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GET INFORMED: LGBT News for October 2
Each weekday, Get Busy, Get Equal brings you a sampling of national and regional LGBT news, the latest on what's new in LGBT relationships, and new developments in ACLU work. We're making progress, but since every step forward is met with resistance, we've got to fight smart to win. Get informed.
ACLU NEWS
Arkansas Parenting Ballot Initiative
Reacting to the ACLU's unanimous victory at the Arkansas Supreme Court striking down an anti-gay foster care ban in Howard v. Child Welfare Agency Review Board,
anti-gay activists have been attempting to get an initiative on the
ballot that would ban unmarried couples who live together from serving
as adoptive or foster parents in the state of Arkansas. The ACLU is
part of the coalition opposing this needless measure that would only
harm children by reducing the pool of potential homes. Learn more
about the Howard case here.
- Groups fight Ark. policy on foster parents (Associated Press)
- Hearing Set for Today on Foster-Care Policy (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
- Group to fight foster parenting policy (Arkansas News Bureau)
- Gay foster parents seek to legally adopt kids (The Miami Herald)
- Gay Man Challenges State's Gay Adoption Ban (CBS 4 Miami)
Note: The video version of this story misidentifies a photo of another couple as our plaintiff and his partner - Foster Dad Fights Fla. Ban On Gay Adoption (WPLG Miami)
- Gay Couple to Challenge Florida's Adoption Ban (Diversity Inc)
- Florida adoption law has new challenge (United Press International)
RELATIONSHIPS NEWS
California Prop. 8
- Calif. Gay-Marriage Ban Appears to Lose Support (The Washington Post)
- YouTube Videos Debate Proposition 8 (Los Angeles Times)
- "Saving Marriage" -- Seeing the Future in California? (The Huffington Post)
- California Chooses More than President (The Harvard Independent)
- A Hero in the Struggle for Marriage Equality (The Huffington Post)
Gavin Newsom writes a memorial to Del Martin
- CSU OKs Domestic Partner Benefits (Fort Collins Coloradoan)
- Fierce fight over Arizona anti-gay amendment (365Gay)
DISCRIMINATION NEWS
- San Franciscans Weigh Merits of High School ROTC (Associated Press)
- Priests Urge Rejection of Antidiscrimination Ordinance (Detroit Free Press)
YOUTH AND SCHOOLS NEWS
- Furor raised over derogatory remark: School board member regrets comment (Times of Trenton News)
This school might want to take a look at our paper “Preventing Harassment and Protecting Free Speech in School” - It’s just a song ….(Dallas Voice)
High school twirlers suspended from performing for doing a routine to “I Kissed a Girl (And I Liked It)” -- other band members are wearing buttons declaring “No Twirlers, No Band,” and the drum line says they’re not marching till the twirlers are back - Twirlers Disciplined Over Suggestive Song At Pep Rally: Girls Performed To Hit Single 'I Kissed A Girl'
Video and poll at the link above - Disciplined Twirler Says Song 'Just Like Any Other' (NBC 5 Dallas/Ft. Worth)
- Swastikas, Other Items Found in Boy's Home (Ventura County Star)