The Truth About GLSEN’s School Climate Report

Focus on the Family cites George Rekers in fighting anti-bullying efforts
"Enter key terms in the search function like 'Lesbian,' 'gay,' 'Sexual Orientation' and 'gender identity'...and if you start pulling up a lot of books with Homosexual themes, that's a real red flag to you because technically, the library should reflect the school Curriculum," Cushman explains. "It's also a place teachers can go to pull out resources for use in the classroom." It also seems that a major bone of contention of Cushman and Focus on the Family is a booklet which was put out by GLSEN...

2009 National School Climate Survey: Nearly 9 out of 10 LGBT Students Experience Harassment in School
hearing homophobic remarks; however, LGBT Students' experiences with more severe forms of Bullying and harassment have remained relatively constant. "In 1999, GLSEN began data collection on the school experiences of LGBT Students in order to fill a critical void in our knowledge and understanding of the ways LGBT issues play out in schools. It could not be clearer that there is an urgent need for action to create safe and affirming schools for LGBT Students," GLSEN Executive Director Eliza Byard...

In wake of anti-lgbt youth climate, Focus on the Family attacks GLSEN
crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters Candi Cushman of Focus on the Family just released a critique of GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network)'s recent School climate report. GLSEN's report found that in 2009:  . . . 7,261 middle and High School Students found that at School nearly 9 out of 10 LGBT Students experienced harassment at School in the past year and nearly two-thirds felt unsafe because of their Sexual Orientation. Nearly a third of LGBT...

Taste and Morals - Oysters and Snails
Hollywood and Homosexuals, it’s like chocolate chip cookies and milk - only sometimes you drop the cookie in the milk and it becomes a soggy mess. Over the years Hollywood has portrayed Gay men as sissies, Lesbians as the perfect turn-on for the straight man, Bisexuals as psychopathic killers and Transgender people as the brunt of the jokes or life of the party. It has also portrayed us in more positive lights, usually in lower Budget films, but still in a positive light (i.e....

Openly Gay Johnson & Wales Student Raymond Chase Commits Suicide; Campus Pride Demands National Action to address LGBT Youth Bullying, Harassment & Suicide
In the wake of two college Suicides Tyler Clementi of Rutgers University& Raymond Chase of Johnson & Wales, Campus Pride reissues findings and recommendations from the "2010 State of Higher Education for LGBT People" released last week at a U.S. congressional briefing on Capitol Hill (Providence, RI) Campus Pride, the nations leading Non-profit organization working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) and ally college and University Students, offers its condolences and...

NJ student's suicide resonates on campus, beyond
"To this poor kid, it's better to be dead than to have people know he's gay," said Jean-Marie Navetta, a spokeswoman for Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. "Therein lies the real tragedy here." Clementi's death was part of a string of Suicides last month involving youngsters who were believed to have been Victims of Anti-gay Bullying. Fifteen-year-old Billy Lucas hanged himself in a barn in Greensburg, Ind. Asher Brown, 13, shot himself in the head in Houston. And 13-year-old Seth Walsh...

Bullying Drives Student to Suicide
May be a screen capture JPG that links to the video player, or an embedded video from an external source like YouTube.com May be a screen capture JPG that links to the video player, or an embedded video from an external source like YouTube.com --> Billy Lucas, a 15-year-old High School freshman from Greensburg, Ind., took his own life Thursday following a period of antigay Bullying from classmates that went unaddressed. Lucas was found dead inside his familys barn Thursday, where he had...

Goodwill works with transgender org
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Weekly Reader: Transgender Pinocchio, Gay Monsters, & Roasting a Lame Duck
While we brought you ongoing coverage this week of " Cupcakegate " after an Indianapolis bakery refused to sell cupcakes or cookies to LGBT organizations for National Coming Out Day - including the outpouring of support from Indy residents and businesses - there were plenty of other fantastic posts on Bilerico Project this week. Did you miss any of these? Sunday

Kern Backers Go From Calling Novotny a "Confused It" to "He"
A few weeks ago Charlie Meadows, founder and Chairman of the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee which is backing militantly Anti-gay state Rep. Sally Kern, sent out an email to supporters calling Kern's Transgender opponent, Brittany Novotny, "a confused it." Needless to say, Meadows' childish Bigotry generated an outcry, so now he has backed off .... and is referring to Novotny as "he" :  The head of a conservative group no longer calls Oklahoma's...

A Click and a Laugh - and a Death
To the Young People in our community: Im your rabbi. As such, I am occasionally asked to share a few words or thoughts when bad things happen to good People. In this case, I want to write some words directly to you about Tyler Clementis tragic Suicide last week. If you havent read about it, you can read a story about it here . Tyler was secretly filmed having a sexual encounter with another guy on the Rutgers campus. That scene was broadcast online, to his own humiliation, which...

San Francisco Goodwill store hires transgender people
In this economy, it's tough for anyone to find a job, but for one segment of the population it's especially difficult. So one local store is knocking down barriers and putting them on the Payroll. An estimated 70 percent of Transgender people in California face workplace Discrimination. This is the first Goodwill in the nation to provide training and job skills. It's a temporary store, but those involved in the program think it will have long-term effects. Mia Tu Mutch, 19, says Discrimination...

Look Who's Stalking!
The creepy Assistant MI Attorney General and noted PeeWee Herman look-alike, Andrew Shirvell, is taking a “leave of absence” from his state duties. Shirvell is best known for stalking an Openly Gay University of Michigan Student, Christopher Armstrong. You see, Armstrong wanted to open up the dorms to being co-ed to help transgendered Students. This is against Jeebus’ will, according to Shrivell, and hence it is his duty as a Xristian Xrazy to do something about it, so the...

