Tag Archives: Buffalo

The Buffalo News reports: For more than 30 years, Timothy J. Clark lived with the emotional scars of being sexually abused by a parish priest. The name of the man who allegedly assaulted Clark remained a closely guarded secret. Clark didn’t want to talk much about it. Bishops for the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo refused to acknowledge anything about priests …

The Buffalo News reports: The Buffalo Public Schools have a new gender identity policy to dictate how transgender students are treated. The polarizing policy allows a transgender student to use the restroom and locker room that corresponds to the student’s consistently expressed gender identity at school. Students can access the alternate restrooms as soon as their parent or legal guardian …

Via Mediaite: Today was San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s first start of the season after the team benched prior starter Blaine Gabbert and turned to the guy who led them to the Super Bowl a few short years ago. With the 49ers playing in Buffalo, some vendors outside the stadium decided to use the anger many fans have towards the …

A time lapse of Buffalo weather. (Tipped by JMG reader Blair)

New York state Sen. Mark Grisanti was one of the four Republicans who pushed same-sex marriage into the win column. Since then he’s been the subject of relentless attacks by NOM, who has vowed to unseat him this fall. The source of the above flyer is not yet clear, but Buzzfeed reporter Chris Geidner is chasing down rumors that it …

The Buffalo News reports that the students who literally bullied Jamie Rodemeyer to death are getting off light. “[The police] shared some information with us, and we followed up,” Superintendent Scott Martzloff said. “We made the determination to take disciplinary action.” He declined to say how many students were suspended. Though based on Amherst police findings, it’s likely that several …

As we learned last month, the sister of 14 year-old bullying victim Jamey Rodemeyer was taunted with chants of “We’re glad he’s dead!” at a school event on the day of her brother’s wake. The school has finally taken action. School district superintendent Scott Martzloff confirmed that the student had been suspended and would be punished “to the fullest extent …

Buffalo-area police are considering filing criminal charges against the students who allegedly bullied 14 year-old gay teen Jamey Rodemeyer into killing himself. No bullying laws exist in New York State, according to Camilleri, so police would have to determine whether aggravated harassment charges fit this case. Whether suspects would be tried in juvenile court would depend on whether the alleged …

Heartbroken Buffalo parents Tracy and Tim Rodemeyer say they found their 14 year-old son Jamey dead yesterday morning in a presumed suicide. Jamey had long complained of vicious homophobic bullying at the hands of his classmates. Jamey Rodemeyer needed help. At 14, he was grappling with adolescent demons that could torment grown men. And when he was online, he wrote …

From Buffalo’s wingnut talk radio station. Already launched: a complaint campaign against the station.

Denied a license to marry her partner Cheryl, Buffalo, New York lesbian Kitty Lambert turned to ask if any random man would marry her. Here’s how it went down. In an act of civil-sorta-disobedience, local LGBT activist Kitty Lambert received a marriage license to a stranger named Ed at Buffalo’s City Hall today, after being denied a license to marry …

Last week a young man (who says he is not gay) was beaten, pepper-sprayed, and robbed by two women who followed him outside a Buffalo, New York mall while shouting anti-gay epithets. Yesterday the victim reported that one of his assailant’s boyfriend threatened him with another beating if he testified. This threat came in the courthouse itself, where its maker …

Lead by the local gay activism group OUTSpoken For Equality, hundreds of Buffalo’s citizens blocked Westboro Baptist Church picketers from the view of mourners attending the funerals of residents killed in last week’s horrific plane crash. Westboro’s “Planes Crash, God Laughs” signs were blocked by the now-traditional angel wings invented by Romaine Patterson at Matthew Shepard’s funeral.