Equally Speaking
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Good morning and thanks for tuning in to Equally Speaking, your morning dose of GLBT news from the Human Rights Campaign for Friday, April 25th. I'm Betsy Pursell.
And I'm Candace Gingrich. First up, a solemn event being observed across the country.
Today is National Day of Silence, a nationwide event where middle school, high school and college students draw attention to the harassment experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. Students will wear buttons, stickers and T-shirts promoting the event and explaining their silence. This year's Day of Silence is dedicated to Lawrence King, a 15 year old California student who was killed by a classmate.
A suburban Chicago school district has been ordered to allow a student to wear a T-shirt denouncing homosexuality on the National Day of Silence. The seventh circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued a temporary reversal of two lower courts rulings that found the Neuqua Valley High School was justified in barring a student from wearing a homemade T-shirt that said "Be Happy, Not Gay" on the 2006 Day of Silence.
After 214 days and an e-mail campaign by angry fans that generated international coverage, the gay teen couple on CBS soap opera "As the World Turns," finally got to share their third on-screen kiss. In 2007, the couple came out together in a move that won acclaim from GLBT media watchdogs and found a large and vocal following. Before this week, the couple had kissed only twice since coming out.
Moscow Mayor Yuri Lushkov has banned pride celebrations in the city. The events had been scheduled to take place next month. This is the twelfth year in a row the city has refused to issue permits to GLBT rights groups. Last year, the mayor refused a parade license citing security concerns. However, members of the GLBT community, many of them from the European Union, marched anyway.
A Singapore television station has been fined for airing a show that depicted a gay couple and their baby in a way that "promotes a gay lifestyle," the city-state's media regulator said Thursday. The station aired an episode of a home and decor series called "Find and Design" that featured a gay couple wanting to transform their game room into a new nursery for their adopted baby. MediaCorp TV Channel 5 will be fined $11,000 for airing the show.
A new study on the hopes and aspirations of GLBT young people has found that most want to spend their adult life in a long-term relationship raising children. More than 90 percent of young lesbians and more than 80 percent of gay males report that they expect to be partnered in a monogamous relationship after age 30. The study, conducted by the Rockway Institute, is believed to be the first major study of its kind.
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