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Wednesday, October 29

B.S.

"A Bay Area elementary school got caught in the crossfire of a ballot initiative seeking to outlaw same-sex marriage in California on Tuesday after a kindergarten teacher asked her pupils to sign pledge cards promising not to use anti-gay slurs. ProtectMarriage.com, the coalition of social and religious...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-29-2008
Thursday, October 23

(Irate) Words…

"The schools need to get out of the bedroom and back to the 3 R’s. This is why Johnny still can’t read because the children are being used as pawns to further a political agenda. We should be helping them out of that lifestyle, not helping them into it." - Oh-so-concerned parent Kathy Reese...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-23-2008
Monday, October 20

Recall!

Remember how the right-wing took over American River College's student council and then came out against gay marriage? Well, the students organized a recall vote and now 9 out of 15 council members may be ousted. [The Mercury News] Permalink | post a comment | Add to del.icio.us |...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-20-2008
Thursday, October 16

Grade-A Teachers…

California's teachers have the right idea! The California Teachers Association this week gave another $1 million to fight proposition 8, a ballot measure meant to overturn this year's gay marriage win. The donation, which comes after an earlier $250,000 offering, makes the CTA the biggest institutional...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-16-2008
Wednesday, October 08

Going Gay!

Louisiana's moving up in the gay world: "The victories of two openly gay school board candidates in Louisiana mark the election of the state’s first two openly gay elected officials. Victory endorsee Thomas Robichaux and Seth Bloom both won their elections to the Orleans Parish School Board...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-08-2008
Wednesday, September 03

Lived Experience…

"Of political scientists who identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered, 13 percent said that they had definitely experienced discrimination as a political scientist because of their identity, 12 percent said that they “probably” had experienced discrimination, 31 percent said that they...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 09-03-2008
Tuesday, July 01

"Standing Firm."

“The Netherlands’ 165 staunchly Protestant schools are standing firm on sacking homosexual teachers who are in a relationship with another man or woman, the Volkskrant reports on Tuesday. The schools made their standpoint clear in a paper on homosexuality which was presented to education minister...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 07-01-2008
Thursday, June 26

Schooling.

“A Lake County school district has agreed to implement a comprehensive program to address anti-gay harassment to settle a complaint lodged by the family of a 14-year-old boy who said he was bullied… Under the settlement announced Wednesday, the Upper Lake Union Elementary School District...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 06-26-2008
Tuesday, June 10

Hold Up.

A South Carolina school district meant to vote on banning all clubs to prevent gay inclusion has delayed their vote until later in the month. [Charlotte Observer]

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 06-10-2008

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