Spotlight on: Jim Obergefell “What we’re asking for is simply to be part of the same tradition of marriage where two people commit to each other and make those promises to love, protect, and honor each other….How are we harming…
Author: Jacqueline Faerman
Recently, the Human Rights Council of the United Nations updated their previous resolution 27/32 on “Discrimination and violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity”. A report submitted in 2011 had some similar language; the United Nations…
Michigan Governor Signs Law Allowing Adoption Agencies To Reject LGBT Parents. Under the new law signed June 11th, parents could be turned away from being allowed to adopt due to religious grounds. A package of three bills was signed into…
A Look at Florida School’s: What is “Bullying”? In 2008 the “Jeffrey Johnston Stand Up For All Students Act” was signed into law. This bill was named after bullying victim Jeffrey Johnston, who took his own life in 2005 following…
In honor of LGBT Pride Month, we’ve compiled a list and description of just a few of the many LGBT characters found in film. Characters have been accepted in film for their sexuality and gender identity for almost the past…
On May 29th, 2015, President Obama issued a proclamation declaring June 2015 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. This proclamation followed an earlier Executive Order on LGBT workplace discrimination, which put protection for Federal contractors into effect and…
Founded in 1996, the Day of Silence is the largest single student-led protest towards creating safer schools, regardless of gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation. The first Day of Silence was at the University of Viriginia in 1996, and…
The Healthy Workplace Bill- part of the Healthy Workplace Campaign. Workplace Bullying is repeated, health-harming mistreatment of one or more people (targets) by one or more perpetrators that take on the form of either verbal abuse, offensive conduct/behaviors, and/or work…
WalletHub Bullying List: Florida Ranked 10th A Few Statistics: 1) A student is bullied approximately every seven minutes 2) Every day more than 160,000 children skip school due to fear of bullies (National Education Association estimate) 3) Only about 15%…