Homophobia
Includes discrimination against gays and lesbians, and gay identity
Homophobia
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11-Year-Old Hangs Himself after Enduring Daily Anti-Gay Bullying
On April 5, an 11-year old boy committed suicide as a
response to repeated bullying at school. The boy, who did not identify as gay,
was harassed daily with homophobic slurs.
The GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) website has posted
an article
about this tragic event. |
Facing Today | April 15, 2009 |
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After Stonewall 88 minutes After Stonewall, the sequel to Before Stonewall, chronicles the history of lesbian and gay life from the riots of Stonewall in 1969 to the end of the 20th century. Narrated by Melissa Etheridge, it captures the hard work, struggles, tragic defeats and exciting victories experienced since then. It explores how AIDS literally changed the direction of the movement. |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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An Interview with Matthew Shepard’s Mother In 1998, twenty-one year old Matthew Shepard was viciously murdered because he was gay. |
Facing Today | September 16, 2009 |
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Assault on Gay America 60 minutes In February 1999, 30-year-old Bill Jack Gaither was murdered. The accused killer, a known white supremacist, testified he killed Gaither because he was "queer." Why have gays like Gaither and Matthew Shepard become the targets of such brutality? This Frontline episode explores the roots of homophobia in America and asks how these attitudes, beliefs and fears contribute to the recent rise in violence against gays. |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community 89 minutes Source: First Run Features In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city’s gay community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the Gay Liberation Movement had begun. Before Stonewall pries open the closet door—setting free the dramatic story of the sometimes horrifying public and private existences experienced by gay and lesbian Americans since the 1920s. Related lesson: |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin 83 minutes |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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Colorado Nazi Group Adopts a Highway The Nazi Party of Colorado has sponsored a mile long stretch of US Highway 85. |
Facing Today | February 1, 2010 |
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Coming Out in Middle School Benoit Denizet-Lewis reports in his New York Times Magazine article “Coming Out in Middle School” that more and more middle-school students are openly gay. “Just how they’re faring in a world that wasn’t expecting them – and that isn’t so sure a 12-year-old can know if he’s gay – is a complicated question that defies simple geographical explanations,” Denizet-Lewis writes. |
Facing Today | September 30, 2009 |
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Congress Extends Hate Crime Protections Congress voted on October 22 to extend federal protection to people who are physically attacked because of their “gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability” by passing the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. |
Facing Today | October 26, 2009 |
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Gay Student’s Slaying in California Sparks Outcry, Demands for Better Tolerance
(International Herald
Tribune, March 28, 2008) The article "Gay student's slaying in California
sparks outcry, demands for better tolerance programs,"
tells the story of fifteen-year-old Lawrence King, who was shot by another
student on February 12, 2008 in Oxnard. |
Facing Today | May 14, 2008 |
