Tag Archives: gay youth

“When it first started, I just wanted to take my girlfriend to prom, you know? I thought it might make the local news and maybe help future LGBT students at Itawamba because hopefully they wouldn’t have to put up with what I did. I sure didn’t expect any of this kind of attention. [snip] “Anytime I feel like this is …

As they did last year, a massive coalition of Christian groups has announced their intention to have their children walk out of any public school participating in next month’s Day Of Silence, a GLSEN-sponsored event meant to educate kids that it’s wrong to beat up gay students. From the Day Of Silence Walkout site: The explicit purpose of DOS is …

Mississippi teen Constance McMillen appeared on the Wanda Skyes Show to talk about her canceled prom. (Wanda surprises Constance by asking to her to be the presenter of Wanda’s upcoming GLAAD award.) There has been a huge national outpouring of support for Constance, with many offers of money and venues to host a gay friendly prom. The ACLU is suing …

Mississippi teen Constance McMillen’s daddy is not only ridiculously hot, he supports his gay daughter. This national outpouring of support for Constance is, in my reckoning, unprecedented. Major national LGBT organizations could work all year and never create such a perfect storm of media attention focused on an attractive, well-spoken, sympathetic figure. Please strike while the issue is hot and …

Mississippi teen Constance McMillen’s story about the cancellation of her prom because she wants to bring a female date has gone national. Virtually every network (except Fox) has sympathetically covered the story and her Facebook support page now has over 66,000 members. This morning she appeared on the CBS Early Show with her ACLU lawyer. Fellow students are telling Constance, …

JMG reader Sean Chapin has launched a YouTube news channel called Homophobic Watch. His first report is about lesbian Mississippi high schooler Constance McMillen. Watch this.

All Constance McMillen wanted was to bring her girlfriend to her high school prom, but a Mississippi school board has canceled the event entirely rather than allow lesbians to attend. “Due to the distractions to the educational process caused by recent events, the Itawamba County School District has decided to not host a prom at Itawamba Agricultural High School this …

This is Respect For All Week in NYC public schools, during which students will take diversity workshops and learn how to diffuse bullying and harassment. GLSEN is one of the NYC Department of Education’s partners in the program. “We applaud the Department of Education for recognizing the importance of the ongoing project of providing safe and effective learning environments for …

Roseanne Barr says she takes back what she said about Marie Osmond’s son. ”Michael’s friends and family say he was not gay. If that is true, then I owe a huge apology to the Osmond family and to Marie Osmond for the words I wrote here. I read several published sources before I said anything, but–I did not know him, …

“Marie Osmond’s poor gay son killed himself because he had been told how wrong and how sick he was every day of his life by his church and the people in it. Calling that ‘depression’ is a lie! Yet the Osmonds still talk lovingly about their church, saying nothing about its extremely anti-gay Crusade. Marie also has a gay daughter! …

“I grew up knowing a lot of gay men and it was never something that I even thought twice about — that some men were gay and some weren’t. And then I went to school and (for) the first time … I came across homophobia. I had never encountered it before. It shocked me. I have always hated anybody who …

Two parents are suing the Alameda County school district in California because they don’t want kids to be taught that it’s wrong to beat up gay kids. Kerry Cook and Serena Dietrich filed a suit Feb. 18 in Alameda County Superior Court that seeks to nullify the school board’s Dec. 8 vote to readopt Lesson 9 for Alameda’s elementary schools …

Linda Harvey at Mission America is screaming about Rep. Jared Polis’ federal bill to protect LGBT students from bullying and assault. Because beating the gay out of kids is the Christian way. The purpose of this bill is not what is being stated, but is quite simply to mandate in public schools one acceptable viewpoint on the issue of homosexuality, …

Spurred by the recent anti-gay cartoon published in the student newspaper, yesterday a large group of Notre Dame students rallied at the school’s administration building to demand that the school president accept a letter calling for a more inclusive and welcoming campus environment for LGBT students.

ABC announced today that Ugly Betty will end its run at the end the current season. After Elton’s Ed Kennedy wonders how things will wrap up: Does Betty marry Daniel? Does Wilhemina take over the world? Does Justin ever come out or get a first kiss? Can Marc and Amanda please have a spinoff? We don’t have the answers to …

Voting for the finalists in Chase Bank’s $1 million “Big Idea” charity contest begins today. Three worthy LGBT organizations made the final cut. Go vote for your favorite: GLSEN, The Trevor Project, or the Matthew Shepard Foundation.

The confessed killer of gay teen Jorge Mercado has been found competent to stand trial. Last month Juan Martinez Matos was ordered to undergo mental evaluation after exhibiting symptoms of what some said was a faked state of psychosis. Via Michael Lavers at Edge: “The quest for justice has begun,” Pedro Julio Serrano of the National Gay & Lesbian Task …

“Get all pro-homosexual and pro-promiscuity programs, literature, teachers, and counselors out of every school now. Remove “gay” clubs, Planned Parenthood at health fairs, and GLSEN- PFLAG- SIECUS activists. Cease all condom demonstrations, abortion referrals, on-site birth control dispensing, sexual orientation affirmation, and messing with children’s hearts, minds and bodies. Demand that schools uphold the traditional value of heterosexual identities, teach …

Lots of sites are posting their “Best of YouTube” recaps this week. We loved the parodies of NOM’s Gathering Storm ad, we giggled at all the Single Ladies tributes, and we got all teary-eyed over the many inspiring clips of impromptu marriage rallies/protests. But for me, one clip stands out above all the rest. Still makes me laugh, still chokes …

Juan Martinez Matos, the confessed killer of Puerto Rican gay teen Jorge Mercado, has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial for the time being. But is he faking it? Psychiatrist Rafael Cabrera urged Caguas Superior Court Judge Camila Jusino to send the 26-year old suspect, Juan Martínez Matos, back to the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Río Piedras to keep …