Tonight: Moment of Silence for 5 Youth Who've Died By Suicide
Editor's Note: Charles Robbins is the Executive Director of The Trevor Project , the Non-profit organization that operates the only nationwide, around-the-clock crisis and Suicide prevention helpline for Lesbian, gay, Bisexual, Transgender and questioning youth . Late last night, The Trevor Project learned of yet another young LGBTQ person who died by Suicide. Raymond Chase was a sophomore at Johnson and Wales University in Rhode Island when he took his own life on Wednesday. Words do not...

Liberty Counsel's Matt Barber stands up for gay persecution
crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters In a hysterical screed published by the American Family Association's One News Now , Matt Barber of the Liberty Counsel sets his aim at the United Nations: The United Nations is pressing for acceptance of the Homosexual lifestyle worldwide, which was made evident during a recent Human Rights meeting in Geneva. A written statement from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on U.N. members to abolish laws that discriminate against...

Kern Backers Go From Calling Novotny a "Confused It" to "He"
A few weeks ago Charlie Meadows, founder and Chairman of the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee which is backing militantly Anti-gay state Rep. Sally Kern, sent out an email to supporters calling Kern's Transgender opponent, Brittany Novotny, "a confused it." Needless to say, Meadows' childish Bigotry generated an outcry, so now he has backed off .... and is referring to Novotny as "he" :  The head of a conservative group no longer calls Oklahoma's...

Stonewall *insert rage here*
Stonewall *insert rage here* Back in May, when the newly formed Coalition Government announced a consultation for next year on Transgender rights, part of me smiled and part of me sighed. The part that smiled was obviously the part that feels Transgender equality has progressed far too slowly. The part that sighed, however, knew that considering the rights of transgendered people separately from LGB rights would lead to opportunities for people and organizations to interfere. And I don’t...

Where We Are On TV Report 2010-2011 Season
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) representations have increased for the third year in a row to a record percentage according to an analysis of the 2010-2011 scripted Primetime broadcast television season conducted by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).  The Where We Are on TV report forecasts the expected presence of LGBT characters in the upcoming 2010-2011 television schedule. The study shows that LGBT representations will account for 3.9% of all...

School Bullying: A National Pandemic Disease
But LGBT Bullying won't end if we separate it from Bullying suffered by other Students. With Gay History Month starting, it's a good moment to put our demographic Suicide problem into a bigger perspective. School Bullying is a contagious social Cancer that is invading America's whole body. Now that we know Cancer can be caused by viruses, we can say that Bullying is a national pandemic, no less lethal than AIDS or a fulminating flu. The Suicides it causes are threatening the lives of thousands...

Oklahoma City district pushes pause on hip-hop curriculum
Oklahoma City district pushes pause on Hip-Hop Curriculum Oklahoma City Public Schools purchased Flocabulary, an education tool that uses rap and Hip-Hop to engage at-risk Students, but complaints have caused administrators to take a second look.  

New Hip-Hop Curriculum for 'At-Risk' Students Calls Founding Fathers 'Old Dead White Men'...
I’m sure filling ‘troubled youths’ minds with anti-American poison will help them become better Students and human beings… (NewsOK) - Concern over a new Hip-Hop Curriculum that refers to the Founding Fathers as “old dead white men” has delayed the program’s rollout for at-risk Students, Oklahoma City Public Schools Superintendent Karl Springer said. “We’re making sure that whatever we do, first, we do no harm,” Springer...

Discipleship has become mere Bible study?
https://www.pastors.com/blogs/ministrytoolbox/archive/2010/09/30/have-we-become-satisfied-with-discipleship-as-mere-bible-study.aspx When Dietrich Bonheoffer wrote his classic, The Cost of Discipleship , he believed the church had lost its focus on Jesus and, therefore, had lost the meaning of discipleship because biblical discipleship is inseparably bonded to Jesus. Without the intimate presence of Jesus, there can be no discipleship: he is the Curriculum we study; he is the Word we...

Christine O'Donnell Falsely Claims to Have Studied at Oxford
The GOP’s anti-wanking, anti-evolution Candidate in Delaware, Christine O’Donnell, has been caught in another “embellishment” of her education record; her bio claims she attended the University of Oxford, but as Greg Sargent details , the truth is she attended one course from an organization called the Phoenix Institute, that rented space at Oxford. Chris Fletcher, who oversaw the Institute’s 2001 Oxford Summer Programme, which included the course O’Donnell...

Defense Department school students earn high marks on TerraNova test
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Defense Department Students made gains in a majority of subject areas on the 2010 TerraNova test and scored above the national average across the board, educators announced Tuesday. In the Department of Defense Education Activity, 50,139 Students in grades 3 to 11 were assessed last spring in reading, language, math, science and Social Studies. Their scores were then compared to the baseline — a national norm group of about 350,000 stateside Students who...

DPS to join Teen Court education program
The Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy and Detroit Public Schools officials today announced that two high schools - Denby and Southeastern High - have remodeled classrooms to resemble court rooms. The prosecutor's office will divert juveniles who have no preovious record to Teen Court where a jury of Students will determine the sentence. Offenders who do not adhere to the sentencing guidelines will face charges in juvenile court. The sentences cannot involve any detention, but typically involve...