On the same day that NJ governor Chris Christie
announced that he has nominated an openly gay African-American Republican mayor to the state’s highest court, Washington state's legislature has
announced that they have the votes to pass the same sex-marriage bill that the governor has already promised to sign. Washington will be the seventh state to have same sex marriages.
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posted by roomthreeseventeen
on Jan 23, 2012 -
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GLBT rights advocate Carolyn Wagner has passed away. In 1996,
Carolyn's 16 year old son, William, was assaulted in his school in Fayetteville, Arkansas, following years of
anti-gay harassment. School administrators rebuffed his complaints, telling him to man-up. His mother, Carolyn, filed a
complaint with the Office For Civil Rights that the Fayetteville Arkansas School District was in violation of their son's Title lX rights and succeeded in convincing the OCR that GLBT students are covered by Title lX, and won.
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posted by roomthreeseventeen
on Jan 19, 2011 -
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