Students Wearing Anti-LGBT Stickers Spark Controversy At Southern California School
INDIO, Riverside County (CBS) -- Students displaying anti-LGBT stickers at a high school near Palm Springs have touched off a debate over free speech.
The stickers show a rainbow with a line crossing through it. According to CBS Los Angeles, officials said the stickers have increasingly shown up over the past two weeks on some students' school ID badges at Shadow Hills High School in Indio, as well as on social media websites.
The increasing number of the stickers caused an outcry at the school among students and faculty. Many called it hate speech.
Shadow Hills senior and vice president of the Gay Straight Alliance Michelle Bachman said on Twitter that the stickers were "definitely hate speech, but legally, we can't do anything until these students start to physically harass us, which I believe is an injustice."