Archive for homophobia
Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
The Davis County school district has restricted access to a book called “In Our Mother’s House”, which depicts a family with lesbian parents. In January, a kindergartner at Windridge Elementary School checked out the book. But when he brought it home to his mother she contacted the school, upset that her child had been able ... read more »
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
During a May 13 sermon at the Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, N.C., Pastor Charles Worley suggested exterminating gays and lesbians by putting them inside of an electrified fence and waiting for them to die off. “I figured a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers,” Worley says in a video posted Monday ... read more »
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
Eric Unger, a student at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, was walking alone last Saturday near his college campus when he claims he was blindsided by a group of men who brutally beat him. Unger, who is preparing for his last few weeks before graduation, says he was knocked unconscious and left with serious ... read more »
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Friday, August 26th, 2011
A Virginia mother who volunteered for her son’s Boy Scouts troop for six years says she’s been asked not to participate any longer because she is a lesbian. Denise Steele of Loudoun County had stepped up to be the den leader for her son Jackson’s Boy Scouts at his elementary school when no other parent ... read more »
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