The following events all happened in the span of two years: a group of boys in a Floridian high school protested against their school’s Gay-Straight Alliance club by stomping on rainbow flags and calling students slurs (News4Jax); an eighth grader was attacked in a PE locker room by a tenth grader for his sexuality, all while his peers watched and recorded (Newsweek); and at an Oregon high school, LGBTQ+ kids were bullied and forced to read the Bible (New York Times).