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to Make the World a Better Place for Gays and Lesbians by
Una W. Fahy
For the first time in the history of the gay
rights movement, homosexuality and the issues surrounding it are
being dealt with on a national level. This book presents practical
tips and procedures on how to effectively battle the homophobia
that is still all too prevalent in today's society.
 Violence
and Social Injustice Against Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People by
Lacey M. Sloan (Editor), Nora S. Gustavsson (Editor)
Violence and Social Injustice Against
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People helps you look past the
stereotypical picture of violence against sexual minorities--the
public physical assaults on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and
transgendered youth by hypermasculine male thugs--and directs you
towards the many daily acts of quiet violence that go on,
unhindered, in the workaday settings of our legal, social,
education, and law-enforcement institutions. You'll learn about
the frightening prevalence of complacency, homophobic ignorance,
and apathy that pervades our police departments, courts, high
schools, and churches. Also, armed with this critical insight and
statistical research, you'll be better equipped to wage a
nonviolent war of fairness and mutual respect against the daily,
senseless violence of policy and practice that threatens to render
gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people unwelcome and
battered citizens in their own communities.
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America's most famous un-Boy Scout discusses
discrimination, the Supreme Court and the fight scouting taught
him to fight.
By Kera Bolonik for Solon.com
Excerpt:
The Boy Scouts taught Dale how to become a
leader. Ironically, everything he learned from scouting prepared
him for the fight of his life: To defend himself against the
group's discriminatory policy. What began as a personal battle of
a young man trying to regain his membership with the institution
that defined his childhood experience has evolved over a decade
into a national issue about the future of gay youth in America --
and Dale has become their most vigorous advocate...
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CNN Interview
Excerpt:
The 5-4 Supreme Court decision that allows the
Boy Scouts of America to exclude gay troop leaders sends "a
horrible message about intolerance and prejudice," former Boy
Scout James Dale tells CNN legal analyst Greta Van Susteren in an
online interview.
Dale was fired from his assistant Scout master
position when the organization found out he was gay...
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Excerpt:
Chief Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of
the Court.
Petitioners are the Boy Scouts of America and
the Monmouth Council, a division of the Boy Scouts of America
(collectively, Boy Scouts). The Boy Scouts is a private,
not-for-profit organization engaged in instilling its system of
values in young people. The Boy Scouts asserts that homosexual
conduct is inconsistent with the values it seeks to instill.
Respondent is James Dale, a former Eagle Scout whose adult
membership in the Boy Scouts was revoked when the Boy Scouts
learned that he is an avowed homosexual and gay rights activist.
The New Jersey Supreme Court held that New Jersey’s public
accommodations law requires that the Boy Scouts admit Dale. This
case presents the question whether applying New Jersey’s public
accommodations law in this way violates the Boy Scouts’ First
Amendment right of expressive association. We hold that it
does...
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Excerpt:
In a narrowly drawn
five-to-four decision, the Supreme Court reversed the New Jersey
Supreme Court. Writing for the Supreme Court majority, Chief
Justice Rehnquist said forcing the Scouts to retain Mr. Dale
“would significantly burden the organization’s right to oppose
or disfavor homosexual conduct.” Rehnquist wrote:
In Roberts v.
United States Jaycees (1984), we observed that
“implicit in the right to engage in activities protected by the
First Amendment” is “a corresponding right to associate with
others in pursuit of a wide variety of political, social,
economic, educational, religious, and cultural ends.” This
right is crucial in preventing the majority from imposing its
views on groups that would rather express other, perhaps
unpopular, ideas.... Government actions that may
unconstitutionally burden this freedom may take many forms, one of
which is “intrusion into the internal structure or affairs of an
association” like a “regulation that forces the group to
accept members it does not desire.” Forcing a group to
accept certain members may impair the ability of the group to
express those views, and only those views, that it intends to
express. Thus, “[f]reedom of association ... plainly
presupposes a freedom not to associate.”
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Scouting For All is a nonprofit organization
made up of scouts, adult leaders and concerned individuals outside
of scouting dedicated to ending the discrimination of the Boy
Scouts of America towards gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered
youth and adults. Scouting For All is also advocating that the Boy
Scouts of America end its discrimination against girls and
atheists.
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From Safe Schools
This site keeps you up-to-date on what is
happening with the Boy Scouts' stance on exclusion. Includes
letters, action alerts, handy links, and more.
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Find information and resources on the issue of
gays in the Boy Scouts of America. Annotated links, actions
groups, discussions and more.
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