This is from the Huffington Post. New Jersey’s attorney general said Tuesday that school officials in Emerson, N.J., failed to stop the bullying of one of its student — which included threats and assaults — for six years, according to the Boston Herald. Attorney General Paula T. Dow announced that the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights found that there is probable cause that the district’s board of education ignored the harassment, violating the state’s[Read More…]
…”The Hate Agenda” specifically since most anti-gay groups attack LGBT’s as having some Gay Agenda, when in reality, the gay agenda is simply a matter of being treated as equals in our society, and having the same rights and freedoms as everyone else. But no one has really, until the SPLC, labeled the oppositions efforts as an agenda of hate.
Saw this story posted to Facebook, but TruthWinsOut, which you can also find in my blogroll, and the link below is to an article about this in the Huffington Post. A high school football team took a page out of the “Glee” playbook when they shook it to Beyonce to win their school some cash. The Decatur Central High School team in Central Indiana spoofed a scene from the show where the football team dances[Read More…]
Earlier this year, I was in Provincetown for my close friends, Brenda and Harriet’s wedding. Ptown is very close to the site of the Pilgrim’s landing, and home to a museum  about those crazy Pilgrims, and their adventures to get here. While my library has many books in it that I’ve had since childhood, one of my favorite books is missing. A small paperback that told the Pilgrim’s story. I remember using it in school[Read More…]
I saw this on Daniel’s blog, and the link below is to the original story on HuffPo. With World AIDS Day just around the corner, it is nice to see some good news for a change. AIDS Prevention: Pill Helps Gay Men Avoid HIV Infection, Study Finds Tuesday: U.N. officials said new HIV cases are dropping dramatically worldwide. A study showed that a daily pill already on pharmacy shelves could help prevent new infections in[Read More…]
Spark is one of the best holiday parties this December is also a fundraiser for one of the best Pittsburgh LGBT event, and I hope we will see you there!
Here is a list of websites that offer LGBTQ Rights information, resources and assistance. Â The list came from a posting on Facebook, and may not be a complete list. Â If there are other sites you would add to the list, please feel free to add a comment to this post. http://www.advocate.com/ http://www.getequal.org/ http://www.hrc.org/ http://www.afer.org/ http://www.gay.com/ http://www.out.com/ http://www.hrw.org/ http://www.gfn.com/ http://www.glaa.org/ http://www.glnh.org/ http://www.ilga.org/ http://www.aclu.org/ http://www.eqca.org/ http://www.bgay.com/ http://www.glaad.org/ http://www.laglc.org/ http://www.iglta.com/ http://www.365gay.com/ http://www.iglhrc.org/ http://www.moveon.org/ http://www.sfpride.org/ http://www.imminst.org/ http://www.change.org/ http://www.amnesty.org/ http://www.lapride.org/[Read More…]
A regular reader sent me a link to this story about a new book, The Right to Be Out, by Stuart Biegel: Americans have a constitutional right to be openly gay, lesbian, or transgender, and in fact the Constitution guarantees and protects that right, asserts Stuart Biegel. His new book, The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools, is a timely release from the University of Minnesota Press. Biegel argues[Read More…]
My Google Reader Feed (which I read using the iPad and iPhone app, Feedler) Â was full today with snippets about Willow Palin’s gay slur, and how Gay tea baggers are defending her. Yes, I used “gay tea bagger” intentionally, and I’ll write about that later. But in this post, I want to stick with my base question: Do we love homophobes? Or perhaps a better question, is this: Have we learned nothing from the recent[Read More…]
In as much as a Human Relations Commission assures that residents are protected by providing a a mechanism for discrimination abuses to be explored and determined, Lancaster County has essentially given a green light for anyone to be discriminated against based on sex, race, religion, and other criteria. Â This was done in the name of saving a few bucks in a budget? Here is the press release issued by Equality PA: Equality Pennsylvania Stunned by[Read More…]