Originally posted by darkspirited1 at SIGNAL BOOST: SAY YES TO GAY YA
This comes from an article by rachelmanija entitled, Say Yes to Gay YA.
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Our novel Stranger has five viewpoint characters; one, Yuki Nakamura, is ( Read more... )

And Tango Makes Three (2005), the true story of two male penguins who hatch and parent a baby chick at New York's Central Park Zoo, tops the list of the most frequently challenged books of 2010, according to the American Library Association's (ALA) State of America's Libraries Report, which documents challenges and trends in library usage ( Read more... )

Should anti-gay protesters be allowed to protest and hand out literature to attendees of a gay pride festival?

Apparently it's an ongoing issue in Minneapolis/St.Paul, Minnesota, where a local religious douche bag wants to crash prideI think most of us would agree that free speech is typically paramount. But, this event has been going on for 30 ( Read more... )

So, there was a protest of Don't Ask, Don't Tell at Lafayette Park in front of the White House today, and the media was banished by police from covering it (and the rightful removal of the protesters, some of whom handcuffed themselves to the White House gates). Here's a short article, with a video.The park is iconic, and regularly has protesters ( Read more... )

In response to this thread, generally arguing in favor of government mandated non-discrimination (as opposed to moral persuasion and people generally not being dicks to each other), I present this opinion piece-

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8371/That pretty well describes the consequences of and arguments against things like ( Read more... )

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As we all know cameras aren't being allowed in the courtroom to record the Prop 8 trial...yet.

"In an amazing show of strength, 138,542 people (including thousands of Change.org members) asked for the Prop 8 trial to be televised, while only 32 objected."

Edit: I somehow doubled the links to get to the cut...not sure how. But the same exact content ( Read more... )

Ok, that's taking some creative license, but the idea is the same: a Virginia father has freaked the hell out because his 16-year-old son brought home the novel "Perks of Being a Wallflower" from school. Apparently the book centers around a boy who is a freshman in high school, and explores issues like homosexuality and drugs ( Read more... )

from cnn.com click here for the entire articleA fight over books depicting sex and homosexuality has riled up a small Wisconsin city, cost some library board members their positions and prompted a call for a public book burning ( Read more... )

Something I thought would be of interest to this community. (Apologies for incorrect/missing tags)

http://kotaku.com/5311939/guest-oped-the-impact-of-homophobia-in-virtual-communities

"It seems that real people in those virtual ( Read more... )