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A Night To Remember: HuffPost Gay Voices Salutes Same-Sex Prom Couples

2012-05-27T09:00:00Z

For high school students nationwide, the prom is more than just the most exciting night of the year -- it's become a bonafide rite-of-passage.

How...

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Zach Veach: BULLY Movie: Moving Away from a Place of Crisis

2012-05-26T10:26:34Z

As a kid who was bullied in the public school system, I hope we can move away from dealing with bullying from a place of crisis and instead guide a bullying strategy rather than accepting it.

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Dharun Ravi And The Tyler Clementi Trial: Was His Sentence Fair? Vote Now!

2012-05-24T11:11:38Z

It's Friday and that means it's time for Poll Position -- your chance to sound off on an issue facing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender comm...

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Sarika Arya: Your Story (VIDEO)

2012-05-25T12:29:00Z

This is a story about you: You will survive bullying. We have met individuals who, like you, feel lonely, ashamed, depressed, hated, and even ready to die. But they are still here, achieving their true potential and sharing their stories -- your stories -- in Yale College's "It Gets Better" video.

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Marlo Thomas: The Fight Against Bullying -- Kids Take Charge

2012-05-25T08:19:03Z

Adults often underestimate children's ability to grasp the heart of a concept -- or run with an idea of their own -- but we're wrong. They're a lot smarter and more take-charge than we think. We're seeing that ability take hold now with bullying.

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Nathan Manske: WATCH: Deaf Gay Teen Recounts Standing Up To A Bully

2012-05-24T17:24:00Z

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Bruce Kluger: The GOP's War on Children

2012-05-23T01:56:38Z

As in most presidential election years, noisy battles have been raging as the nation's political armies gear up for what promises to be an even nois...

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TRAGEDY: 7-year-old Found Dead In Suspected Suicide

2012-05-24T08:35:17Z

Detroit police responded to a tragic call from Pingree Street Wednesday afternoon. A 7-year-old boy had been found dead in what police are saying was ...

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Guidelines Seek Line Between Free Speech, Bullying

2012-05-23T08:53:30Z

WASHINGTON (RNS) When Sally tells Jimmy that he's going to hell for believing in a false religion, is that Sally exercising her First Amendment right ...

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Christine Eads: Memories, Good, Really Bad and Good Again??

2012-05-19T20:25:42Z

I don't remember growing older. When did my kids?

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Janell Burley Hofmann: Growing Pains From the Sidelines

2012-05-22T10:52:33Z

The humbling tumble from the world of boyhood to confused, chaotic adolescence is upon us. And I am sick over it.

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Stuart Muszynski: Building a Nation Where Everybody Is Somebody

2012-05-22T09:24:47Z

Anyone in the media, in politics or behind closed doors who refuses to respect the dignity of another ought to be called out as a bully, a narcissist, a hate-inciter or all of the above. Let's not repeat the mistake we made with Senator Joe McCarthy by calling people like this "leaders."

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Sanah Imran: Counteracting Bullying through Compliments

2012-05-22T09:20:17Z

A girl at my school started a "compliments" Facebook page, in which compliments that anyone submits about anyone else can be posted anonymously. In the first night, over 70 were posted!

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Michelangelo Signorile: Ravi, Romney And Anti-Gay Bullying: What A Difference 50 Years Makes

2012-05-21T13:59:36Z

The Dharun Ravi verdict and sentencing represents a dramatic shift in society's view of anti-gay bullying and of bias crimes against LGBT people. Just compare what Ravi did to Tyler Clementi to what Mitt Romney reportedly did to a nonconforming student at his prep school in 1965.

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Texas High School Yearbooks Described Some Students As 'Mentally Retarded'

2012-05-21T12:30:00Z

Officials at Mesquite High School in Mesquite, Texas, have recalled their recently distributed school yearbooks after it was discovered the books desc...

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Rev. Romal J. Tune: Bullying Starts at Home

2012-05-21T09:45:07Z

Often, our public discourse regarding the need to end bullying centers around the assumption that children are only bullied at school. That assumption couldn't be further from the truth.

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Talking To Kids About Bullying

2012-05-18T16:00:57Z

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book:

In today's world, people who run for office should assume that thei...

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Amy Weber: Into The Abyss: One Filmmaker's Journey Into The Bully Crisis

2012-05-18T16:05:00Z

This blog is my way to share with you the one project that I feel is the most important one of my life: The Bully Chronicles. The film will feature real teens, teachers, and parents. For the first time, the story will be told from the bully's perspective.

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Rep. Mike Honda: The Anti-Bullying Movement: What's Next

2012-05-17T10:04:41Z

The American Dream is first ignited in the classroom, and bullying is a clear and present danger to our nation's safety, spirit and competitiveness. Each educator and campus leader has a key role to play in the national mission to create a safe environment for each child.

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John Robinson: School Yard Pranks Are Unacceptable

2012-05-10T15:39:26Z

Our Ability is neutral politically. I try to be neutral politically. Disability does NOT discriminate. However, it sounds like one of our political leaders in the United States does, or did.

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Carolyn Laub: Why Zero Tolerance Is Not The Solution To School Bullying

2012-05-16T15:49:00Z

Many legislators and school-safety advocates have demanded "zero tolerance" for bullies. But as founder of Gay-Straight Alliance Network, a national organization that empowers students to create safer schools for LGBT youth, I can tell you there's a better way.

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Wayne Maines: Introducing Our Parents' Generation To Transgender Children Can Be Hard But Rewarding

2012-05-16T11:22:41Z

I waited for the old man to tell me I was nuts. He looked at me and said, "Maybe I am too old to change. Maybe your son and my grandson will be able to make things better."

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Roy Zimmerman: Romney Mitt, the Demon Barber of Wall Street

2012-05-16T10:52:50Z

Mitt Romney has encouraged young people to "take a risk," like he did back in prep school. "Take a shot, go for it," like he did. "Borrow money if you have to, start a business."

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Paul Schmitz: LGBT Youth: We Need You

2012-05-15T12:44:16Z

It has long troubled me when any population is marginalized and we don't benefit from their full, authentic participation and leadership in society. Recent advances in equal rights for our LGBT citizens are only a beginning.

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Cindy Waitt: Bully : The Sequel

2012-05-15T11:41:15Z

You don't have to be a filmmaker to stand up to bullies. We can all do something, as parents, educators, volunteers, students, and schools to help stop them in their tracks, or at the very least, decrease the day to day incidents that put our kids and families at risk.

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