An informational session at Pinelands Junior High School on Feb. 5 was as short as it was long awaited.

It was hosted by the Pinelands Regional School District, the New Jersey Department of Education and the LGBTQ advocacy group Garden State Equality. Its purpose was to explain the district’s pilot program designed to include instruction to eighth-graders on “the political, economic and social contributions” of people in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning community,…