Tag: "Harassment"
Settlement reached in harassment suit of NY gay student
[caption id="attachment_7490" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Jacob"][/caption] A federal judge on Monday approved a settlement that includes a series of reforms for an upstate New York school district in a gay student’s harassment lawsuit. The New York [...]
Eric Massa rebuffs the gay question; calls ‘groping’ male staffers a ‘tickle fight’
Former U.S. congressman, Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) Tuesday night refused to answer a blunt question by CNN's Larry King: "are you gay?" Massa is accused of groping male staffers and the House ethics committee is [...]
City moves forward with prosecution of bar patrons injured in ‘Rainbow Lounge’ raid
[caption id="attachment_6612" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="June 28, 2009 raid on the Rainbow Lounge"][/caption] City prosecutors in Fort Worth have decided to press ahead with criminal charges against at least two patrons of a gay bar who [...]
Ron Livingston sues over ‘malicious’ gay attacks on Wiki
Actor Ron Livingston (Office Space) is suing an alleged hacker who keeps changing his Wikipedia biography to say he’s in a gay relationship. [caption id="attachment_3838" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Ron Livingston"][/caption] Livingston, who earlier this year married [...]
Officer suspensions over gay bar raid called ‘absolutely inadequate’
From the Dallas Voice: FORT WORTH — The disciplinary actions handed down to three Fort Worth police officers for their part in the June 28 raid on the Rainbow Lounge were “absolutely inadequate,” according to [...]
Gay couple ‘banned for life’ from Wal-Mart after false shoplifting claim
SOUTH BEND, Indiana -- Joe Paolucci, who along with his twin sons and his partner, Thomas Hitchcock, have been banned from all Wal-Mart stores -- not because they stole anything, but because they resisted being [...]
Navy petty officer faces punishment over anti-gay abuse and hazing
Senior Navy leaders handed a career-ending letter of censure Wednesday to the chief who oversaw the prolonged hazing and sexual taunting of members of a Navy dog-handling unit in Bahrain. Senior Chief Petty Officer Michael [...]
Navy reviewing case of alleged abuse of gay sailor
The U.S. Navy is reviewing its investigation of hazing and abuse of a gay sailor and others in a military canine unit in Bahrain in 2005 and 2006, the Associated Press reports. Joseph Rocha says [...]
‘Eagle’ patrons to rally Sunday night in protest of gay bar raid
ATLANTA -- Patrons and supporters of the gay leather bar the Atlanta Eagle are gathering today at 5 p.m. in the parking lot of the establishment to hold a rally to protest a controversial raid [...]
Atlanta police descend on gay bar in ‘Stonewall’-like raid
ATLANTA -- The owners of an Atlanta gay bar say their establishment was unfairly targeted by police conducting a raid Thursday evening. Several customers at Atlanta Eagle say they were harassed without prompting, forced to [...]
MN teachers acussed of harassment placed on leave
The Anoka-Hennepin School District reported that two teachers who repeatedly mocked a student they believed was gay are on leave, a district official said Tuesday. Diane Cleveland and Walter Filson were placed on leave within [...]
TX Alcohol Commission fires 3 agents over raid on gay bar
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission announced today it has fired the two agents, and their supervisor, who took part in the June raid of a Fort Worth gay bar that resulted in a clash between [...]
Ft Worth police apologizes for raid on gay bar – on eve of Stonewall
The Fort Worth police chief said Tuesday that his department is implementing new policies in the wake of a controversial bar check at the Rainbow Lounge last June. Chief Jeff Halstead said officials are still [...]
School district to pay $25K over gay slurs, harassment
Minnesota's largest school district, Anoka-Hennepin, has agreed to pay a family $25,000 after two teachers allegedly harassed a boy because of his perceived sexual orientation, according to the Star Tribune. The teachers reportedly harassed the [...]
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