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NJ teacher’s Facebook rant: homosexuality ‘perverted,’ a ‘sin that breeds like cancer’
School officials in Union Township, N.J. are investigating claims that a high school teacher who advises a student prayer group posted remarks on her Facebook page critical of LGBT History Month, and described homosexuality as “perverted” and a “sin” that “breeds like cancer.”
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Gay HS coach said he was fired over photos on his Facebook, MySpace pages
A high school water polo coach in Covina, Calif. — who was fired at the beginning of the school year in August — is protesting his termination, and claims he was fired because he is gay.
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But Who’ll School the Fool Buell?
Every time you share a story like yesterday’s on Buell; every time you write and post such a story yourself; every time you leave a comment on such a post, so that observers can see how alive is the topic; every time you contribute to a pertinent online forum, you—you!—help to bring about real, actual change.
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Bully for You, Jerry Buell
If you don’t know, Jerry Buell is the central Florida high school teacher who, on July 25, got so outraged while watching a TV report about the legalization of gay marriage in New York that on his personal Facebook page he wrote, “I’m watching the news, eating dinner, when the story about New York okaying same sex unions came on and I almost threw up.”
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Facebook Put My Life Together Again
Today I accepted the Facebook friend request of someone I knew in high school. We haven’t spoken in more than thirty years … and God knows why she wants to befriend the scandalous queer who wore knee-high platform boots to the junior dance in our home town of Bossier City, Louisiana.
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Safe sex ads to return in Australia after backlash by LGBT community
One of Australia’s biggest outdoor advertising companies reversed its decision to ban billboards promoting safe homosexual sex, just one day after ordering their removal from Brisbane-area bus shelters.
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‘Graphic’ photo of two men kissing removed in error, says Facebook
The removal by Facebook of a photo of two men kissing because it reportedly violated the social network’s standards against “graphic or sexually suggestive content,” has now been called an “error.”
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Illinois sheriff under fire for anti-Semitic, homophobic Facebook comment
A west-central Illinois county sheriff has come under fire after making a derogatory post on Facebook, in which he referred to a co-worker as a “little fag jew boy.”
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Facebook updates relationships to include ‘civil union,’ ‘domestic partnership’
Facebook is becoming more LGBT-friendly. This week, the world’s largest online social networking website added two new options to its list of relationship statuses: “in a civil union” and “in a domestic partnership.”
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Report: Facebook bullying leads high school freshman to commit suicide
Sadly, another teen suicide to report. Kameron Jacobsen, a 14-year-old freshman at Monroe-Woodbury High School in Central Valley, N.Y., died Tuesday after taking his own life. Sources report that Kameron was was tormented by Facebook bullies who taunted him because they thought he was gay.