It's back to school time and religious fundamentalists in Texas are salivating. Why? Because of what the Houston Chronicle terms the "insidiously named Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act," which has given them a license to recruit new believers in schools.
This new law requires Texas school districts to adopt...
Posted June 24, 2007 | 03:45 PM (EST)
So it's 2007 and people in blue states like New Jersey and New York say it's fine to be gay. Well, don't tell that to Andre Jackson.
Apparently, Andre Jackson is a pretty typical, normal high school kid. A senior at Newark's East High,...
Posted May 11, 2007 | 05:50 PM (EST)
"To equate Bible study groups and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes with Gay-Straight Alliances is tantamount to comparing the Sistine Chapel with a strip joint." - Kenric Ward, opinion page editor of the Vero Beach Press Journal, in TCPalm.com
Oh my.
For the past several months in...
Posted April 29, 2007 | 06:09 PM (EST)
I spoke yesterday at a memorial service for Barbara Gittings in Philadelphia. Many of you may not recognize the name of this legendary activist, which is too bad because, as he put it in his remarks, my friend Matt Foreman (Executive Director of NGLTF, the National Gay & Lesbian Task...
Posted April 21, 2007 | 01:59 PM (EST)
A further insight into Cho's background comes from high school classmates in suburban Washington who say he was bullied and laughed at over his Korean accent and shyness. When called on in class, they say, he would hang his head in silence.
-MSNBC report
Leave it to a...
Posted April 17, 2007 | 07:27 PM (EST)
Six students followed 15-year-old Anthony Hergesheimer as he walked home from school two weeks ago in Pueblo, Colo. After yelling anti-gay slurs at him during several passes in their car, one of the six students got out of the car and threw an object, breaking...
Posted March 22, 2007 | 01:53 PM (EST)
"We're not trying to downgrade anyone else."
Indianapolis Colts Coach Tony Dungy trying to explain why his active support for a same-sex marriage ban is OK is somehow not a statement against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in USA Today.
I've always been a New...
Posted March 18, 2007 | 01:41 PM (EST)
"History repeats itself: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."--Karl Marx
They're baaack!
Ten years ago, Utah's legislators had an apoplectic fit and tried to ban all student clubs when students at Salt Lake City's East High School started a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) student club...
Posted March 17, 2007 | 07:14 PM (EST)
Earlier this week, some Florida high school and college students, many of them LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender), went to Tallahassee to make the case for the "Jeffrey Johnston Stand Up For All Students Act," which takes aim at harassing and bullying behaviors in the state's schools. One...
Posted March 14, 2007 | 02:03 PM (EST)
Judge not, that ye be not judged... Why beholdest thou the mote that is in they brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?... Thou hypocrite, first cast the beam out of thine own eye."
Matthew 7: 1, 3, 5
A lesbian couple named...
Posted March 6, 2007 | 03:59 PM (EST)
"'Faggot isn't offensive to gays; it has nothing to do with gays...It's a schoolyard taunt."
Ann Coulter on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, March 5, 2007
"What do you expect from a pig but a grunt?"
Alice Jennings (1925-2002), innumerable occasions
Oh Ann. You've got to be kidding....
Posted February 7, 2007 | 02:26 PM (EST)
"He [Reverend Ted Haggard] is completely heterosexual."
--Rev. Tim Ralph to the Denver Post
So Ted Haggard is completely heterosexual. And I am the Queen of England.
I'm sorry, you don't have a three-year affair with another man if you are "completely heterosexual." Mr. Haggard cannot use...
Posted February 5, 2007 | 08:17 PM (EST)
"This is a baby. This is a blessing from God. It is not a political statement." Mary Cheney on the subject of her pregnancy, New York Times, February 2, 2007
Poor Mary. Poor, poor Mary. So deluded. So much in denial.
Mary Cheney, the expecting lesbian daughter of...

Posted August 27, 2007 | 08:32 PM (EST)