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Ark. school district defends censoring gay student’s coming out story
SHERIDAN, Ark. — The superintendent of an Arkansas school district is defending a decision by school officials to censor a yearbook profile of an openly gay student and his “coming out” story, calling it the “proper direction for our community.”
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Tim Hortons blames website censorship on vendor after boycott threatened
TORONTO — Tim Hortons, the Ontario-based coffee and doughnut house with more than 3,500 locations in Canada and the U.S., said Friday it has lifted a block of a popular Canadian LGBT news website from its in-store Wi-fi under pressure from gay rights advocates who vowed to launch a boycott of the chain.
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Digital comic blocked over ‘tiny porno images’ depicting gay sex
Apple, known for its tight controls over material and apps sold through its channels, has blocked the latest edition of a digital comic called “Saga” from being sold through comic book apps on the iPad and iPhone because it contained two scenes depicting gay sex.
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Pentagon blocks LGBT websites for ‘operational security reasons’
More than 15 months since the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the military’s former ban on openly gay service members, the U.S. Department of Defense continues to block access to websites it categorizes as LGBT.
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Shut The (Bleep) Up
Candidates are actively interrupting scientific communication in this country. Blatantly standing up in the middle of the show and making factual inferences with fantastical statements. Distracting people from the reality hiding behind the curtain with a little folksy humor or superstitious nonsense. And I’m annoyed.
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Yielding to censorship: Missouri school bans books that are ‘contrary to the Bible’
The school board in Republic, Missouri, voted 4-0 recently to ban Kurt Vonnegut’s novel “Slaughterhouse-Five” and another book, Sarah Ockler’s “Twenty Boy Summer,” after a local resident complained that the books teach ideas contrary to the Bible.
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School principal bans ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ because a gay man wrote it
My senior year at Marshfield High School was getting rolling and auditions for our drama club’s production of Lillian Hellman’s “The Children’s Hour” were scheduled for the afternoon.