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Wednesday, October 29

"Humiliated" Educator Awarded Cash For Gay "Defamation"

South Africa has the world's most progressive constitution. We're talking anti-discrimination, gay marriage - the works. Yet, for some reason, a judge in the Rainbow Nation has decided that being portrayed as gay somehow counts as defamation. You'll recall that a school deputy principal...

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

Focus Hoping To Inject Anti-Gay Agenda Into Library Stacks

Focus On The Family sure has been busy! In addition to "predicting" a rampantly gay America under Barack Obama, the right-wing group has launched an initiative to infiltrate public schools. From the ever-homophobic OneNewsNow: Focus on the Family is conducting a project in Virginia, using students...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-29-2008
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
Monday, October 27

Troublesome…

"[A] survey of 6,209 middle and high school students found that nearly nine out of 10 LGBT students (86.2 percent) had experienced harassment at school in the past year. The survey also found that three-fifths (60.8 percent) felt unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation, and about one...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-27-2008
Thursday, October 23

Chicago Mayor Comes Out Against Gay High School

Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley's long been a pro-gay advocate, but that doesn't mean he's backing the city's potential gay high school. In fact, he's against it. One day after his handpicked school board put off a vote on the School for Social Justice Pride Campus, Daley explained...

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

Cali School Honcho Steps Up: Gay Nups Have Nothing To Do With Education

California's social conservatives thought they'd be a bit clever and claim gay marriage would require schools to teach youngsters all about same-sex nuptials. Thus, they urge voters to vote "Yes" on Proposition 8, which would overturn the state Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-23-2008
Wednesday, October 22

(Wise) Words…

"For better or for worse, the gay rights movement was an American Revolution that transformed our political and social landscape. And so my fellow straight Americans, if you want to understand the country you live in today … read your gay history." - Columbia Professor David Eisenbach...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-22-2008
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
Friday, October 17

Opting Out…

"In a lively meeting that drew more than 100 people, the Vista Unified school board decided Thursday night to stay out of the debate over same-sex marriages. By a 3-2 vote, school district trustees declined to take a position on Proposition 8, an initiative that would amend the state constitution...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-17-2008

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