There was a great article in the UNC-Chapel Hill Daily Tar Heel yesterday, covering the organizing efforts of LGBT students on the campuses of North Carolina’s historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Winston-Salem State University, Fayetteville State University, North Carolina Central University and North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University are among many of North [...]
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell ‘unit cohesion’ argument crumblin’ & a’ tumblin’ like the walls of Jericho
A few days ago I posted about a former Air Force Reserve officer who was dismissed after her sexual orientation was anonymously outed.
In the post I talked about how the unit cohesion argument set forth to uphold the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy by the United States Military definitely didn’t hold up in her case [...]
More DADT news – Army breaks the law
I’ve done a few posts on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) the last two days, including a story that turned out to be false and factually misleading (the Sir Ian McKellen, Georgia National Guard appointment).
This new story, however, isn’t false or factually misleading.
The Army has dismissed a 30 year old, gay, Arab linguist after receiving [...]
Bobbie Spainbauer gets a beating
Bobbie Spainbauer, the student who was kept from her graduation ceremony because she refused to wear a dress, is getting a beating on a message board provided by the Fayetteville Observer.
I first blogged about the gender discrimination against Spainbauer last week after a good friend of mine told me about it.
The ACLU is now involved [...]
NC student barred from graduation due to dress code
A female student in Fayetteville has contacted the ACLU after being banned from her high school graduation ceremony for wearing pants, a button up shirt and tie instead of a dress.
According to an article and news video from WRAL in Raleigh, NC, Bobbie Spainbauer, a student at Douglass Byrd High School in Fayetteville, was kept [...]
