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Neff: Back to School
Published on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 by logointern3 Students across the country are venturing into classrooms for the 2010-11 school year. Some began their new studies in mid-August. Others will begin their new studies post-Labor Day. Many students, along with their parents and teachers, received some kind of orientation about how to make this new year a successful, safe, fun year. In a sampling of notices from some Fl... Read More » -
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Fla. martial arts acadmy wants to “man-up...
Published on Monday, August 16, 2010 by logointern1 Gay marriage opponents have long used parents’ fear of having gay children, but now it seems a martial arts academy is capitalizing on this fear too. The Academy of Martial Arts RDCA ran two ads showing a little boy participating in generally feminine practices: applying lipstick and wearing high heels. The ads have just too words other than the group’s log... Read More » -
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Corvino: What I learned at gay leadership cam...
Published on Friday, July 30, 2010 by logointern2 “Remind me, dear,” I said to my partner Mark on the way to the airport, “what I am absolutely, positively not doing again next year?” “You are not doing Camp next year,” he dutifully replied. We had repeated this dialogue many times in the weeks leading up to Campus Pride’s annual Leadership Camp, a week of intense workshops and other activities for LGBT... Read More » -
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Counseling student accuses school of forcing ...
Published on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 by logointern1 Jennifer Keeton, a 24-year-old graduate student at Augusta State University, is suing the school on first amendment grounds saying that ASU is forcing her to change her Christian beliefs that homosexuality is immoral and wrong. While the school has not yet been served the papers, Keeton will be represented by the socially conservative Alliance Defense Fund. Credit: AD... Read More » -
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Lesbian teen accepts Miss. school district’...
Published on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 by Jennifer Vanasco (Jackson, Miss.) A teenage lesbian who sued her school district over its ban of same-sex prom dates has accepted an offer to settle the case. American Civil Liberties Union attorneys representing Constance McMillen filed notice Monday in U.S. District Court to accept a judgment offer from the Itawamba County School District to pay $35,000, plus attorney’s fees. ... Read More » -
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Teen fashion trend? The gay best friend
Published on Sunday, July 11, 2010 by logointern3 “Teen Vogue” recently published an online article about the latest trend in high school fashion: the gay best friend (GBF). According to the article, the once-bullied gay high school boy is currently in high demand among the popular girls. “A few years ago, all the popular, pretty girls were walking hand in hand with a preppy jock,” one high school s... Read More » -
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Court splits sharply on campus Christian argu...
Published on Monday, April 19, 2010 by Jennifer Vanasco (Washington) Supreme Court justices seemed to split sharply on whether a law school can legally deny recognition to a Christian student group because it won’t let gays or non-Christians join. The court heard arguments from the Christian Legal Society, which wants recognition from the Hastings College of the Law. Lower courts threw out a lawsuit trying to force t... Read More » -
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Studies find patterns of Catholic clergy sex ...
Published on Monday, April 5, 2010 by Jennifer Vanasco The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2002 commissioned a series of surveys and studies on the roots of the clergy sex abuse crisis from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. Researchers’ findings so far have helped explain some patterns of abuse in America’s Roman Cath... Read More » -
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Culhane: How to stop gay bullying
Published on Thursday, April 1, 2010 by Jennifer Vanasco How can we stop the bullying against LGBT students? It turns out that sometimes, unfortunately, you have to sue the bastards. Recently, a lawsuit was settled between a bullied, gay high schooler from upstate New York and the school district and officials who permitted the mistreatment to go on for more than a year. Jacob, (or J.L., as he was known in the compla... Read More »