gay equality

Homeless youth: the next battle for gay equality

Submitted by ONE Community on March 9, 2012 - 1:07pm

From Wall Street Journal:

NEW YORK — Iro Uikka clutches his throat as he describes the violent clash that led to spending his nights sleeping in New York City subway cars.

"When I told my mother I was gay, she grabbed me by the neck and threw me out," he says. "Then she threw my coat on top of me and shut the door."

That was five years ago when he was 18, still living at home in Florida.

Uikka is among tens of thousands of homeless youths across America who are LGBT — lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Most are on the streets because they have nowhere else to go — outcasts who leave home after being rejected by family members or flee shelters because residents bully or beat them. Read more »

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For Catholics, Open Attitudes on Gay Issues

Submitted by ONE Community on April 23, 2011 - 3:09pm

The New York Times
By AUSTIN CONSIDINE
Published: April 22, 2011

AS the tranquil tones of church bells and choirs usher in another Easter Sunday, you may hear stirrings of controversy beneath those sounds — set to the pounding of a Lady Gaga tune.

It’s no accident that Lady Gaga decided to release the video for her provocative single, “Judas,” this Easter. From wearing see-through nun habits to suggestively swallowing a rosary, the pop star, who was raised a Catholic, has consistently prodded her faith’s strict sexual conventions. Read more »

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Equality’s Ragged March

Submitted by ONE Community on November 8, 2009 - 6:34pm
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL Published November 7, 2009 Last Tuesday’s Election Day results showed how far the nation has traveled in the struggle for gay equality — and the distance still to go. The returns also added fresh urgency to promising efforts in New York, New Jersey and the District of Columbia to legalize marriage for same-sex couples. Voters in Washington State approved a ballot measure endorsing a new law granting gay and lesbian couples the same state-provided benefits that heterosexual couples have. Read the rest of this article.
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