The American Civil Liberties Union is threatening to sue a San Diego school for refusing to let a student present a report on gay rights leader Harvey Milk until her classmates got their parents’ permission to hear it. After the principal sent letters to alert parents about the “sensitive topic,” the student was allowed to give her report during the lunch break, but not in class. The ACLU says the school violated the free speech rights of the 11-year old, who was the only student in her class prevented from giving an in-class presentation. Milk was the first openly gay men elected to political office in the USA when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. He was assassinated a year later, by a fellow Supervisor.
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Friday, 22nd May 2009 - 9:26pm