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Federal court declares South Carolina’s “no promo homo” law unconstitutional

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LGBTQ advocates announce a lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s 1988 “no promo homo” law – Photo: SC Equality. A federal court has entered a consent decree that declares a South Carolina law prohibiting LGBTQ content from being discussed in a positive or neutral way in health education classes to be unconstitutional.

The decree comes two weeks after the high school student organization Gender and Sexuality Alliance, along with the Campaign for Southern Equality and South Carolina Equality Coalition on behalf of their members who are public school students, sued the state over its “no promo homo” law.

Under the 1988 law, discussions concerning homosexuality or same-sex relationships are prohibited in the classroom, except in the context of

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