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Lesbian teen accepts settlement after being denied prom date

July 20, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ACLU RELEASE

ABERDEEN, MS - Itawamba County School District officials agreed to have a judgment entered against them in the case of a recent high school graduate who sued her school for canceling the prom rather than let her attend with her girlfriend. The agreement ends a precedent-setting lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of 18-year-old Constance McMillen, who suffered humiliation and harassment after parents, students and school officials executed a cruel plan to put on a "decoy" prom for her while the rest of her classmates were at a private prom 30 miles away.

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The radical roots of Pride

Marxism 2010: As Pride Toronto bans the term "Israeli Apartheid" from this year's march, Christine Beckermann looks back on the radical roots of the gay liberation movement, and how the rights we have today didn't come without a fight -- or without radical politics.

This summer will mark the 30th anniversary of the Pride Day celebrations in Toronto. For young people who may be heading out to their first Pride, it would be easy to think that the history of the struggle for LGBT rights has been an onward and upward advance of rational ideas over bigotry and hatred; that through reasoned argument, society and the state have come to accept the case for equal rights.

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Extreme boycott: Don't get caught in a bad hotel

A flashmob infiltrates the Westin St. Francis hotel in San Francisco.
A flashmob infiltrates the Westin St. Francis hotel in San Francisco and performs an adaptation of Lady Gaga's song 'Bad Romance.' Why? Because of a boycott....

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Rob Ford: It's safe to come back to Toronto now

| July 5, 2011

Two Spirit and Queer Liberation Movements: From Radical Revolt to Freedom Fighting Justice

Two Spirit and Queer Liberation Movements image
Nov 25 2009 - 7:00pm
Nov 25 2009 - 9:00pm

Location

Montgomery Legion Hall
330 Kent Street
Ottawa, ON K2P 2A6‎
Canada
Phone: 613 520-2757
Fax: 613 520 3989
45° 24' 49.7448" N, 75° 41' 52.7532" W

With presentations by:
Jessica Yee, Executive Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network
Gary Kinsman, co-author of The Canadian War on Queers
Ashley Fortier, Q-Team
Zaheen, Agitate! Ottawa

Suggested donation $5-10, no one turned away

Advance tickets available at OPIRG Carleton (326 UniCentre), OPIRG-GRIPO (631 King Edward Ave, 3rd floor) Venus Envy Ottawa (320 Lisgar St), and Octopus Books (116 Third Ave)

Talk descriptions:

Contact name: 
Rachel Gurofsky
Contact email: 
Redeye

Ivan E. Coyote live at Rhizome Cafe

March 16, 2009
| One of Canada's best-known storytellers performs for a sold-out crowd in Vancouver.

42:31 minutes (38.93 MB)
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Three big, gay issues you won’t hear about during this election

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