nothing while they had their brown shirt Kristallnacht. BrightKnight Apr 2015 #3
jesus Mary and Joseph marym625 Apr 2015 #4
Seems to me they were protesting too much. xfundy Apr 2015 #5
Thought the same thing marym625 Apr 2015 #6
The adults caused this. They are in charge of the environment in the school. Fearless Apr 2015 #8
They seem so proud of their hatred and bigotry. n/t BeeBee Apr 2015 #9

enough

(13,255 posts)
2. I'm from Pennsylvania, and I had to look up Claysville to find out where it is.
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 09:23 PM
Apr 2015

About as far west as you can get on route 70 before you're in Wheeling, WV.

BrightKnight

(3,567 posts)
3. The school administrators did nothing while they had their brown shirt Kristallnacht.
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 09:38 PM
Apr 2015

There is a difference between free speech and terrorism.

xfundy

(5,105 posts)
5. Seems to me they were protesting too much.
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 09:53 PM
Apr 2015

I'd bet that more than one of those kids is gay but self-hating.

Fearless

(18,421 posts)
8. The adults caused this. They are in charge of the environment in the school.
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 02:21 AM
Apr 2015

I have a feeling they've turned a blind eye or forty million to this kind of behavior in the past.

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