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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

GLSEN Survey Finds 82 Percent Of LGBT Teens Say They've Been Verbally Harassed At School

Six out of 10 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) teens say they feel unsafe at school. Eighty-two percent of that same group say they've been verbally harassed because of their sexual orientation, while 71 percent say they've heard homophobic remarks like "dyke" or "faggot" used with some frequency at school.

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	Rob Watson: A Gay Dad Sounds Off: 10 Reasons Why Conservative Christians Should Be Fighting for Gay Marriage Fighting for gay marriage would reaffirm the image of Christians as people of warmth and compassion who help make marriages work and maintain romance. Christians would be the advocates of loving families, not their adversaries. How great would that be?
	Lucas Case: Restoring America Is Understandable; Restoring the Inquisition Is Not As a gay Republican, I am proudly throwing my support behind Missouri's moderate U.S. senator Claire McCaskill for her reelection. We can vote to go back to medieval times, like many are apparently wanting to do, or we can progress as a state that ends extremism once and for all.
	Conor Gaughan: The Extended Coming Out One reason I got so personal last month was because of a powerful statistic that will matter come Nov. 6: Straight people who know gay people are significantly more likely to support LGBT rights, by 20 points in one ABC News/Washington Post poll.
	Mark Potok: Family Research Council Attacks on SPLC Dishonest Words do have consequences. But is the FRC's propaganda and schoolyard name-calling really the same thing as the SPLC listing the FRC as a hate group?
	Joseph Vellone: Growing Up Gay in Senegal Djamil Bangoura has known he is gay since childhood. Growing up in Pikine, a slum of Senegal's sprawling capital city, Dakar, he kept his sexual orientation a secret for fear of violence, imprisonment, and alienation from his family -- the core of Senegalese life.