An update on a previous post, a settlement reached in a lawsuit between a gay teenager – identified as Jacob – and the Mohawk School District in upstate New York. Under the settlement the district agreed to initiate changes in policy to protect students from harassment and to pay $50,000 to Jacob’s family. The district, under the deal, does not admit to any wrongdoing. Jacob, aided by the American Civil Liberties Union sued in federal court, alleging that no school official attempted anything to help stop the chronic bullying he endured. If the case had continued, the United States Justice Department intended to intervene. Jacob and the district released a joint statement saying they hoped the settlement serves “as a model for other school districts confronting issues of bullying and intolerance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender non-conforming students.” Jacob has since transferred to another school.
A profile of Derrick Martin, the 18 year old Cochran, Georgia native who asked and received permission to escort his boyfriend to the Bleckley High School prom, who seems to suddenly be alone, abandoned by family and friends, a kind of pariah, a consequence of his accidental activism, that the result of a request that is made by hundreds of other senior high school students yearly. “I thought I would have a little bit of backup,” he said, disappointment creeping in his voice. “But it’s just me.”
Chris Armstrong has been elected president of the University of Michigan Student Assembly, Armstrong openly gay, and the past chair of the assembly’s LGBT Commission. Armstrong, a junior, said “I am overwhelming astonished. I am so humbled by the fact that they student body voted for us. It’s really hard for me to put into words how incredibly elated I feel.”
Good news for current or prospective NFL quarterbacks (i.e. Tim Tebow), a new poll revealing that 62-percent of those surveyed said that they would support an openly gay quarterback in the Super Bowl, 61-percent said they would support an openly gay commissioner of baseball, and 50-percent said they would support an openly gay American president. The poll – conducted by CBS’s Sixty Minutes and Vanity Fair magazine, was conducted in connection with the movement to repeal the American military policy banning gay men and women from serving openly.
Nicholas Hoult stars in an editorial for the spring and summer Italian GQ, the feature photographed by Matthew Brookes, titled Fascino Ambiguo or Ambiguous Fascination.
The male model of the moment Taylor Fuchs, who hails from Regina, Saskatchewan, and was discovered in his first year at the University of Calgary, Fuchs, with heavy eyelids and full, perfectly pursed lips, something of matinee idol.
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