Tag Archives: GLSEN

LGBT Youth Make It Better

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You Are The Champions Of Freeping

Many thanks to all that participated in yesterday’s freeping of Pepsi’s “big ideas” contest as GLSEN finished in second place and WON the $250,000 grant for their safe schools project! You guys rock! JMG reader Tom notes via email: “Based on the rankings it [also] appears Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) got a $25k award, as did a …

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Freep This Poll For GLSEN

Pespi is giving away boatloads of money to organizations that have “great ideas” and today is the final day to vote for the Gay & Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN), who wants to place Safe Space kits in 10,000 public schools. Right now GLSEN is in third place to win a $250,000 grant for the project. Note: You can vote …

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Focus On The Family Defends Their Fight Against Anti-Bullying Programs

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Tweet Of The Week – GLSEN

Some excellent news to close out a mostly crummy week. Congratulations to GLSEN and their fellow advocates for LGBT youth! UPDATE: GLSEN executive director Eliza Byard writes: “Thank you so much for the shout out for GLSEN! However, the real champions on that legislation are Shannon Sullivan and the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance, our amazing friends and partners in this …

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Today: GLSEN’s Day Of Silence

Today is GLSEN’s national annual Day Of Silence in which students draw attention to anti-gay bullying by pledging to remain silent at school (except during class when required.) GLSEN is asking to students to Tweet The Silence to remind others. Anti-gay groups have called for Christian students to walk out of class today in an effort to punish participating schools …

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PFOX: Give Our Flier Out At Day Of Silence

“Ex-gay” group PFOX wants their anti-gay flier given out at any school that participates in GLSEN’s Day Of Silence this Friday. Their flier (PDF) reads in part: Every year thousands of people with unwanted same-sex attractions make the personal decision to leave a gay identity through non-judgmental environments. Their decision is one only they can make. However, there are those …

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Marching Orders

Anti-gay groups are issuing their final directions for Christian students to walk out of any school that participates in this year’s GLSEN Day Of Silence next Friday. The below is a joint message to parents from evil twin vipers Laurie Higgins (Illinois Family Institute) and Linda Harvey (Mission America). Explain to your children why you’re taking a stand:a. Homosexual behavior …

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Anti-Gay Liberty Counsel Peddles Fake Anti-Gay Pediatricians Group

The Liberty Counsel has issued an alert that the so-called American College of Pediatricians has sent a warning to the nation’s educators to be on the lookout for students “experiencing same-sex attraction or gender confusion.” The letter reminds school superintendents that it is not uncommon for adolescents to experience transient confusion about their sexual orientation and that most students will …

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Remembering Carl Walker-Hoover

It was one year ago that 11 year-old Carl Walker-Hoover hung himself in his bedroom closet after being relentlessly tormented by anti-gay bullies at his school. GLSEN requests that you honor Carl today by signing their petition that Congress pass the Safe School Environments Act, a federal bill that would provide funding for schools to prevent and respond to incidents …

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Concerned Women Are Concerned That Gay Kids Don’t Get Beaten Enough

Concerned Women For America have issued an endorsement of the plan for Christian children to walk out of school during GLSEN’s Day Of Silence. The pro-homosexual “Day of Silence” (DOS) is coming to your child’s school again. The nationally scheduled date is April 16, 2010. While wearing the mask of a “safe schools” program, this is actually a movement to …

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Ex-Gay Sadists Exodus International’s Campaign In Support Of Anti-Gay Bullying

The “ex-gay” sadists at Exodus International are endorsing the beating, bullying, and torturing of gay youth through their Day Of Truth campaign against GLSEN’s coming Day Of Silence. Below they interview students at the University of Central Florida (second mention of my alma mater today, but not as funny), asking them about God’s view on homosexuality. Jeremy at Good As …

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Christian Groups Announce Annual Day Of Support For Anti-Gay Bullying

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 …

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NYC Schools: Respect For All Week

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 …

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Exodus International Launches Campaign In Support Of Anti-Gay Bullying

GLSEN’s national Day Of Silence is six weeks away, but the “ex-gay” mental cases at Exodus International have already launched their “Day Of Truth” campaign to stop students from being taught that it’s wrong to beat up and harass gay kids. According to Exodus, the anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund is standing by with 1200 attorneys to represent anybody that faces …

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Chase Bank $1M Prize Finalists: GLSEN, Trevor Project, Matthew Shepard FDN

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.

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LGBT Groups Score In Chase Bank’s Holiday Giving Contest

After Queerty raised the alarm that NOM was on the list of charities for Chase Bank’s holiday giving contest, Chase promptly booted them from the competition. Today Chase released the names of the 100-most vote-getting charities, all of whom will receive a $25,000 grant. And woo hoo, there’s some LGBT groups on the list: GLSEN, Matthew Shepard Foundation, and The …

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Singalong: Santa Claus Is Coming Out

JMG reader Sean Chapin turns in this sing-a-long response to yesterday’s story about Focus On The Family’s hissy fit regarding GLSEN’s Xmas play.

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GLSEN: Santa Claus Is Coming OUT!
Haters: Stop Mocking Our Mythical Icons!

The Gay & Lesbian Straight Education Network will be hosting a fundraiser in NYC on Dec. 8th. And of course the haters of gay children are screaming. Hang on for delirious ranting from Focus On the Family. Yet more evidence revealing the dark side of GLSEN–the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network—has surfaced. (GLSEN is the group founded by President …

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Coming Out In Middle School

This weekend’s New York Times Magazine features a lengthy Benoit Denizet-Lewis piece on kids that come out in middle school. An excerpt: Though most adolescents who come out do so in high school, sex researchers and counselors say that middle-school students are increasingly coming out to friends or family or to an adult in school. Just how they’re faring in …

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