4 out of 5 LGBT students report verbal, sexual or physical harassment at school, according to a GLSEN survey.
Today, April 25th, 2008, marks the 12th Annual Day of Silence, a day where students vow to take a pledge of silence to commemorate anti-LGBT violence and bullying and work to make campuses safe for people of all gender and sexual identities.
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Transgender male, Thomas Beatie, writes a first person narrative at The Advocate detailing the personal, legal, and social hurdles he faces now that he's decided to carry the child of his wife, Nancy.
After Thomas Coen said Wesleyan was “the most accepting school” of alternative lifestyles [Update: I put these words in his mouth. He was, however, hyping up Wesleyan.], I did some research to put his alma mater to the test. I knew that the Connecticut school was a bastion of tolerance and political correctness from my friends there who told me they write essays with gender-neutral pronouns. Campus Progress’ resident Wesleyan grads, Thomas and Ben Adler, reinforced that image by unflinchingly rattling off an “endless acronym” of sexually dissonant identities: “LGBTTQQFAGIPBDSM, etc.,” which stands for Lesbian, Gay , Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Queer, Questioning, Flexual, Asexual, Genderqueer, Intersex, Polyamourous, BDSM (bondage/ disciple, dominance/ submission, sadism/ masochism), and everything we might have forgotten.
But is Wesleyan really the most gay-friendly school in the country? According to the Princeton Review, it’s the sixteenth.
“The ACLU’s got to take a lot of blame for this. ... And I know that I’ll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say: “You helped this happen.”
The founder of Moral Majority, the evangelist who made hate speech profitable and established fundamentalists as a viable political force, Jerry Falwell has died at age 73.
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