John Rustin is president and executive director of the North Carolina Family Policy Council, based in Raleigh. The council focuses on a variety of faith-related issues, including conversion therapy and gambling.

Michael Curtis is Judge Donald L. Smith Professor in Constitutional and Public Law at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. He says the government can protect people from hate speech in public schools.

Victor Diaz-Herman is executive director of Pridelines Youth Services, based in Miami, which serves gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth of South Florida. The nonprofit organization hosts an annual GLBTQ prom.

Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum formed in Montgomery County, Md., out of concern for how sexual orientation was presented in the public school sex education curriculum.

Planned Parenthood of Central Pennsylvania has organized The Curve, a support group for young people ages 14-21 who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender or are questioning their sexuality.”

Cris Beam, an adjunct assistant professor of creative writing at Columbia University in New York City, wrote Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers (Harcourt, January 2007). Read a Jan. 5, 2007, Salon.com article.

MassResistance (formerly Article 8 Alliance and Parents’ Rights Coalition) opposes same-sex marriage and is concerned about teaching about and promotion of homosexuality in public schools. The organization is based in Waltham, Mass.

Kristian M. Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, has been collecting reports from parents concerned about homosexuality being taught in public schools.

Lee Swislow is executive director of Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, which is based in Boston and has been active in matters involving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender public school students in New England. On its Rights and Resources page, GLAD tracks students’ rights state-by-state for Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island; click on LGBT Overview […]