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POPSACLU to the Rescue Speaking LGBT youth facing harassment in schools, it may be time for me to re-up my ACLU membership again, upon hearing that they've taken up the cause of a gay/straight student alliance in Florida's Okeechobee County, where the school board not only wouldn't recognize them, but wouldn't let them meet on school property. The group, formed in response to what students say is a serious harassment problem has been meeting in a nearby restaurant. (Maybe the kids are alright. And in California, the ACLU is defending students in California , after their school tried to stop them from publishing a series on sexual orientation in the school newspaper. And, yes, I know that means they also defend guys like this and other religious folks. And that's fine by me.
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POPSNothin' Going on But the Rent Speaking of gay outreach, a New Jersey Unitarian church that rented a building from a Catholic church (I could have told them that wasn't gonna end well) got evicted after hosting an appearance by an activist from HeartStrong , a charity that reaches out to LGBT youth in religious schools. Heaven forbid gay youth hear anything positive about themselves, or anything that might pave the way to self-acceptance. You know, mental & emotional heath.
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POPSSchool Board Slur When a member of the school board refers to a gay/straight student alliance "a sex club" and gsy students as "fags," it safe to assume that gay students have no hope of being treated fairly. That is, unless it was "said in love," as the kind of harassment LGBT students need to herd them back with 'that necessary boundary" a'la NARTH.
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POPSThe Kids Are Alright. Aren't They? On the one hand I'm glad there's a conference like this for gay youth to talk about their experiences with bullying and harassment in school. On the other I'm frustrated that there's still a need for a conference like this. Maybe that's because of what I went through growing up as a skinny, effeminate, nonathletic, black gay boy in the south, in the 80s, during the Reagan era. (Yeah.I might still have a few scars from that.) But what's truly disturbing are the people who says that an anti-bullying conference "affirms" the "gay lifestyle," and particularly the woman who said "There's something called therapy. A person can change if they want to, and they should be encouraged to change if they can." And if they can't or won't? Do they deserved to be harassed? Well, I remember NARTH suggested that it might do them some good.
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