The Kernal, East Bakersfield High School’s school newspaper was to feature a series on gay issues back in April when Principal John L. Gibson stopped the series from going to print.

“All of a sudden everything comes to a screeching halt,” said Travis Mattias, 17, the paper’s features editor. “We talked about certain cases before and what to do when we have censorship issues…. We just never expected it would happen to us.”

With help from the American Civil Liberties Union, five students and their parents filed a lawsuit seeking publication of the series that was censored by school officials.

Read more, including the original statements of the East Bakersfield High School students and ACLU attorney Christine Sun, here.

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