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Michigan may be about to repeal its domestic partners coverage for state employees, prompting the threat of a mass exodus of LGBT university professors and others. “I question my decision to come to Michigan,” Coetzee said. When Coetzee accepted a job at U-M, he also turned one down at New York University. “I chose Michigan because it just seemed better. …

Everybody say “Awwww.” Via ABC News: Two California high school students became one of the first lesbian couples crowned homecoming king and queen in the nation this weekend. Rebeca Arellano, a senior at Patrick Henry High School, was made the school’s first female homecoming king when her name was announced Friday at a pep rally. “They were chanting my name …

Students at the University of Illinois were ready for Brother Jed’s visit. He’s the one with the “You Deserve Hell” sign. (Via – The Friendly Atheist)

Earlier this week I mentioned the campaign to allowed loaded concealed firearms on Virginia’s campuses. Unbelievably (or not) the group behind the effort will stage a rally at Virginia Tech. Supporters of concealed carry on college campuses have scheduled an all-day demonstration for Nov. 17 at Virginia Tech, the university where in 2007, 33 students and faculty were killed in …

Equality Ohio sends us this press release: This week, a 15-year-old teenager was severely beaten in his high school class room for being gay. The attack occurred at Union-Scioto High School in Chillicothe, Ohio, and was caught on camera as fellow class members watched one teen wait for the victim to enter the room, push him to the ground and …

Yet another teacher is in trouble for posting viciously anti-gay comments to Facebook. The school board is investigating, but Family Research Council head Tony Perkins says this is just another witchhunt by intolerant radical homofascists. First Amendment! More dead gay kids! Praise! Glory!

(Via – Think Progress)

Save California says that since the effort to repeal SB48 has failed, Christian parents must now remove their children from public schools. Or else they will be “mentally molested.” While some parents may initially find this solution uncomfortable or difficult, my question is this: How much worse does it have to get before you intervene? If a speeding car was …

Speaking on a local radio show, today NJ Gov. Chris Christie denounced public school teacher Vicki Knox, who last week posted an anti-gay tirade to her Facebook page. “I think that kind of example is not a positive one at all to be setting for folks who have such an important and influential position in our society. I’m really concerned …

“Homosexuality is a perverted spirit that has existed from the beginning of creation. The word of God refers to it often. That’s if you believe the Word to be truly God’s intended blueprint for his people. I have friends and loved ones who are practicing/ living as homosexuals. Yes I love can care about them. We hug and exchange gifts. …

This just hit my inbox: We Fought the Law and the Law Won Unfortunately we did not collect enough signatures to qualify the referendum to overturn SB48. That law will be in place in our schools at the first of next year. We thank all of you that worked so hard to provide the hundreds of thousands of signatures received. …

If openly gay NYC Councilman Daniel Dromm gets his way, public schools in Gotham may see their own version of California’s LGBT history bill. Queens City Council Member Daniel Dromm, who is openly gay, introduced a resolution asking the Department of Education to implement such a curriculum and acquire the textbooks needed to teach it. The announcement came on National …

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 …

And the students LOVED her.(Tipped by JMG reader Victor)

Finally we get the other side of the story in the case of the Fort Worth high school student allegedly suspended merely for saying he finds homosexuality morally wrong. A spokesman for an LGBT teachers organization reports in the Dallas Voice: He [the class teacher] reports (and has reported to his school) repeated acts of anti-gay harassment by several students …

Via Los Angeles Weekly: “Stop SB 48,” the group that wants to repeal a state law that allows California students to learn about important people in history who were gay, claimed in an email to supporters yesterday afternoon that its petition drive for a ballot measure will be successful. “The signed petitions are coming in at an incredible rate — …