Tag: Gay/Lesbian: Page 12

Students

Black Men on Campus: What the Media Do Not Show Us

Black male college students feel pressured to fulfill media-spun social expectations to be overly sexual, aggressive and athletic in college.

February 4, 2009

LGBTQ+

Hispanic, Gay Advocates Vie for Abandoned Commerce Post

No sooner had Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., and President-elect Barack Obama made their announcements that the New Mexico governor would be stepping aside because of a pay-to-play controversy swirling around him, than advocacy groups sprang to action to get their respective candidates considered.

January 5, 2009

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Poll: Black Voters Not to Blame for California’s Same Sex Marriage Ban

African Americans received much of the blame shortly after California voters banned same-sex marriage last month.

December 18, 2008

LGBTQ+

Photo Exhibit Put Back Up at BYU

Portraits of gay Brigham Young University students taken by photography major for a class project are back up at the school’s fine arts building after school officials removed the display.

December 15, 2008

LGBTQ+

‘Day Without a Gay” Participation Spotty

A daylong strike for which people were encouraged to call in “gay” to work to express support for same-sex marriage is drawing spotty participation.

December 10, 2008

Asian American Pacific Islander

Obama Names Prominent Member of Gay Community, Asian American to Environmental and Energy Posts

President-elect Barack Obama has selected a deputy mayor of Los Angeles to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality, transition officials said Wednesday. On the same day, he also put in motion plans to announce his top pick for Energy Secretary.

December 10, 2008

LGBTQ+

Univ. of Toledo official fired over column sues

The firing of a college administrator over her criticism of gay rights has sparked a debate about free speech and whether universities have the right to regulate what employees say outside of their jobs.

December 2, 2008

LGBTQ+

U.S. accepts Black President, struggles with other social advances

Americans made history this week by electing their first Black president while banning affirmative action and gay marriage at the same time.

November 6, 2008

Students

Gay-rights Group Members Arrested at College

Three members of a gay-rights group on a nationwide bus tour of faith-based universities were arrested this week after going to a private campus that had banned them, officials said.

October 30, 2008

LGBTQ+

A North Carolina Collection

Fayetteville State chancellor outlines a vision for diversity, and the University of North Carolina Press presents volumes on Black gays in the South and the post-Emancipation era.

October 1, 2008

LGBTQ+

Social Justice Group Opens Dialogue on GLBT Issues With Equality Ride

There are more than 200 U.S. colleges and universities that have explicit policies discriminatory toward GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) students, according to Soulforce Q. Since 2006, this young adult division of Soulforce, a social justice organization seeking to end political and religious oppression of GLBT people through nonviolent resistance, has staged Equality Ride.

September 16, 2008

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CORRECTION

The story, “Journalism Educators Association Aims to Step Up Diversity Efforts,” published online Aug. 11, 2008 contained factual errors that have since been corrected. The story should have said that Tony Atwater was the first African-American to lead AEJMC from 1992 to 1993. The Commission on the Status of Women, the Commission on the Status of Minorities and the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Interest Group were established several years earlier than reported.

August 20, 2008