Tulsa students suspended after LGBT poster defaced

Tulsa, Okla. (AP) — Nearly a dozen students at a Tulsa high school have been suspended after a poster promoting awareness about bullying and harassment of LGBT students was defaced.

A group of Booker T. Washington High School students made posters to promote the national "Day of Silence" last month on which students take a vow of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of bullying on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youths in schools.

The Tulsa Worldreports one student recorded another vandalizing the poster. Images were then posted to a social media website called Phhhoto with the caption including a gay slur. Nine more students recorded "likes" on the post.

A district spokesman said the school's principal wanted to send a strong message about how hate speech wouldn't be tolerated.

Information from: Tulsa World, Tulsa, OK.

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