Even though there were no LGBTQ+ items on the school board agenda, hundreds of protesters and supporters showed up at the meeting.
Unified School District's final board meeting of the year drew large groups of protesters and advocates of the LGBTQ+ community, and police arrested one person who was in custody Wednesday.3 arrested after protest outside Glendale school board meeting over student pronouns turns violent
"Angry rhetoric has been ratcheted up and some things have been said and done that are simply not OK and they really must stop," she said. "Accusatory language, personal attacks, mining people's social media to publicize deeply personal situations, vandalizing cars, racial and ethnic slurs, homophobic, transphobic slurs and intentional misrepresentation of what's happening in our schools.
The group's posts suggested that an "allied group of GUSD parents" will attend the meeting to speak in support of LGBTQ+ kids, and "we additionally want to support and protect them through our presence there." On June 6, the board was considering a motion -- which it has approved uneventfully in recent years -- recognizing June as Pride Month. The vote, coming on the heels of a much-debated Pride Month assembly at a North Hollywood high school that prompted vocal protests, led to hundreds of people gathering outside district headquarters. Clashes quickly erupted, leading to isolated fistfights that prompted a brief shelter-in-place order inside the board meeting.
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