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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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Counseling Student Must Follow Ethics Code
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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Atheist Author and Journalist Christopher Hitchens
Known as a “man of the left,” a leading public intellectual, and a champion debater, Christopher Hitchens was a vocal supporter of equal rights for gays – including equal marriage rights. He was a vocal critic of the Catholic Church, even standing up for his gay friend Stephen Fry in…
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Couples Increase But Money Decreases
Data released October 2010 by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that from 2008 to 2009, the number of same-sex couples who identified as spouses or unmarried partners grew at three times the rate of the general population during that same time period. The number of same-sex couples increased by 3%…
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Firsts for Kevin Keller
Over the years, Archie Comics hasn’t changed very much, but now the company is bringing the teens at Riverdale high into the 21st century. In 2010, it introduced it first openly gay character, Kevin Keller, in No. 202 of Veronica Comics. By popular demand, Kevin had his own 4-issue mini-series….
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Chay Yew’s Big Break
Chay Yew’s college training included a stint at Pepperdine University in Malibu in his teens, and a move to Boston University, where he earned an M.F.A. in communications. He returned to Singapore in 1988 where he wrote his first play, “As If He Hears.” It was banned by government censors…
