Search results for "glsen"
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2011 Gay Events in DC
All dates are subject to change at each organizer's discretion. For more detailed information as events approach, check Metro Weekly's ''Community Calendar,'' your complete guide...
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Safety Monitor
''D.C. is one of the few handful of jurisdictions that has no anti-bullying legislation at all,'' says Alison Gill, public policy associate of the Gay...
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White House Reminder
In a letter to educators released Oct. 26, Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights Russlynn Ali provides guidance to educators on, among other topics,...
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Helping Hands
''It has been unbelievably painful to have these kind of daily reminders,'' Eliza Byard, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Student Education Network (GLSEN),...
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Acquiescent Accomplices
In one of the blunter responses to the recent spate of student suicides, comedian Sarah Silverman said by video, ''Dear America: When you tell gay...
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Anderson Cooper criticizes negative use of ‘Gay’ in ‘The Dilemma’ movie [video]
”Ladies and gentleman, electric cars are gay. I mean, not homosexual ‘gay,’ but my parents are chaperoning the high school dance ‘gay.”’ Opening line read...
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‘Dr. Phil’ examines Clementi suicide: Tells gay teens ‘I’m so sorry’ adults tolerate bullying [video]
”I want to say to all of y’all, on behalf of all the adults who seem to be running this society: I am so sorry....
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Blowback on Bullying
Every 18 minutes, one person ''completes'' suicide. ''We use the word 'completed' rather than 'committed' because committed makes it sound like a crime and that...
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Lessons From Jennings
Speaking Tuesday to a packed room of progressive interns finishing up a summer in D.C., Kevin Jennings – now serving as the assistant deputy secretary...
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Youth to the Fore
''I just hope that President Obama steps up to the plate on LGBT issues.'' Mentioning repeal of the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy and the...
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Life Lessons
When Dominque Walker went to Capitol Hill this week, she was taking up the work started by her mother, who lobbied Congress to ''mak sure...
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Obama’s Safe Schools director regrets advising gay student on relationship with older man
”Twenty-one years later I can see how I should have handled the situation differently. I should have asked for more information and consulted legal or...
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Strange Fruit
The recent suicides by hanging of two 11-year-old boys in response to anti-gay bullying -- Carl Walker-Hoover in Massachusetts on April 6 and Jaheem Herrera...
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Prince William's Party
Gail Dickert is not the only person who is enthusiastic about the first annual gay-friendly prom, titled Shatter the Silence 2009, to be held in...
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2008: The Year in Review
George Santayana, poet and philosopher, advised that, ''Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.'' And who better to take advice from...
