Camille is a twentysomething working in the LGBT nonprofit industry. She runs an LGBT news blog at gaywrites.org.
“Have you wished you could find a simple flyer for your older grade school or middle school children about homosexuality?” That’s how the conservative Christian group Mission: America introduces its handy brochure called “Questions and Answers for Kids about Homosexuality.” While there are a few pieces of useful advice (“Always speak up and help someone who is being bullied”), it’s not quite as “anti-bullying” as the group wants you to think. Mission: America’s brochure explains (in simplistic terms meant for… Read more
So the saying goes: one step forward, two steps back. Or so it seems with LGBT people in the media: Rupert Everett, the 53-year-old British actor who starred in the 1998 film “Shakespeare in Love,” took a few giant steps backward for the gay rights movement this week when he told the UK’s Sunday Times Magazine that there’s apparently nothing worse than having gay parents. Everett came out as gay 20 years ago and says his mother still wishes he… Read more
For several months, former Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron has been under fire from LGBT activists for an interview with Piers Morgan in which Cameron said homosexuality was “unnatural,” “detrimental,” and “destructive.” Cameron is a born-again Christian who speaks frequently about how his faith affects his life. As recently as July, Cameron made headlines again for refusing to meet with LGBT youth while he was headlining a religious anti-marriage-equality event in New Jersey. In an interview with Naples News this week,… Read more
Zachary Tennen, a sophomore at Michigan State University, is recovering after he was physically beaten and his mouth was stapled shut in what his family says was a hate crime. According to CBS Detroit: He was at a house party on the 500 block of Spartan Avenue early Sunday morning when two men approached him and asked if he was Jewish. When he responded “Yes,” the two men raised their arms into a Nazi salute and said “Heil Hitler” before knocking him unconscious, according to Tennen’s… Read more
