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GLSEN: No Name Calling Week Jan 23 – 27
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
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Another Teen Suicide…
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
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Washington State on the Edge Of Marriage Equality
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
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5 Tips from Minnesota’s Campaign to Defeat Minnesota Marriage Amendment
I have been closely following the Minnesota marriage amendment ever since it was on the minds of Minnesota representatives back in spring 2011 when I lobbied against it. This amendment aims to write discrimination into the state constitution by getting Minnesotans to vote yes on this amendment. The frustration being, it is already illegal for
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Farming: Not Just For White People
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
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Etta James 1938 – 2012
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
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