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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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Lesbians and queer women in politics

January 5, 2012
| Five queer women involved in political life in B.C. got together at Rhizome Cafe in Vancouver to talk about their experiences.

29:34 minutes (27.07 MB)
Anthology

Celebrating butch and femme

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme

by Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman, eds.
(Arsenal Pulp Press,
2011;
$21.95)

Equal parts manifesto, thesis, coming-of-age tale and love letter, Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, edited by Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman, breaks the reductive, sanitized gender stereotypes of what it is to be a lesbian -- especially ones who don't look like Ellen DeGeneres, Rachel Maddow or a cast member of The L Word.

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Wave of Pink against homophobia

June 13, 2011
| On June 14, the Burnaby Board of Education votes on a policy against homophobia and heterosexism. A local Christian church has been very vocal in their opposition to the policy.

16:50 minutes (15.42 MB)
Redeye

Get That Freak

December 18, 2010
| Despite the fact that same-sex marriage is legal in Canada, kids in high school who identify or are identified as queer experience constant harassment and bullying.

14:53 minutes (13.64 MB)
Columnists

Sasha: The nature of (young) things

Dear Sasha,

I am a middle-aged, divorced environment writer with an affectionate eye on a much younger woman.

My friends consider me polite, outspokenly critical and a fit, reasonably good-looking man. My potential love interest, who is unattached, appreciates and even sought my mature attention to her singular life and talents as yoga teacher and videographer.

We met in a coffee shop, and superficially we have much in common. Acting, instinctively, I crave caring and sharing, and even intimacy, were her mood ever to become affirmative. I cannot yet intuit whether or not to pursue closeness with this tantalizing creature across a complex age gap.

Pride Toronto's political Trans March 2010

Pride Toronto's second annual Trans March, Friday, July 2, 2010. The POLITICS of PRIDE...

*Ontario MPP Cheri DiNovo reintroduced Toby's Act, a private members bill, for the third time on July 2, 2010 -- the Pride Coalition for Free Speech.

* and Queers Against Israeli Apartheid celebrate Pride Toronto's reversal of its earlier decision to ban the terms "Israeli Apartheid" at PRIDE events.

Columnists

Sasha: How to stand bi your friends

Dear Sasha,

What do most of the women you know think about bisexual/gay males? Are they turned on by the thought of watching a man fellating another man, or revolted? Would they like to part of a three-way where the men have contact with one another? You know how most males would love to see two women having sex with each other? I'm wondering if women feel the same about seeing two males together sexually.

Alex

Seahorse social: Cabaret & open mic

Feb 25 2010 - 6:00pm
Feb 25 2010 - 11:59pm

Location

Gladaman's Den
502 Yonge st. just north of Alexander street, close to College Station
Toronto, ON ON M4Y
Canada
Phone: 416-978-8201
Fax: 416-978-1078
43° 39' 47.4876" N, 79° 23' 1.9464" W

The Centre for Women and Trans People and LGBTOUT present . . .

"SEAHORSE SOCIAL": a unique collaborative pub night creating space for queer women, trans folk and allies. This event is trans inclusive.

Seahorse Social: Our habitats may be going extinct but tonight, this space is ours!
Seahorses are primarily threatened by fishing practices, particularly by non-selective trawling methods that rake the sea-bottom indiscriminately.

Let's swim together! Because there are less "boundaries" in water than in boxes?
We like to keep it fluid.
Metaphors . . . connections . . . reclaiming . . .

Contact name: 
The Centre for Women and Trans People UofT
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