Protesting Pride Month - 3 Arrested at school board meeting

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Three arrests were made Tuesday as protesters violently clashed outside a Los Angeles County school district building, where board members had convened to vote on whether or not to recognize June as Pride Month, according to the Glendale Police Department.

Hundreds of people gathered outside the Glendale Unified School District headquarters both in opposition and in support of the school district’s LGBTQ policies. Anti-LGBTQ protesters waved American flags and chanted “Leave our kids alone” and the names of the five school board members. Counterprotesters waved Pride flags and held up signs rebuking anti-LGBTQ sentiments, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The board was about an hour into hearing comments from the public when police declared the protests “unlawful assembly” due to instances of physical violence, including unauthorized pepper spray use, police said. Attendees of the school board meeting were ordered to shelter in place, and police cordoned the building entrance with yellow tape.

Glendale police issued a statement saying that, “while most of the protest was peaceful, a small group of individuals engaged in behavior deemed unsafe.” Three people were arrested and removed from the protest. Just past 6 p.m., after additional attempts to de-escalate the situation were unsuccessful, the Glendale Police Department issued a dispersal order for the entire protest.

After police dispersed the protests, the school board unanimously voted to recognize June as Pride Month. Nayiri Nahabedian, president of the school board, said at the meeting that this was the fourth year that GUSD called for recognition of Pride Month, according to the Los Angeles Times.

1. June is already recognized as Pride month regardless of what some bigots think.

2. No one is selling or marketing different sexual orientations to children.

3. Pride month recognition in schools is for the safety & betterment of kids' lives. It's to prevent murders and suicides. It teaches tolerance/acceptance to potential bigots, and let's queer kids know they're not alone - people like them exist, always have, always will and that's okay.


Whoever spun all this bs in right wing media echo chambers should be brought up on hate speech charges or something. Like wtf.. attacking queer kids in your bs political culture war nonsense. Lowest of lows.