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UNRELATED: Once again we thank JMG reader Dave Evans, our devoted video clipper who scours the networks for LGBT-related news items. You folks would never see many of these segments were it not for Dave’s hard work at funneling them to us here.

(Via – Buzzfeed)

Michael Jones reports at Change.org: “Students impacted by the continued presence of Chick-fil-A on campus have come forward today to file formal discrimination complaints within the Judicial Affairs office of the university against the university’s Chancellor, Una Mae Reck,” said Jason Moreno, a student at IUSB and a spokesperson for the Civil Rights Student Association. “Chancellor Reck has continued to …

“From the patriarchal days of Sodom and Gomorrah to the Law of Moses to the New Testament, God’s Word consistently declares that homosexuality is sin and warns of the condemnation it brings to the individuals who practice it and to societies that promote it. Indeed, the rampant teaching of evolution in our schools that is effectively undermining belief in God …

Once again, MSNBC’s midday team gives the proper attention and reaction to an issue involving LGBT youth.

Tennessee’s state Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a bill banning the mention of homosexuality in public schools prior to the ninth grade. Such a bill could derail any potential lessons on anti-gay bullying. The law is the pet project of state Sen. Stacey Campfield (left), who has introduced it six years in a row. As introduced, the bill would have …

The roommate of Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi (left) was today indicted on hate crime charges stemming from the secret webcasting of Clementi having sex with another man. Clementi leaped from the George Washington Bridge last year after learning about the broadcast. Dharun Ravi, a former Rutgers University student, was indicted on 15 counts including charges of invasion of privacy, bias …

A new study out of Oregon indicates that gay kids that grow up in a supportive environment are 20% less likely to attempt suicide. We knew this, of course, but now there’s some science behind it. About 1400 — or between 4 and 5 percent — of teens surveyed identified themselves as being gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Of those students, …

According to the deep thinkers at Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum, Arizona State’s new school logo is promoting communism. The Sun Devils of ASU are gearing up for this year’s football season with redesigned uniforms and logos. The school is promoting this greatly anticipated change with several YouTube videos. Several of these videos end with an image of a clenched fist. …

The SPLC-certified hate group MassResistance has today published the below editorial on at least a dozen right-wing sites and blogs. Welcome students. Today is the big day. Today is your chance to take a stand against the forces of bigotry and homophobia that unfairly targets our brothers, sisters and others in the gay, lesbian, transgendered, bisexual and gender optional community. …

California’s education bill requiring that notable LGBT people be positively portrayed in textbooks was passed yesterday by the state Senate. If the bill is adopted by the state Assembly and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, California would become the first state to require the teaching of gay history. Supporters say the move is needed to counter anti-gay stereotypes and beliefs …

“School administrators have frequently denied sponsoring, participating in, or allowing the ‘Day of Silence,’ but are nonetheless allowing students to be silent without consequences. Even some teachers will ‘go silent,’ writing pro-homosexuality messages on boards, and setting up classroom displays to teach impressionable children that aggressive homosexual activists are ‘victims,’ that more laws promoting their agenda are needed, when there …

People For The American Way today issued an extensive expose of the tactics used by the Christianist right to keep anti-gay bullying legal and frequent. An excerpt: Rather than recognize and address the problem of bullying against students who are gay or perceived to be gay, Religious Right groups want schools to embrace a policy of inaction. Many resort to …

Focus On The Family’s Stuart Shephard hosts anti-gay activist Candi Cushman and her ratty hairpiece to explain how Christianist students are going to harass LGBT kids in the loving name of Jeebus. The Focus-sponsored “Day Of Dialogue” is this Monday. Up until last year, this annual bashing-fest was run by the “ex-gay” liars at Exodus International.

UPDATE: The story I reported early this morning has been revealed to be false. I should have listened to my gut before posting it. A UNC-Chapel Hill freshman who told police he was attacked by a man who burned his hand and called him an anti-gay slur made a false report, the university says. In a message just released to …

The “ex-gays” at PFOX are asking students, parents, and teachers to distribute their brochures during this week’s Day Of Silence. Because since the pro-gay kids will be silent, they can’t complain. “We invite schools to distribute our ex-gay brochures year round,” said Regina Griggs, PFOX’s executive director, “but this Friday is especially important because it is considered a ‘day of …

As you might expect, this story is all over the wingnut blogs this week. While the majority of the second-grade parents were in support of the field trip, the school is under fire by a handful of parents* who questioned whether the Castro is an appropriate destination for 8-year-old boys. One parent in particular reached out to SFGate and expressed …