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On
the opposite end of the spectrum is Fox News host Glenn Beck , who deserves yet another round of boos. On hearing the news that
nearly 90-year-old Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens plans to retire, he managed in a single sentence to marginalize
everyone who is not what he is – a white male. “She could be the devil,
she could say ‘I hate America, I want to destroy America,’ and that way
they’ll only be able to say, ‘Oh, Why do you hate gay immigrant black,
handicapped women.’ Because that’s what this has to be.”

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Friday is the 15th annual Day of
Silence at high schools across the country. Students
nationwide take a vow of silence to bring attention to the bullying and
harassment LGBT students experience at school. Fox News took the opportunity to mock the event,
posting a story that said, “Thousands of public schools nationwide will
allow students affiliated with a gay and lesbian advocacy group to
sponsor an anti-bullying ‘Day of Silence.’ ” Afflicted? The story goes
on to say the event is a waste of money, citing experts from
“conservative family organizations.” No bias there, right? Laurie
Higgins, director of school advocacy for the Illinois Family Institute,
told Fox, “There are better ways to use taxpayer money. We send our kids
there to learn the subjectmatter,not … to be unwillingly exposed to
political protest during instructional time.”
If we look back, say
four paragraphs in time, to the case of Constance McMillen, it is clear
that bullying and harassment is a integral part of high school for LGBT
kids. But she is hardly the only one. Carl Walker-Hoover, an
11-year-old who did not even identify as gay, took his own life after
enduring anti-gay bullying and harassment. Or think of Matthew Shepard,
the gay college student who was brutally killed in Wyoming. The list
goes on and on.

Maybe it’s time folks
like Laurie Higgins go back to school to learn a lesson in diversity.
That is the subject matter taxpayers should be happy to pay for.

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“Facts of Life” graduate Mindy Cohn will be starring in the upcoming film “Violet Tendencies” as the
“world’s oldest fag hag.” And, wow, does she have a cast of adorable
boys. The film, directed by Casper Andreas, follows Cohn as she tries to
put some distance between herself and her gay boys in an effort to find
a straight man. It’s basically a
looking-for-love-in-all-the-wrong-places saga. And it sounds like fun .

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The
folks at Queeried used Google trends to compile some very
interesting comparison data. A top 10 list of the states that spend the
most time on gay porn sites finds Southern states like those dirty
videos a lot more than they are willing to admit. They are the same
states where gays are not allowed to marry. The same states where prom’s
occasionally get canceled if a lesbian wants to attend with a date. And
the same states where a church urges a town to vote against a mayoral
candidate with a “no homo” campaign.

1. Vermont


2. Mississippi


3. Louisiana


4. Arkansas


5. Nevada


6. Kentucky


7. Alabama


8. South
   Carolina


9. Oklahoma


10. Florida