Fox dfw.com on Andy Moreno, born male, but who identifies as female, wants to run for homecoming queen at North Dallas High School, and not one student at the school seems to mind, save the principal and the administration who object. “I don’t have anyone that doesn’t want me to run, the only people that have a problem with it is the administration,” she said. “I was told by one of the counsellors that I should prepare myself because a lot of the administration has a problem with running.” She said she spoke to the principal in an effort to gain support with the nomination, and that the principal informed her she should run for king instead, Moreno saying “Which I don’t feel comfortable with because I identify myself as a woman and not as a male, and a king is a male.” The Dallas Independent School District has no policy regarding gender and homecoming king or queen, the decision ultimately the principal of the school, and North Dallas High would not comment. The District did release a statement that read in part “The district fully supports the decision of the principal at North Dallas High School. It should be noted that the Dallas Independent School District is proud to have one of the most aggressive anti-harassment policies among school districts in the state of Texas.”
The Associated Australian Press reports that a court in the Victorian state has upheld a discrimination complaint filed by a gay youth suicide prevention group against a Christian Brethren-run business that refused to accept a camp booking because the church contended that the group promotes homosexual activity which contradicts the church’s Biblical beliefs. WayOut, a suicide support organization founded in 2002 that works with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered youth in the area, attempted to book the Christian Youth Camps’ Philip Island Adventure Resort in June, 2007, planning to lead a weekend of workshops combating homophobia. Judge Felicity Hampel ruled Friday that while businesses and its employees are entitled to their personal and religious beliefs, they are not entitled to impose those same beliefs on others in a way that denied their freedom from discrimination. Christian Youth Camps were ordered to pay $5,000 in compensation. WayOut program coordinator Sue Hackney said that the ruling delivered by Judge Hampel would “go a long way” to showing young people that homophobia was not acceptable to the community at large, adding “It was always a bitter irony that the first step in our attempt to show young people that they can fight homophobia in their home towns was met with homophobia itself.”
David Barton, an evangelical Christian, founder of the group WallBuilders, and a professor at Glenn Beck’s “university” and WallBuilders radio co-host Rick Green proposed Tuesday on-air that the federal government regulate gay sex following the same guidelines it applies to alcohol, cigarettes, and certain harmful foods, that according to Right Wing Watch, who provide a complete transcript as well as the audio if you have a strong stomach. The two warned that a failure to do so would lead to the certain destruction of the United States within three generations.
The hairy hotness that is Armie Hammer seen attend an Elle and Express 25 event in West Hollywood Thursday.
The deeply delicious Matt Lanter spotted in New York City Thursday night.
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