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Islamic textbooks instruct students to teach gays a lesson

logointern1 — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:30:10 +0000

Concerned with America’s public school system?

When your six-year-old brings home a textbook that specifies “hellfire” as the only correct response to the question “What happens to someone who(...)

Gay student-teacher rehired and still gay

logointern1 — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:00:32 +0000

Seth Stambaugh, 23-year-old Oregon student-teacher, was fired in September from Sexton Mountain Elementary School following a complaint made by a 4th grader’s parent regarding the following(...)

Man accused of killing infant for acting like a girl

logointern1 — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:41:17 +0000

A Long Island man is accused of fatally punching an infant in order to get him to stop acting like a girl.

Twenty-year-old Pedro Jones was babysitting his girlfriend’s 17-month-old infant on(...)

Homeless youth disproportionately LGBT

logointern1 — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:47:03 +0000

The Center for American Progress estimates in a new study that gay and transgender youth account for 20-40 percent of homeless youth in the US, while only about 5-10 percent of the general youth(...)

1 in 2 LGBT youth regularly cyberbullied

logointern1 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:00:58 +0000

One out of every two LGBT youths are the victims of cyberbullying, a new Iowa State University study found.

In a study of 444 junior high, high school and college age students between the ages(...)

Neff: If not now, later

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:01:11 +0000

We’re not talking about my generation.

We’re talking about a new generation — we’ll wait to see if “Generation Z” sticks.

Those of this generation, born in the 1990s and 2000s, may(...)

College campuses seek balance when views collide

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:00:12 +0000

(Columbia, Mo.) They call it Speakers’ Circle, a First Amendment gathering spot at the University of Missouri where just about anything goes.

Confrontational evangelists condemn abortion and gay(...)

Study finds widening generation gap in US

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:00:51 +0000

(Washington) From cell phones and texting to religion and manners, younger and older Americans see the world differently, creating the largest generation gap since the tumultuous years of the(...)

Study: Trans students victimized

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:06:33 +0000

(New York City) A new study finds transgender youths face extremely high levels of victimization in school – even more so than their lesbian, gay and bisexual peers.

But the study, by the Gay,(...)

Supreme Court declines anti-gay student case

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:35:14 +0000

The Supreme Court said Monday that it would not take the case of a Kentucky high school student who wants to sue his school district over a policy that allegedly barred him from expressing opposition to homosexuality.