Archive for April, 2010

Vancouver Catholic school teacher says she was told to stay home for being a lesbian parent

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

A well-known Vancouver music teacher and founder of a Vancouver children’s choir says she was told to stay home from Little Flower Academy, an independent Catholic school, after they learned she was a lesbian whose partner just gave birth.

Vancouver teacher says Catholic school won’t let her teach because she’s a lesbian

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

A music teacher at Little Flower Academy has said she was “shocked and completely unprepared” when she was told that she couldn’t continuing teaching at the private school because she is a lesbian and her partner had given birth to their first child.

Vancouver Catholic school teacher says she was fired for being a lesbian parent

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

A well-known Vancouver music teacher said she was fired from an independent Catholic school after school officials learned she was a lesbian whose partner just gave birth.

B.C. teacher fired because she is lesbian, group says

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

A gay rights group in B.C. is raising concern about public funding of private schools after a lesbian teacher was fired by a Catholic high school for girls when she applied for parental leave.

Lesbian teacher dismissed from Catholic school

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Vancouver’s Little Flower Academy has dismissed music teacher Lisa Reimer because she is a lesbian, according to a gay rights group.

Lesbian teacher claims she was fired from elite Vancouver Catholic girls’ school

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Little Flower Academy, a Catholic girls’ school in Vancouver, has fired music teacher Lisa Reimer because she is a lesbian parent, according to a news release issued Wednesday by the B.C.’s Pride Education Network.

Lesbian teacher told to work from home, group says

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

A teacher at a Catholic high school for girls in Vancouver was told to work from home after parents complained about having a lesbian teach their kids, a gay rights group says.

Lesbian teacher told to work from home, group says

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

A teacher at a Catholic high school for girls in Vancouver was told to work from home after parents complained about having a lesbian teach their kids, a gay rights group says.

Hate group Westboro Baptist Church to picket lesbian teen Constance McMillen’s graduation

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

A Mississippi lesbian who was denied the chance to go to her school’s prom is now being targeted by a Kansas-based hate group – and it is going to protest at her graduation.

Hate group Westboro Baptist Church to picket lesbian teen Constance McMillen’s graduation

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

A Mississippi lesbian who was denied the chance to go to her school’s prom is now being targeted by a Kansas-based hate group – and it is going to protest at her graduation.