Pride Week
Today: Today: Pride Rally, noon, Old Main steps; Drag Show, 10 p.m., HUB Alumni Hall. Tomorrow: Safer Sex Cabaret, 8 p.m., 105 Forum. Sunday: Potluck, 6:30 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel Memorial Lounge Posted on 04/05/2002 8:59:04 AM PST by StopGlobalWhining
The seventeenth annual Penn State Pride Week -- which celebrates the diversity of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community -- begins today with a rally and drag show.
"It's an educational program as well as a fun program," Rubina Javeri, Undergraduate Student Government president-elect said of the week's schedule.
Javeri, along with several other members of the Penn State community, will speak at the rally which begins at noon today on the Old Main steps.
Jennifer Storm, the week's co-director, explained the history behind the week.
The idea originated from a nation-wide campaign to celebrate the diversity of LGBT individuals.
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Pride Week
Today: Today: Pride Rally, noon, Old Main steps; Drag Show, 10 p.m., HUB Alumni Hall. Tomorrow: Safer Sex Cabaret, 8 p.m., 105 Forum. Sunday: Potluck, 6:30 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel Memorial Lounge |
The movement got started in June of 1969 when a violent protest erupted in the gay community of New York's Greenwich Village.
The uprising was in response to a long-time police campaign in the area, where officers would repeatedly raid lesbian and gay bars.
The raids were often violent in nature, ending in verbal, physical and sexual abuse.
On one particular night though, the community fought back, resulting in a protest that lasted several days and gained visibility for the issue.
Now, more than 30 years later, members of the LGBT community gather to remember that pivotal moment.
"It was really a huge turning point for gay rights," Storm said of the protest.
"That's pretty much where we got the whole concept of Pride Week from," she added.
Chris Brown, the other Pride Week co-director, was not available for comment yesterday because he was in Philadelphia picking up the drag queens.
The performers are part of a group called Guys as Dolls, and they will perform skits and musical numbers, portraying such popular figures as Cher and Madonna.
"They are an amazing act," Storm said of the troupe.
Also this weekend will be the Safer Sex Cabaret, a theatrical production about safer alternatives to sex, at 8 p.m. Saturday in 105 Forum.
There was some controversy over the content of the cabaret last year after state Rep. John Lawless (D-Montgomery) complained about Sex Faire, but this year they have had no problems.
"We've had absolutely no problems this year with the cabaret," Matt Leifer, Allies director, said.
Some problems did arise this year however, when USG Senate voted against funding the week.
"It didn't surprise me because of the conservatism that was going on at the time," Storm said, adding that several on-campus groups helped to make sure the week was properly funded.
More looniess from the tiny minority of wierdos that generate far more attention to their activities than is justified by their numbers. I wonder if there is any level of perversion that the administration of Penn State would say is too much?
This is rather funny, given that usually when these people talk about "educating" others about homosexuals, it's to prove that they're "normal". I'm just not sure why they think a drag show will do that!
It kind of makes me wonder why anyone would spend money on a college education these days, if that's the kind of "thinking" that results.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, the very essence of diversity!
I wonder if the SBC will boycott Penn State and members forbid their children from going to college there.
I doubt if the SBC could "forbid" their members from doing anything of the sort. However, they might recommend they boycott such a place and a lot would agree. But who knows? There are so many such targets in the Halls of Academie nowadays...
Penn State is a public institution and used to have a good reputation. Now the poor taxpayers will be stuck subsidizing such creepiness in a place they used to respect. But, that seems par for the course these days.
....while we've been sleeping (or standing with our heads in the sand)....they've been creeping!!!
...."the tiny minority?"
I don't think soooooo.....they have been growing for forty years or more
I think it'll likely be "bring your favorite little child lover" to celebrate pedophilia, and demand fairness and tolerance for pedophiles.
Just last week a transexual pedophile was the keynote sepaker at a Penn State Women's Health Conference. I am not making this up! See Pedophile Keynote Speaker at Penn State Womens' Health Conference.
Also see the pro-pedophile book from the University of Minnesota and the forward by none other than Jocelyn Elders.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,49382,00.html, the pedophile book.
