Belmont University Faculty Pass Resolution Supporting Gay Members Of School And Call On President To Clarify Employment Expectations, Human Rights Campaign San Francisco Moves Into Harvey Milk Castro Camera, Alex Ovechkin And Sydney Crosby Face Off For Bruce Weber, Trevor Donovan Hits The Slopes

Professors at Belmont University say that students and faculty should be welcomed at the Christian college in Nashville, Tennessee, and that no one should be forced to leave the school because of their sexual orientation, the Tennessean reporting that the faculty senate unanimously approved a resolution Monday evening in support of gay members of their community and extended an invitation to the administration to discuss the issue. “The Senate believes that the sexual identity of individuals should not impact that person’s standing on campus,” the resolution reads. The action arrives after the school severed its relationship with Lisa Howe, the women’s soccer coach, who, in telling administration and players her partner was pregnant, inadvertently outed herself, although the university continues to deny that version, insisting that the school and Howe reached an mutual decision. Nathan Griffith, an associate professor of political science at Belmont, who voted for the resolution, said that Belmont’s hiring policy does not explicitly prohibit gay employees, and he wants input from the faculty if that is going to change. “We want to be part of the conversation before we settle what that policy should be,” he said. Faculty members tabled a proposal from Griffith that would have requested Belmont President Bob Fischer to define explicitly the university’s policy on gay faculty and staff. Instead, the accepted proposal asks for a dialogue on campus about the issue. Griffith said that if faculty can be fired for their sexual orientation, they should know that fact from the beginning, saying “If that is going to be a condition of being employed here, people need to know. People need to be able to form reasonable expectations.”

The Human Rights Campaign, America’s largest gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organisation, is moving its San Francisco Action Center and store to the historic home of civil rights icon Harvey Milk. The San Francisco Examiner reporting that the new location is the former home of Milk’s Castro Camera, where Milk famously worked, lived, and organised the political campaigns that eventually lead him to be elected as the first openly gay male to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Joe Solomonese said “It is Harvey Milk’s vision of hope that continues to inspire the work that we do at the Human Rights Campaign. We are beneficiaries of his groundbreaking activism and are honoured to be a part of the future that he envisioned.”

A preview of a Vanity Fair article on the Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin and Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sydney Crosby, the piece photographed by Bruce Weber.

Trevor Donovan was on the slopes Saturday competing in the 19th Annual Deer Valley Celebrity Skifest, Donovan on the winning team led by Robert Kennedy Jr.