De La Salle works towards its first gay-straight alliance

My second piece in the current issue of Capital Xtra is about a student's difficulty in establishing a Gay-Straight Alliance in her French public high school. This story very nearly made it into the previous issue, but I ended up holding off while waiting for one of the meetings to take place, to know what kinds of developments might happen. Well, so much for that - after the meeting took place, the school board's communications person kept insisting that everything was still up in the air, and that there wasn't really a story. We ran with the story as is, without the school board's input, and there may yet be a follow-up once they finally make some more definitive progress.