ON OUR GAYDAR — News, notes, clicks, and quips from around the web.
• Illinois high school English teacher Dan DeLong suspended over an optional assignment for students to read a Seed magazine article about documented homosexuality among 450 species. There’s a special board meeting on Monday to decide his fate. More than 750 supporters on Facebook.
• Huge rally tonight in London’s Trafalgar Square to raise awareness of string of anti-gay violence there. PM Gordon Brown sends his support.
• Why is Uganda so eager to crackdown on homosexuality when they don’t even know how many “offenses” there are annually?
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• The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs’s newest report shows “the number of reported DV-related fatalities increased and the number of cases with reported police misconduct in 2008 increased by 93%.” Always important to remember: Reported cases don’t accurately reflect the number of actual incidents. Additionally: “NCAVP makes several key recommendations in the 2008 report, including the need for local state and federal governments to: increase funding to LGBTQ domestic violence programs, extend support to community and non-profit based prevention initiatives, and improve the efficacy of law enforcement’s response to LGBTQ domestic violence.”
• Key West cops love their gays.
• At right, the scene from Warsaw, Poland, at last weekend’s Equality March.
• Another gay man murdered in Jamaica?
• Rumer Willis goes gay … on 90210.
• HUD moves to fast-track a study about LGBT discrimination in housing programs.
• Anderson Cooper‘s boyfriend Benjamin Maisani spots him while he does squats at the gym.
• All of Lady Gaga‘s photoshoots revolve around “occultism, secret societies and references to mind control.”
scott ny'er
Ugh!!! Another gay man murdered in Jamaica!!! That place is like the 7th level of hell for gays. Stay away.
And I can’t help it, I love hearing about Anderson Cooper’s new love and what he does. I’m so sad. Thanks for that link. Sheesh. $10mil a year. What a catch, Anderson is.
Mike L.
Gosh why did you put in the link about Lady Gaga?
I spent the las 3 hours there.
PopSnap
Then they should suspend my bio teacher in Sophmore year, too. We watched Philadelphia while doing a unit on STD’s, and she told us a touching story about her brother dying after a long struggle with AIDs after we finished watching the movie. It lasted a whole class period and some were crying by the time she finished.
It taught me that not all “grown-ups” are bigots, and I sure as hell plan on acknowledging her courage and compassion after I graduate in the form of a letter.