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LGBT Community Survey

Submitted by ONE Community on May 15, 2013 - 12:00am
LGBT Community Survey

We would like to invite you to take a new survey about your opinions and preferences, from an LGBT perspective. 

There's power in our Pride! Participating in this study helps open minds and doors around the world, and influences positive changes for our community. Previous surveys have yielded 45,000 respondents from 148 countries! You may have seen CMI research quoted in the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, etc. 

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NY group wins OK to organize PTA for gay students

Submitted by ONE Community on April 12, 2012 - 10:50pm

From The Wall Street Journal:

Rachael Scheinman hears anti-gay slurs all the time.

The senior at the Portledge School in Locust Valley, N.Y., says many of her peers use hateful vocabulary as generic putdowns without realizing the harm.

"These slurs are used very cruelly, and when I ask people about it they say they are not being anti-gay; they are just substituting the slur to mean 'stupid' or something like that,"" said the 18-year-old, who identifies herself as gay.

Scheinman was among those celebrating Thursday at the approval of a Parent-Teacher Association chapter designed specifically for the needs of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students. Read more »

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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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Gay Marriage and the Constitution

Submitted by ONE Community on July 26, 2009 - 2:48pm
Why Ted Olson and I are working to overturn California's Proposition 8. by David Boies July 20, 2009 - The Wall Street Journal When I got married in California in 1959 there were almost 20 states where marriage was limited to two people of different sexes and the same race. Eight years later the Supreme Court unanimously declared state bans on interracial marriage unconstitutional. Recently, Ted Olson and I brought a lawsuit asking the courts to now declare unconstitutional California's Proposition 8 limitation of marriage to people of the opposite sex. We acted together because of our mutual commitment to the importance of this cause, and to emphasize that this is not a Republican or Democratic issue, not a liberal or conservative issue, but an issue of enforcing our Constitution's guarantee of equal protection and due process to all citizens. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the right to marry the person you love is so fundamental that states cannot abridge it. In 1978 the Court (8 to 1, Zablocki v. Redhail) overturned as unconstitutional a Wisconsin law preventing child-support scofflaws from getting married. The Court emphasized, "decisions of this Court confirm that the right to marry is of fundamental importance for all individuals." In 1987 the Supreme Court unanimously struck down as unconstitutional a Missouri law preventing imprisoned felons from marrying.
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