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Students, School Board Members In Tennessee Protest ‘It’s OK To Be Gay’ Yearbook Article | A conservative school board member in Loudon County, Tennessee is calling for a criminal investigation into the faculty members who advise in the Lenoir City High School yearbook for publishing an article titled, “It’s OK to be Gay.” The piece, written about gay student Zac Mitchell, “includes Mitchell’s description of how he and his family have dealt with the issues of coming out in public and being bullied by others” and has stirred controversy among the student body. “According to students, petitions were being circulated urging others to tear the page from their yearbook as a sign of protest during graduation or to deny Mitchell the right to attend the ceremony.” Van Shaver, the school board member calling for the investigation, claims “What I am intolerant of is an adult, a teacher no less, inflicting their personal beliefs and sexual orientation decisions on impressionable students.” The article:

(HT: LGBTQ Nation/Towleroad)