Courtesy GLSEN – Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network… THE HISTORY OF THE NO NAME-CALLING WEEK PROJECT No Name-Calling Week was inspired by a young adult novel entitled “The Misfits” by popular author, James Howe. The book tells the story of four best friends trying to survive the seventh grade in the face of all […]
Another teen, Phillip Parker, has committed suicide due to anti-gay bullying. This time it’s Tennessee, a state with some of the most aggressive anti-gay bills and laws in the country. They virtually don’t even want the word gay mentioned there. Sadly, Parker’s case follows a spate of LGBT-related controversy in the state of Tennessee. In
Washington State, which has had domestic partnerships since 2007 and an “everything but marriage” law since 2009 is now on the precipice of becoming the 7th U.S. state (New York, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont and Iowa) to legalize same sex marriage. With the announcement of support by a Democratic Senator who would become the
My mom sent me this video in one of the many, many, many emails she sends me each week. Mom is one of those sweet retired ladies who sees every “forward” (as I call them) as a potential source of new and great wisdom and actually reads them all. She does. Then she lovingly
Superstar Etta James has passed away at the age of 73. James was hospitalized in January 2010 to treat an infection caused by MRSA. She was diagnosed with leukemia in early 2011. The illness became terminal and she died on January 20, 2012, just five days before her 74th birthday, at Riverside Community Hospital in
Big News! Gay Central Valley has worked for months to bring the NOH8 Campaign and things have finally worked out so GCV and NOH8 can come together. Gay Central Valley will host the NOH8 Campaign in Fresno on Friday, July
I Need Your Help! If you are between the ages of 18-27 and would like to help a college student achieve her Master’s and would like to have your story heard then please participate! My name is Danielle Gonzalez and I am a Master’s student at Fresno State in the social work department. I am
Jennifer Crow has taken over as Librarian at the Arne Nixon Center in the Henry Madden Library at Fresno State, after Angelica Carpenter retired. I visited her to speak about the Student Empowerment Project. The Project, in its infant stages, hopes to get LGBT books, along with speakers and video presentations into all local high
The Daily Show talks about the deplorable conditions in China, where much of our technology is produced…Watch the video here… http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-16-2012/fear-factory
The weather around here has been pretty nice this week. I’ve made multiple comments on the Facebook pages of my friends in Reno saying how much I do NOT miss the snow. Except for looking out the window at while I curl up with my wife someplace warm with a Hot Apple Pie cocktail in
