Month: March 2018

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Texas teacher put on leave after asking for LGBTQ-inclusive language in district’s discrimination policy.

March 13, 2018 compassq Comments Off on Texas teacher put on leave after asking for LGBTQ-inclusive language in district’s discrimination policy.

In September 2017, Dallas elementary school teacher Stacy Bailey was put on paid administrative leave for an unspecified reasons, just days after she inquired about adding LGBTQ-friendly language to her school district’s policies. According to the Dallas Morning News, Bailey is an incredibly popular teacher at Charlotte Anderson Elementary School who won teacher of the year in 2016.

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How a small party in the desert became the biggest lesbian festival in America.

March 13, 2018 compassq Comments Off on How a small party in the desert became the biggest lesbian festival in America.

The Dinah might be the coolest thing to ever come out of a golf tournament. What is now the largest annual gathering of queer women and their female allies, started as one of a number of small after-parties thrown over the weekend of a ladies professional golf tournament in Palm Springs.

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Is this commercial gay hysterical or gay offensive?

March 12, 2018 compassq Comments Off on Is this commercial gay hysterical or gay offensive?

Cost comparison UK website Money Supermarket has run a series of intentionally eyecatching, talked-about adverts designed to provoke in one way or another, such as The Strutter, with very little relevance to the actual product, just an overall feeling of being epic and being ‘so Money Supermarket dot com’.

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US no longer LGBT rights world leader, says Prime Minister of Ireland.

March 12, 2018 compassq Comments Off on US no longer LGBT rights world leader, says Prime Minister of Ireland.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said the US is no longer a world leader in LGBT rights. Mr Varadkar said he believed the majority of American people would agree with him, even if the Trump administration does not. The Taoiseach made the comments during an interview at the South by South West festival in Austin, Texas.

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The Chechnya LGBT crisis – one year on.

March 12, 2018 compassq Comments Off on The Chechnya LGBT crisis – one year on.

It was a spring weekend almost twelve months ago when the LGBTI movement was rocked by news from the Chechen republic in Russia that (perceived) gay and bisexual men were being abducted, imprisoned and tortured for contact details of other (perceived) LGBT people.

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Gay Methodist minister faces discipline, possibly defrocking, because he married a man.

March 12, 2018 compassq Comments Off on Gay Methodist minister faces discipline, possibly defrocking, because he married a man.

An openly-gay Methodist minister is waiting to learn his fate from a board of church leaders who may ultimately send his case to a church trial that could strip him of his ministry for marrying his longtime partner. The United Methodist Church’s North Central Jurisdictional Committee on Appeals met Friday as part of an ongoing process to determine whether the Rev. David Meredith…