Posted on 02/26/2012 9:48:20 AM PST by artichokegrower
What began as an idea to promote healthy and positive role models for queer youth, their families and the community nearly 15 years ago has given rise to one of the most robust and longest-running queer youth leadership award programs in the country.
Over the years, hundreds of youth and allies have been nominated and awarded, including many prominent schools, school officials, organizations, elected officials, community organizers, educators, and LGBT and allied youth alike. With so much community support and involvement, QYLA has not only become a dynamic LGBT youth award program, it has become a beacon for the vision of a community that fully empowers, supports and nurtures its youth, as a whole.
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Is that really the official name of this organization?
The best idea would be to first stop being queer.
Is that really the official name of this organization?
I agree with you. Most bizarre thing I’ve ever heard of.
Can you imagine the uproar if there was a Straight Youth Leadership Awards?
Nifty!
We can start saying ‘Queer’ again?
A dictionary link:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/queer
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queerness n.
Usage Note: A reclaimed word is a word that was formerly used solely as a slur but that has been semantically overturned by members of the maligned group, who use it as a term of defiant pride. Queer is an example of a word undergoing this process. For decades queer was used solely as a derogatory adjective for gays and lesbians, but in the 1980s the term began to be used by gay and lesbian activists as a term of self-identification. Eventually, it came to be used as an umbrella term that included gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered people. Nevertheless, a sizable percentage of people to whom this term might apply still hold queer to be a hateful insult, and its use by heterosexuals is often considered offensive. Similarly, other reclaimed words are usually offensive to the in-group when used by outsiders, so extreme caution must be taken concerning their use when one is not a member of the group.
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Well, that’s just Gay.....
Justin Beiber, the cast of Twilight; who else am I missing?
Yes and this organization and event are funded by our local United Way.
I wonder how much State and Fed tax money this Org gets??
No Exodus International* alumni need apply.
*For those unfamiliar, an organization that employs a combination of therapy and deliverance ministry to change homosexuals into heterosexuals.
It is called corrupting a minor and it used to be a criminal offense.
So much for the BULLSTALIN LIE that it is about consenting ADULTS in PRIVATE.
Celebrate Perversity!
No.
The Most Deluded & In Need Of Loving Help Award!
Yea.
Actually, Justin Bieber is pro-life.
http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2011/02/16/justin-bieber-abortion-rolling-stone-interview/
Thanks for the link to the definition of a “reclaimed” word. I’ve wondered how some words are are allowed to be uttered by a certain group of people but otherwise considered to be hate speech if used by others. How clever these modern linguists are!
I’m not nominating anyone, but I hear that Barney Frank will be giving an award.
“Bend over and grab your ankles boy! Barney’s giving you the Golden Hose of Honor!”
Out of the closet and into your schools.
This came out of The Onion, right?
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