School Defends LGBTQ Sex Ed After Right-Wing Video Leak, Gets Bomb Threat: Reports

CHICAGO, IL — A private school in Lincoln Park was evacuated Monday after a bomb threat that came in the wake of a video in which a dean at the school discussed its LGBTQ sex education programming, according to reports.

The threat to Francis W. Parker School is believed to have been unsubstantiated and to have come from outside the country, WLS reported.

The incident occurred after the right-wing guerilla journalist organization Project Veritas published a video of the Parker dean, Joseph Bruno, explaining how the school invited outside speakers to teach about queer sex and that part of the lesson involved showing students sex toys, according to reports.

The event Bruno described was an optional session for high school students featuring Howard Brown Health that was put on as part of Parker's Pride Week programming, WBEZ reported.

Bruno did not know he was being filmed and the video was deceptively edited, the school told FOX 32 Chicago, which reported that Parker’s trustees supported the school's programming. The footage of Bruno was taken last week by a person posing as an attendee at an educator’s conference, according to WBEZ.

Amid the aftermath of the video, Parker has expanded its police presence and disabled its Facebook and Twitter accounts, WBEZ reported.

Someone marched outside the school Thursday in protest, and Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe tried to confront Bruno on Wednesday at Parker, according to WBEZ.