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Annual ‘Day of Silence’ calls attention to ‘silencing effect’ of anti-LGBT bullying
Hundreds of thousands of students at thousands of schools around the world on Friday will participate in GLSEN’s (the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) 19th annual “Day of Silence” by taking a vow of silence to draw attention to the anti-LGBT harassment and discrimination in schools.
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Annual ‘Day of Silence’ calls attention to ‘silencing effect’ of anti-LGBT bullying
Hundreds of thousands of students at thousands of schools around the world on Friday are participating in GLSEN’s (the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) 18th annual Day of Silence by taking a vow of silence to draw attention to the anti-LGBT harassment and discrimination in schools.
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Court: Gay student may wear ‘Jesus is not a homophobe’ t-shirt to school
CINCINNATI, Ohio — An openly gay Ohio teen who sued his high school after being threatened with suspension for wearing a t-shirt containing the message “Jesus is not a Homophobe,” will be allowed to wear the shirt to school whenever he chooses.
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PFAW report examines the anti-gay lobby’s ‘pro-bullying agenda’
As students around the country participated Friday’s “Day of Silence” to show solidarity with bullied LGBT children and teens, anti-gay activists continued to step up their efforts to prevent schools from protecting bullied students.
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Silence Is Not Golden
Taking down the bullies has to start with taking down those who empower the bullying. That’s not the onlookers, who are victims of their conditioning too, nor only the schools. Indeed, bullying is empowered by every institution that seeks to limit an individual’s ability to say, “No, I won’t be limited, I want the freedom to be me. I do not want to be what you want, but whoever it is that I can be, with all the good I might achieve. Now, teach me, provide me with the means to let me become all that I can be, or get out of my way.”
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Annual ‘Day of Silence’ calls attention to ‘silencing effect’ of anti-LGBT bullying
Hundreds of thousands of students across the United States, and in nearly 60 countries around the world, on Friday participated in the 17th annual “Day of Silence” — an event designed to illustrate the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment.
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FRC itching to be humiliated again as ‘Day of Silence’ approaches
Because the “Day of Silence” — and the organization behind it, GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) — deals with the plight of LGBT students, they both have been in the cross hairs of religious right groups who claim that Day of Silence is simply another way to supposedly “indoctrinate” students into homosexuality…
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‘Day of Dialogue’ from Focus on the Family is ‘sacred discrimination’
I have a hair-trigger sensitivity for the protection of LGBT youth. Even if an action is wrapped in heart-themed paper and tied with a Jesus-loves-you ribbon, when there is something rotten inside, I can smell it. There is something very rotten at the core of the Day of Dialogue event sponsored by the conservative Christian ministry Focus on the Family.
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Judge: Gay student can wear ‘Jesus is not a Homophobe’ shirt for 1 day
WAYNESVILLE, Ohio — An openly gay Ohio teen, who is suing his school after being threatened with suspension for wearing a t-shirt containing the message “Jesus is not a Homophobe,” will be allowed to wear the shirt after all — but for 1 day only, a federal judge ruled this week.
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Harvey: Top 10 reasons Christian kids should skip school on ‘Day of Silence’
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Linda Harvey, the suburban Columbus housewife who has led a campaign aimed at stamping out what she terms “sin-affirming pro-homosexuality activism” is once again this year taking aim at the GLSEN sponsored “Day of Silence.”