LGBTQ students are “some of the most bullied and harassed students nationwide - certainly in the state of Texas,” McMurray said, pointing to surveys showing a majority of LGBTQ students feel unsafe at school. MacArthur’s GSA offered small circular rainbow stickers to teachers last school year to post on their classroom doors as a sign that they supported LGBTQ students and felt equipped to talk to them if they were having a rough day, or just needed a moment to decompress. When the academic year began in late August, students immediately noticed the dozens of ally stickers were gone.
