One of the students claims he and his friends just went to the meeting out of genuine "curiosity."

Students holding their first gay-straight alliance meeting at a California high school were allegedly interrupted and harassed by fellow classmates who waved “Make America Great Again” flags, and mocked them, leading to a verbal altercation that spilled out into the parking lot.

A parent of a student at Frontier High School, in Bakersfield, wrote on Facebook that students from the Future Farmers of America group came to the meeting with their Trump flags, and that “straight kids [were] holding hands yelling this is what’s right.” The parent also reported their child saying kids from the FFA student group had been targeting anyone they felt was “liberal.”

One member of the FFA group, a senior referred to only as Matthew, said he and others were suspended for “harassment, intimidation and sexual assault,” but claims they only went to the gay-straight alliance meeting out of “curiosity.”

“It wasn’t just us saying stuff to them…we were all screaming and yelling at each other,” he claimed.

“If you have an opinion that people don’t agree with you get hated on for it, so sometimes it just makes people not want to have an opinion because they’re worried about the backlash that’s going to come from it,” he added.





“The individual actions of students which took place Wednesday August 28th on the Frontier High School campus were in no way organized, supported, nor defended by The Frontier FFA Chapter, its advisors or its membership,” wrote the Frontier High School chapter of the FFA in a statement posted to Facebook.

School officials have confirmed the incident is being investigated.

“The Kern High School District and Frontier High School recognize that students have varying viewpoints and opinions. One of the goals of the educational process is to teach students how to communicate respectfully,” said the school district in a statement to ABC affiliate KERO.

“The reported incident that occurred on Wednesday afternoon at Frontier High School is currently being investigated. Once the investigation is complete, appropriate follow-up measures will be taken.”