LGBT News Stories Gets Nebraska High School Paper Shutdown

GRAND ISLAND, NE — (08-29-22) — LGBT News stories printed in a Northwest High School Newspaper has lead to the shutdown of the 54-Year-Old School Newspaper. The journalism program at Northwest High School in Grand Island, Nebraska, was shut down in June following the outrage by anti-LGBTQ adult upset over several of the articles.

Before school administrators went mum as the press started investigating what had happened back in late June, students and school board staff had been made aware that the conservative administrators did not like what the newspaper was publishing.

The Grand Island Independent—which also printed the school’s newspaper, Viking Saga—reports that the school’s year-end newspaper had a number of LGBT-related articles and discussed the history of Pride Month in June. That was enough to sink the paper by conservatives.

Northwest Public Schools board Vice President Zach Mader said in prior public settings…”I do think there have been talks of doing away with our newspaper if we were not going to be able to control content that we saw (as) inappropriate.” explained Mader. “The very last issue that came out this year, there was… a little bit of hostility amongst some. There were editorials that were essentially, I guess what I would say, LGBTQ.” said Mader.

Four days after that issue was printed in May, a school district employee contacted the Grand Island Independent press to cancel printing services. The Northwest employee, in an email, said that the school was ending the journalism program “because the school board and superintendent are unhappy with the last issue’s editorial content.”

You don’t have to be blind to see a clear attempt by the administration to tamp silence opinions the anti-LGBTQ adults don’t like.

Article by: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer

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