Image via Wikipedia 2/6/10-by Paula Brooks Two Iowa GOP State Representatives, Jason Schultz, and Matt Windschitl, this week, co-sponsored legislation which seeks to remove LGBT students from the 2007 Iowa Safe Schools Law that protects students from harassment and bullying in Iowa’s... (Continue reading)
12/19/09-by Paula Brooks A District of Columbia Mom is apparently upset with a teacher at her daughter’s school for telling her class she was getting married… According to the Washington City Paper… Margaret C. Hemenway, identifying herself as a D.C. Public Schools parent,... (Continue reading)
12/5/09-by Paula Brooks Already at odds with the Roman Catholic Church over such issues as gay rights and the liberalization of that country’s abortion laws, this week, the Spanish Socialist government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, has taken the... (Continue reading)
11/27/09-by Paula Brooks The Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board in Sault Saint Marie, Ontario is catching flak over H1N1 vaccinations… not because it is giving them… or concerns that a batch of H1N1 swine flu vaccine was recalled after reports... (Continue reading)
IN PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN TO ENCOURAGE WOMEN OVER THE AGE OF 40 TO RECEIVE MAMMOGRAMS, GILLIBRAND URGES FED TO CLARIFY NEW RECOMMENDATIONS New Guidelines Released This Week Claim Only Women Over 50 Need Routine Mammograms As Part Of Breast Cancer... (Continue reading)
11/2/09-by Paula Brooks Last week, Dan Delong, an English teacher at Southwestern High School in Piasa, IL was suspended after giving an optional assignment of reading an article about homosexuality in the animal kingdom to his students and is scheduled to... (Continue reading)
9/2/09-by Paula Brooks Two Minnesota teachers accused of repeatedly harassing a student they believed was gay, have been put on leave of absence from their jobs. Diane Cleveland, a 39-year-old social studies teacher, and Walter Filson, a 56-year-old law enforcement teacher, were... (Continue reading)
08/30/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Kyle Giard-Chase went before the Vermont Human Rights Commission to request a formal complaint regarding gender neutral bathrooms in Vermont schools. Before any panicking begins, what Kyle is talking about is a single stall bathroom similar to... (Continue reading)
Lesbian mom Dana Rudolph, aka Mombian, recently put together an article which covers the topic of back to school for LGBT parents. This is a busy time for many families, including those with LGBT parents, and the resources are flowing everywhere... (Continue reading)
Main cause for discrimination against homosexual students in Brazilian schools is the lack of preparation of teachers to deal with the issue, states Agência Brasil. According to Rosiléa Wille, chief-coordinator of Human Rights for MEC, teachers reproduce discriminatory behaviors because they... (Continue reading)
A Western Pennsylvania community college is taking cues from Barack Obama’s White House IT people on how to deal with inconvenient wording on uncomfortable positions and promises you’d now rather forget about… Since 2000, Westmoreland County Community College in Youngwood, PA... (Continue reading)
Here is a little something that has pretty much gone under the wire…. But something with a potential outcome that could spell some very far-reaching implications to Defense of Marriage amendments across the country. Thursday, the Wisconsin State Supreme Court formally... (Continue reading)
In a breakfast speech to delegates of the Georgia Republican convention this morning, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has made the marriage equality debate a fiscal issue by saying that allowing same-sex couples to marry places a financial burden... (Continue reading)
Forty-eight members of congress, led by openly gay reps Tammy Baldwin, Barney Frank, and Jared Polis have sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orsag telling him to reverse a Bush administration decision not to count... (Continue reading)
The debate over marriage equality was revisited in the Rhode Island State House Wednesday, as that states House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on two proposed bills. One bill would allow same-sex couples to wed in Rhode Island; the other... (Continue reading)