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Thursday, August 21
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Source: Johnson City Press Johnson City, Tenn. -- Three men were assaulted Wednesday night outside a Johnson City gay bar by assailants who, according to a police report "began shouting homosexual slurs at all the patrons that were present and attacked the three victims." Two of the men who were attacked took their story to the local paper, saying they are stepping forward to try and stop what they see as a worsening anti-gay climate in the area. "I used to be able to walk to work or back and forth to the store and nobody would pass and yell out slurs towards me," Matt Widner...
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Monday, July 28
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Source: Knoxville News Sentinel , WBIR TV , Out & About Knoxville, Tenn -- Police say that the man who killed two and wounded six others at a gay-affirming Knoxville church planned and staged his attack at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in order to kill liberals "who are ruining the country." Jim David Adkisson, 58, of Powell wrote a four-page letter in which he stated his "hatred of the liberal movement," Knoxville Police Chief Sterling P. Owen IV said Monday morning. "Liberals in general, as well as gays." More than 200 people were packed into...
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Tuesday, May 06
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Source: WLMT-TV ABC24 , WMC-TV , AP via Tenneseean , NBC News via WCSH Memphis, TN - At Monday night's Memphis School Board meeting, a small but vocal group of parents and community members gathered in the back of the auditorium waiting to speak their minds about a high school principal who outed two gay students at her school. "I'm disgusted," Memphis parent Natasha Burnett told WLMT's Eyewitness News Everywhere . "I'm disgusted by it." A letter from the American Civil Liberties Union that was made public last week accuses the principal of Hollis F. Price Middle...
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Monday, May 05
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Source: WLMT-TV ABC24 Memphis, TN -- One of the gay honor students allegedly outed against his will by his high-school principal told WLMT TV that he thinks the principal, Daphne Beasley, should get some education of her own. The ACLU says Beasley made a list of couples in her school so she could cut down on inappropriate displays of public affection on the college campus where the high school is located. On the list that was visible to anyone entering Beasley's office were Nicholas and Andrew, two young men who had recently started dating. Nicholas, who says getting an apology is the most...
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Friday, May 02
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Source: Eyewitness News, Memphis Memphis City Schools is defending a high school principal who was charged by the ACLU with violating the rights of two gay students whose names were posted to a list of student couples. In a letter released yesterday, the school district says that the at Hollis F. Price Middle College principal, Daphne Beasley, acted properly in compiling the list and notifying parents. The letter says that Beasley's list of "children she knew to be involved romantically" was appropriate because "such behavior" is a violation of school conduct codes. In a...
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Tuesday, April 29
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Source: WPTY TV , ACLU press release MEMPHIS, TN -- A Memphis high school principal who "outed" two gay high school students in September 2007 violated the students' constitutional right to freedom of association, the American Civil Liberties Union charged today. The ACLU said Daphne Beasley, the principal of Hollis F. Price Middle College High School, publicly told teachers and staff over the school's intercom system that she wanted the names of all student couples, "hetero and homo," because she wanted to monitor them personally to prevent students from engaging in...
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Wednesday, April 23
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Source: MetroPulse , New York Times KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Nobody who knows the area's football history disputes the accomplishments of Jackie Walker, a local high school football star and pioneering all-American linebacker at Tennessee from 1969 through ’71. At Fulton High School here, he averaged 23 tackles a game his senior season. He went on to become the first African-American football player in the Southeastern Conference to be named an all-American and the first to captain an SEC team. And almost four decades after his college career ended, and six years after his death, Walker remains...
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Tuesday, February 19
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Source: Knoxville News Sentinel , Tennessean , and Nashville City Paper NASHVILLE - A House subcommittee today killed legislation proposed by state Rep. Stacey Campfield to prohibit discussion of homosexuality in Tennessee elementary and middle schools. The move came after spokesmen for the Tennessee Education Association, the American Civil Liberties Union and the state Department all spoke against the Knoxville Republican's bill. Basically, they said it is not needed and puts the Legislature in the business of dictating school curriculum -- decisions best left to the State Board of Education...
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Monday, January 07
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Source: Tennessean MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Holy Cross Church lost most of its members Sunday. They left to form Faith Anglican Fellowship, saying they believe the Episcopal Church has strayed from its core doctrine and from Scripture on the role of Christ and on homosexuality. The Rev. Frederick Richardson, who has led Holy Cross, a Murfreesboro Episcopal mission church, since December 2000 and will head the new Anglican fellowship, said his church and the national Episcopal Church were going in opposite directions. "We felt like it was the healthiest option for our congregation," Richardson...
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