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News (USA)
Jamey Rodemeyer laid to rest
Jamey Rodemeyer was laid to rest on Saturday. .More than 500 mourners, many of who were strangers, turned out in Williamsville, N.Y. to say goodbye to Jamey, a 14-year-old gay teen who committed suicide earlier this week after enduring years of bullying at school and online.
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Commentary
Time for LGBT people to get their heads in the game, be their own heroes
This piece is not a sell for Barack Obama, but a plea for the gay community to recognize who our true enemies are. It’s time we stop expecting a hero and be our own heroes. It’s time we start talking into account the cold fact that our struggle for equality is like a game of chess.
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Life
Quoting FDR, former Chaplain calls DADT repeal ‘a date that will live in infamy’
In a guest editorial in Thursday’s Stars and Stripes, former Army Reserve Chaplain, Colonel Alexander F. C. Webster, calls the Sept. 20 official repeal of “Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell” as “a date that will live in infamy.”
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In memory of September’s children — Asher Brown, one year later
On September 23, 2010, Asher Brown returned home from school while his parents were at work. He shot himself in the head after enduring what his mother and stepfather say was constant harassment from four other students at Hamilton Middle School in Houston.
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News (USA)
Amherst police open criminal investigation of Jamey Rodemeyer bullying, suicide
Police in the town of Amherst in suburban Buffalo, N.Y. have opened a criminal investigation in the suicide death of 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer, who was bullied with anti-gay slurs for the past two years, both at school and online.
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News (USA)
Fort Worth student serves suspension for saying ‘homosexuality is wrong’
FT. WORTH, Texas A 14-year-old high school student in Fort Worth was suspended after remarking to a classmate in his German language class that he believes homosexuality is wrong.
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Commentary
Good riddance to Maggie Gallagher
As you have likely heard, Maggie Gallagher has stepped down as chairwoman of the National Organization for Marriage. Let’s face facts — Gallagher was probably more likely a figurehead, a puppet picked by shadowy individuals out to stomp out the progress of marriage equality. And if that was the case, she wasn’t a good one.
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News (USA)
Audience jeers gay soldier, applauds anti-gay Santorum during GOP debate
Audience members at Thursday nights GOP presidential debate booed a gay soldier who asked if the Republican candidates would reinstate the now repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that banned openly gay service members.
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Commentary
Gay Mormon, excommunicated from his church, commits suicide
Bryan Michael Egnew, 40, spent the last decades of his life building up the courage to come out to his family and Mormon church. Once he did his life, family and religion were stripped away from him, and he committed suicide within a matter of weeks.
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Commentary
Hate group Family Research Council promises to ‘monitor’ DADT repeal
Several folks on the right aren’t happy with this week’s repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The SPLC-designated hate group, the Family Research Council, has weighed in with a nonsensical scathing attack on President Obama and an ugly promise to “monitor” the effects of DADT.
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News (USA)
Remembering Tyler Clementi, one year since gay teen jumped to his death
On this day one year ago, Tyler Clementi — an 18-year-old student at Rutgers University — jumped to his death from the George Washington bridge after a sexual encounter he had with another man was allegedly streamed online by his roommate.
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News (USA)
NOM announces leadership change, Gallagher out as board chairman
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) on Thursday announced that that John Eastman, a Constitutional law scholar, will be replacing Maggie Gallagher as its Chairman of the Board.
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Commentary
The inevitability of the rise of gay affirming Christianity
It is inevitable that Christians who would now be described as “liberal” will be the overwhelming majority of Christians in America. That sea change, the waters of which we already feel swelling everywhere around us, can no sooner be stopped than can the moon passing across the night sky.
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News (USA)
Kerry, Nadler introduce bills targeting LGBT discrimination in housing, credit
Legislation was introduced on Thursday in both chambers of Congress that would amend existing federal law to protect LGBT people in the housing and credit markets. The legislation, which was introduced by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) in the House and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) in the Senate, is known as the Housing Opportunities Made Equal […]
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Life
‘Save California’ leader suggests Larry King provoked his own murder
Randy Thomasson of Save California said that openly gay student Larry King, who was murdered by his classmate Brandon McInerney in 2008, provoked his murderer into killing him.
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News (USA)
Archbishop warns Obama of ‘conflict of enormous proportions’ over DOMA repeal
In a sharply critical letter to the President, Catholic Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan said that “recent actions” taken by the Administration “escalate the threat to marriage,” and urged Obama to discriminate against gay and lesbian Americans by supporting the “Defense Of Marriage Act.”
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Alarming trend in suicide among LGBT youth nearing pandemic, says CDC
There was a time when faculty members in schools across America bracing for the annual after summer break of their students worried about seemingly inconsequential issues. Now it seems, according to a high school teacher in the western New York township of Williamsville, preventing adolescent death by suicide due to extreme bullying seems to be the prevalent challenge.
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Commentary
Christians and the Blood of Jamey Rodemeyer
If you’re a Christian who believes that being gay is a morally reprehensible offense against God, then you share a mindset, worldview, and moral structure with the kids who hounded Jamey Rodemeyer — literally, to death.
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News (USA)
Gay teenager struggled with bullying before taking his life
“I always say how bullied I am, but no one listens,” Jamey Rodemeyer wrote Sept. 9. “What do I have to do so people will listen to me?” Just over one week later, Jamey, 14, was found dead outside his home of an apparent suicide.
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Life
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ ends: A young U.S. Airman comes out to his dad
A young airman from Alabama who has been posting videos on YouTube regarding the now ended policy of “Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell,” put up a new video early Tuesday morning in which he shows his face publicly for the first time as he calls his father to tell him that he’s gay.