Tag Archives: LGBT youth

Anderson Cooper Interviews Clint McCance, Ellen, Parents Of Suicide Victims

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Arkansas School Board VP Clint McCance To Resign After Anti-Gay Facebook Tirade

Arkansas school board member Clint McCance announced on CNN tonight that he will be resigning. McCance has faced a week of national condemnation for celebrating the suicides of LGBT youth on his Facebook page “I’m sorry I’ve hurt people with my comments,” Clint McCance, vice-president of the Midland School District in Pleasant Plains, Arkansas said. “I’m sorry I made those …

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Oral Roberts’ Grandson – It Gets Better

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November 8th In NYC: Fundraising Concert For The Ali Forney Center

Monday, November 8th in New York City, the Ali Forney Center will stage a fundraising concert featuring Alan Cumming, David Raleigh, Billy Porter, and dance music star Ari Gold. It’s no secret. Our LGBT youth are suffering now more than ever before, as you may have seen in recent news. These teens need support, they need help, and most of …

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Anderson Cooper On Clint McCance

He may not be officially out, but Anderson Cooper is a consistent, articulate, and passionate advocate for his people, particularly its gay youth.

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LA Gay Men’s Chorus – It Gets Better

A soothing brain salve for all the hatred below, courtesy of the LA Gay Men’s Chorus and Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors. Feel better about the world for five minutes.

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Anti-Gay Christian Hate Groups Issue Joint Statement Denouncing Bullying Education

A coalition of the nation’s leading anti-gay Christian activists have issued a joint statement denouncing any attempt to teach Christian children that it’s wrong to beat gay kids. Authentic Christians will remember several key concepts from Scripture: 1. Homosexual behavior is always a sin, God’s plan for sexuality is male/female marriage, and God has not changed His mind about this …

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DNC Staffers – It Gets Better

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Tony Perkins: Gay Kids Kill Themselves Because They Know They’re Abnormal

Tony Perkins appeared on NPR today to declare that the rate of suicides among LGBT youths is so high because those kids know they are freaks. And not because they’re taught every day of their hopeless lives that God hates them. Via Right Wing Watch: Tony Perkins, president of the evangelical Family Research Council, says gay activists are exploiting the …

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ARKANSAS: School Board Member Celebrates Gay Suicides And AIDS

From Independence County, Arkansas: Midland School District board member Clint McCance took to Facebook to mock the suicides of LGBT youth and celebrate the deaths of gay people from AIDS. This is what the queer youth of Arkansas face in their schools. Repulsive. Another Facebook page calling for McCance’s firing has already appeared. It looks like the Midland School District …

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AFL-CIO President: It Gets Better

(Tipped by JMG reader Adam)

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi – It Gets Better

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Tweet Of The Day II – Barack Obama

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Turtle Creek Chorale – It Gets Better

Clip description: On October 18, 2010, members of Dallas’ Turtle Creek Chorale joined singers from over 30 area religious institutions and students from Southern Methodist University in a performance titled, A Night For Peace. WIth just three rehearsals to prepare, the 300+ “Partners In Harmony” massed chorus offered a full-length concert, which concluded with Bach’s DONA NOBIS PACEM (Grant Us …

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HRC’s Bullying Bracelet

Andrew Sullivan calls this $3 item from the HRC “a new low.” Can’t say I disagree, but I’ve never missed an opportunity to mock those Lance Armstrong bracelets either.

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Majority Of Americans Agree: Churches Contribute To LGBT Suicides

A large majority of Americans, two-thirds in fact, believe that the way that churches treat gay people contributes to LGBT suicides. (This is probably self-apparent, to you.) Two out of three Americans believe gay people commit suicide at least partly because of messages coming out of churches and other places of worship, a survey released Thursday found. More than four …

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President Obama – It Gets Better

It’s a heartfelt, well-written, and sincerely delivered message. Let’s try to divorce this effort from “the other issue” and talk about what a message like this from the president of the United States might mean to a young queer kid. And once again, let’s thank Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller for what is easily the most successful and …

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Joel Burn’s Husband Joins Him On MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Show

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The Purple Bears of Seattle

Some of Seattle’s bears gathered last night to show support for GLAAD’s Spirit Day. I see at least a few JMG readers there! More photos at Andy Hahn’s Facebook page.

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Openly Gay Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns Speaks To Ellen DeGeneres

(Via – Victory Fund) RELATED: Burns has posted a YouTube message about his experience on the show. “You know you’re a redneck when your mom is more excited about meeting Jeff Foxworthy than Ellen DeGeneres.”

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