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The Pride Month That Perished

“People are going, ‘Enough, enough.’ Stop shoving this down everybody’s throat.”

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Pedro L. Gonzalez
Jul 11, 2023
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It was the middle of “Pride Month,” also known as June, at Edison High School in Huntington Beach, California, when a math teacher decided to play a video celebrating the extended observance. What happened next, which was caught on camera, might seem surprising.

The classroom instantly erupts in boos an…

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