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Over the horrified screams of Catholic groups, the Ontario government is ordering all schools to allow gay-straight alliance clubs. Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten said there would be no compromises. “Schools need to be safe places for kids to be themselves — and for some kids, that means being able to name a club a gay-straight alliance,” Ms. Broten said. …

“The Apostolic Truth Tabernacle is in Greensburg, Indiana. That’s the town where Billy Lucas was bullied to death for being perceived to be gay by his classmates. I wonder if they stood up and cheered at Apostolic Truth Tabernacle when Lucas died—hey, another homo in hell. I wonder if any of Lucas’s tormenters attend services at Apostolic Truth Tabernacle. And …

“I accept responsibility for and regret my thoughtless, insensitive, immature, stupid and childish choices that I made on Sept. 19, 2010, and Sept. 21, 2010. My behavior and actions, which at no time were motivated by hate, bigotry, prejudice or desire to hurt, humiliate or embarrass anyone, were nonetheless the wrong choices and decisions. I apologize to everyone affected by …

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Johnson & Johnson have teamed up with Walgreens and PFLAG on a Pride season project to raise money for anti-bullying campaigns. Fronting the effort is Betty DeGeneres, Ellen’s mom.

Noting his lack of a prior arrest record and the unlikeness that he will re-offend, today a New Jersey judged sentenced former Rutgers student Drarun Ravi to only 30 days in jail and probation in the case of the suicide of his gay roommate Tyler Clementi. More on the sentencing will follow shortly in this post. UPDATE: The probation period …

The New York Times reports that a number of gay activists are arguing for leniency in the case of Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers student who will be sentenced today for spying on his gay roommate Tyler Clementi, who leaped to his death from the George Washington Bridge after Ravi live-streamed his encounter with another man. In an op-ed article …

Andrew Belonsky has the story.

Political satirist Roy Zimmerman goes all Sweeney Todd on Mitt Romney’s bullying scandal. Hit his label at the bottom of this post for other great stuff from Zimmerman.(Tipped by JMG reader Rebecca)

American Bridge, the super-PAC formed by openly gay Media Matters founder David Brock, has quickly created a Tumblr to capitalize on the Romney bullying scandal.

According to the Washington Post, while in an expensive prep school Mitt Romney bullied a classmate for his perceived homosexuality and tackled the kid to hack off his dyed blond hair. John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond …

“What immediately became a meme amongst those criticizing Dan is that those who walked out of his talk felt bullied by him. But that’s impossible. People get bullied because of who they are: how they look and act, what they say and do. Perceived as being in some critical way weak or lacking, victims of bullies are selected for persecution; …

Yesterday many of the most widely read anti-gay sites in the nation launched a campaign against Dan Savage over comments he made two weeks ago during a speech before the National High School Journalism Conference. After Savage, with his usual frankness, pointed out the hypocrisy with which hate groups cherry-pick anti-gay quotes from the Bible, some of the students got …

It’s right out of the Soviet Union! Or something!