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Counseling Student Must Follow Ethics Code
May 17, 2012
In December 2011, a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s decision and rejected the claim of Jennifer Keeton. She believed that her First Amendment rights were violated when Augusta State University required her to treat LGBT people in a respectful and nondiscriminatory way. ...
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The Word “Gay”
Editor’s Note: This is the Rainbow Minute’s 1000th Episode… Possibly the first published appearance of the word “gay” as related to a same-sex relationship appeared in a passage from Gertrude Stein’s “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene,” published in 1922. Here, Stein writes about a lesbian couple, Maud Hunt Squire and…
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Rainbow Minute Celebrates 1000th Episode
Now, one hundred fifty guest readers later, the Rainbow Minute celebrates a milestone this Friday with the airing of its 1000th episode. And the topic? – the origin of the word “gay.”
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Revered Gay Pioneer, Barbara Gittings
“Revered Gay Pioneer, Barbara Gittings” Barbara Gittings is known as the Mother of the Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Movement. Every bit an earth mother, she was focused, organized and hardworking. In the 1960′s, Gittings participated in the first gay picket lines in Washington and Philadelphia. She helped organize a…
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The Multi-faceted Lesley Gore
In 1963, a honey-haired high school junior from New Jersey walked into a Manhattan recording studio. With producer Quincy Jones and a gaggle of musicians, she emerged with the #1 hit song, “It’s My Party.” Her name was Lesley Gore, and a slew of teenybopper hits followed. Gore also played…
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It’s Time For “Who Said That?”
This women’s rights activist led the charge to secure women the right to vote in the United States. Born in 1820 the daughter of Quakers in Massachusetts, she devoted her life to the complete legal equality of the two sexes through her organizing, writings and speeches. Her work with Elizabeth…
