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Survey Names Nations Most Gay Friendly Colleges

Written on 4 Aug, 2010 at 15:50 in Education, Featured, News, Organizations, People | viewed times | 2 Comments

8/4/10-by Paula Brooks Campus Pride, the only national nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization for student leaders and campus groups working to create a safer college environment for LGBT students, has issued their annual Campus Climate Index rating of over 200 colleges for their... (Continue reading)

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PFOX gets barred from National PTA Convention

Written on 8 Jun, 2010 at 17:37 in Education, Family, Family & Children, Featured, LGBT Children, News | viewed times | 4 Comments

6/8/10-by Paula Brooks The president of the Parents Teachers Association (PTA) has told Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX), to go sit in the corner, and has rejected the “Ex-Gay” organization’s request to exhibit at the upcoming national PTA... (Continue reading)

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Archbishop’s Statement Puts Same-Sex Marriage Course In Doubt At Seton Hall

Written on 30 Apr, 2010 at 20:22 in Education, Featured, News, Religion, Religion | viewed times | 12 Comments

Image via Wikipedia 4/30/10-by Paula Brooks Seton Hall University is now considering whether to cancel a course on same-sex marriage after Newark Archbishop John J. Myers issued a statement saying the course would conflict with the teachings of the Catholic Church. In the... (Continue reading)

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Duke College Republicans Head Claims His Ouster Was Over Sexual Orientation

Written on 19 Apr, 2010 at 10:11 in Education, Featured, LGBT Rights, News, Organizations, People, Politics | viewed times | 14 Comments

Image via Wikipedia 4/19/10-by Paula Brooks The former head of Duke University’s College Republicans claims his sexual orientation is the reason he no longer has his job. Justin Robinette, a Duke junior, was impeached last week as chairman of Duke’s College Republicans and... (Continue reading)

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Gender Neutral Dorm Hit By Anti-Gay Vandals in Oregon

Written on 9 Apr, 2010 at 8:46 in Crime, Education, Featured, News, Organizations, People | viewed times | 3 Comments

Image via Wikipedia 4/9/10-by Paula Brooks A “gender-neutral” dormitory on the campus of Southern Oregon University has been hit by anti-gay vandalism. According to the DailyTidings, residents of Southern Oregon University’s gender-neutral dorm found anti-gay graffiti scrawled across their hallway walls and doors... (Continue reading)

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ACLU Rejects Atheists 20k Prom Donation, Stirs Controversy

Written on 2 Apr, 2010 at 7:48 in Education, Featured, In The Courts, News, Organizations, People, Religion | viewed times | 3 Comments

Image via Wikipedia 4/2/10-by Paula Brooks The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi has rejected a $20,000 donation from the American Humanist Association, intended to underwrite an alternate prom for students of Itawamba County Agricultural High School, replacing one canceled by a... (Continue reading)

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Maryland School District Ends Censorship Of LGBT Websites

Written on 27 Mar, 2010 at 13:44 in Education, Featured, LGBT Children, News, Organizations | viewed times | 5 Comments

Image via Wikipedia 3/27/10-by Paula Brooks The Harford County Public School District in northeast Maryland has stopped filtering student access to LGBT-related web sites, after it was challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union on the issue. The schools systems filter system had... (Continue reading)

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Student Protest Georgia Gay Prom Decision

Written on 26 Mar, 2010 at 15:02 in Education, Featured, LGBT Children, News, People | viewed times | 6 Comments

Image via Wikipedia About a dozen Bleckley County High School students staged a rally at the Bleckley County courthouse in Cochran, GA to protest their high school allowing a gay student to take his boyfriend to the prom. Last week Bleckley school... (Continue reading)

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Texas University Places Restrictions On Play Featuring Gay Jesus

Written on 25 Mar, 2010 at 12:11 in Education, Featured, News, Organizations, People | viewed times | 4 Comments

Image via Wikipedia 3/25/10-by Paula Brooks Threats and security concerns have prompted a Texas university to place restrictions on a play in which Jesus is portrayed as gay. The production, called “Corpus Christi”, was originally scheduled as part of a Tarleton State University... (Continue reading)

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Georgia Student Thrown Out Of His Home After Media Storm Over Gay Prom

Written on 25 Mar, 2010 at 9:02 in Education, Featured, LGBT Children, News, People | viewed times | 6 Comments

3/25/10-by Paula Brooks The parents of an 18-year-old Georgia honors student who won the right to bring his boyfriend to his high school prom, have kicked him out of the house. This week Derrick Martin, a student at Bleckley County High School... (Continue reading)

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Student Theater Project At Texas University Causes A Stir

Written on 23 Mar, 2010 at 19:01 in Education, Featured, News, Organizations, People | viewed times | 6 Comments

Image via Wikipedia 3/23/10-by Paula Brooks A student at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, has cause quite a stir after he chose for his advanced directing class project, a play that stars a gay Christ-like leading man who performs a marriage... (Continue reading)

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Judge Wont Force Mississippi School District To Hold Prom

Written on 23 Mar, 2010 at 16:56 in Education, Featured, In The Courts, News, Organizations, People | viewed times | 7 Comments

Image via Wikipedia 3/23/10-by Paula Brooks U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson said today he wouldn’t force a Mississippi school district to hold a prom it canceled after a lesbian student asked to bring her girlfriend. The ACLU had sued the Itawamba.... (Continue reading)

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Georgia High School Officials Allow Gay Prom Date

Written on 23 Mar, 2010 at 5:52 in Education, Featured, News, Organizations, People | viewed times | 9 Comments

Image via Wikipedia 3/23/10-by Paula Brooks In stark contrast to similar request by Constance McMillen, a lesbian high school student in Mississippi that this month prompted school officials there to cancel her prom, an 18-year-old Georgia High School student has won... (Continue reading)

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Constance McMillen Goes To Court Over Cancelled Prom

Written on 22 Mar, 2010 at 21:34 in Education, Featured, In The Courts, News | viewed times | 2 Comments

Image via Wikipedia 3/22/10-by Paula Brooks Today in the Aberdeen, MS federal courtroom of U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson, the Mississippi School administrators who canceled a high school prom after a lesbian student asked to bring her girlfriend, testified today that... (Continue reading)

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California School Finds Instructor Created Hostile Learning Environment With Anti-Gay Remarks

Written on 21 Mar, 2010 at 8:55 in Education, Featured, News, Organizations, People | viewed times | 13 Comments

3/21/10-by Paula Brooks School administrators have ruled that a Fresno City College teacher violated the schools anti-discrimination policy after he told students that homosexuality is a mental disorder that should be treated with psychotherapy. The complaint, brought by three Fresno City College... (Continue reading)

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