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    LZ Granderson: Past victories to protect queer kids at school didn't save Nex Benedict

    The name Pat Logue may not be familiar to many of us, but her work is. From establishing the right of same-sex parents to adopt children to challenging the merits of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, it's not an exaggeration to say Logue's accomplishments as a lawyer for Lambda Legal were instrumental in changing the way society treats LGBTQ+ people. She died last month. It is ...
    by LZ Granderson, Los Angeles Times Mar 05, 2024 3 minutes
    People gather outside the Stonewall Inn for a memorial and vigil for the Oklahoma teenager who died following a fight in a high school bathroom on Feb. 26, 2024, in New York City. Nex Benedict, a 16- year-old who identified as nonbinary and used they/them pronouns, died a day after the altercation in the school bathroom. Benedict, who had complained before about...

    The name Pat Logue may not be familiar to many of us, but her work is.

    From establishing the right of same-sex parents to adopt children to challenging the merits of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, it's not an exaggeration to say Logue's accomplishments as a lawyer for Lambda Legal were instrumental in changing the way society treats LGBTQ+ people. She died last month.

    It is because of Logue's work that the family of Nex Benedict may get some iota — was the first legal challenge to antigay violence in public schools.

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