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Harmful to Minors The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex Judith Levine Foreword by Dr. Joycelyn M. Elders |
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A radical, refreshing, and long overdue reassessment of how we think and act about children's and teens' sexuality. Through interviews with young people and their parents, stories drawn from today's headlines, visits to classrooms and clinics, and a look back at the ways sex among children and teenagers has been viewed throughout history, Judith Levine debunks some of the dominant myths of our society. She examines and challenges widespread anxieties (pedophilia, stranger kidnapping, Internet pornography) and sacred cows (abstinence-based sex education, statutory rape laws). Levine investigates the policies and practices that affect kids' sex lives-censorship, psychology, sex and AIDS education, family, criminal, and reproductive law, and the journalism that begs for "solutions" while inciting more fear. Harmful to Minors offers fresh alternatives to fear and silence, describing sex-positive approaches that are ethically based and focus on common sense. Levine provides optimistic, though realistic, prescriptions for how we might do better in guiding children toward loving well-that is, safely, pleasurably, and with respect for others and themselves. "Finally, THE book parents, teachers, librarians, clergy, and health professionals need to help them educate our children and teens about the real fact that most things about sex are healthy and normal. In a voice that reassures the adults who care for our children, Levine tells us why it is harmful to keep from children the honest and critical information they need to feel and stay physically and emotionally healthy." -Robie Harris, author of It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health "Sharp, extraordinarily informed, and wittily incisive . . . This is a major book, far and away the most wide-ranging, well-informed, and judicious we have on the subject. Levine's wisdom is compelling, and she offers the best kind of sophisticated and skeptical analysis. Each chapter is full of surprises, yet offers sensitive and gentle pointers to all of us, kids and adults, who are looking for ways out of these crushing dilemmas. It's a crusading book that is also kind, a very rare phenomenon, and it comes down always on the side of trusting not only our kids and their pleasures but our own." -James Kincaid, author of Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting "A much needed contribution to the discussion about children's sexuality, adult fears and irrationality about it, and the moral, political, and public health risks of failing to confront anxiety and ignorance about children's erotic desires and needs. Levine makes a compelling case that respecting and celebrating such desires and needs is essential to this country's historic project of promoting 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' for everyone who lives here--including those under 18. . . . An exceptionally smart and readable book." -Debbie Nathan, coauthor (with Michael Snedeker) of Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt Judith Levine is a journalist, essayist, and author who has written about sex, gender, and families for two decades. Her articles appear regularly in national publications, most recently Ms., nerve.com, and My Generation. An activist for free speech and sex education, Levine is a founder of the feminist group No More Nice Girls and the National Writers Union. She is the author of My Enemy, My Love: Women, Men, and the Dilemmas of Gender (1992), and lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Hardwick, Vermont. $25.95 Cloth/jacket ISBN 0-8166-4006-8 296 Pages 5 7/8 x 9 April 2002 |
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Here is the address where it was originally available:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/L/levine_harmful.html
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Harmful to Minors The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex Judith Levine Foreword by Dr. Joycelyn M. Elders |
Excerpt on pedophilia |
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A radical, refreshing, and long overdue reassessment of how we think and act about children's and teens' sexuality. Through interviews with young people and their parents, stories drawn from today's headlines, visits to classrooms and clinics, and a look back at the ways sex among children and teenagers has been viewed throughout history, Judith Levine debunks some of the dominant myths of our society. She examines and challenges widespread anxieties (pedophilia, stranger kidnapping, Internet pornography) and sacred cows (abstinence-based sex education, statutory rape laws). Levine investigates the policies and practices that affect kids' sex lives-censorship, psychology, sex and AIDS education, family, criminal, and reproductive law, and the journalism that begs for "solutions" while inciting more fear. Harmful to Minors offers fresh alternatives to fear and silence, describing sex-positive approaches that are ethically based and focus on common sense. Levine provides optimistic, though realistic, prescriptions for how we might do better in guiding children toward loving well-that is, safely, pleasurably, and with respect for others and themselves. "Finally, THE book parents, teachers, librarians, clergy, and health professionals need to help them educate our children and teens about the real fact that most things about sex are healthy and normal. In a voice that reassures the adults who care for our children, Levine tells us why it is harmful to keep from children the honest and critical information they need to feel and stay physically and emotionally healthy." -Robie Harris, author of It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health "Sharp, extraordinarily informed, and wittily incisive . . . This is a major book, far and away the most wide-ranging, well-informed, and judicious we have on the subject. Levine's wisdom is compelling, and she offers the best kind of sophisticated and skeptical analysis. Each chapter is full of surprises, yet offers sensitive and gentle pointers to all of us, kids and adults, who are looking for ways out of these crushing dilemmas. It's a crusading book that is also kind, a very rare phenomenon, and it comes down always on the side of trusting not only our kids and their pleasures but our own." -James Kincaid, author of Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting "A much needed contribution to the discussion about children's sexuality, adult fears and irrationality about it, and the moral, political, and public health risks of failing to confront anxiety and ignorance about children's erotic desires and needs. Levine makes a compelling case that respecting and celebrating such desires and needs is essential to this country's historic project of promoting 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' for everyone who lives here--including those under 18. . . . An exceptionally smart and readable book." -Debbie Nathan, coauthor (with Michael Snedeker) of Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt Judith Levine is a journalist, essayist, and author who has written about sex, gender, and families for two decades. Her articles appear regularly in national publications, most recently Ms., nerve.com, and My Generation. An activist for free speech and sex education, Levine is a founder of the feminist group No More Nice Girls and the National Writers Union. She is the author of My Enemy, My Love: Women, Men, and the Dilemmas of Gender (1992), and lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Hardwick, Vermont. $25.95 Cloth/jacket ISBN 0-8166-4006-8 296 Pages 5 7/8 x 9 April 2002 |
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You mean like Socrates, Aristotle, Alexander The Great, Abraham Lincoln and of course Jesus Christ the “homosexuals” posthumously claim to justify their perversion? Even those who practice incest and bestiality make their contributions to humanity, I’m sure we can find some more moral equivalencies if you want.
Of course, what about their pride? They’ve got needs too.
Thanks for the ping.
Thank God my boy chose the University of North Carolina to begin next fall. (At least I am presuming that Chapel Hill is not nearly as far down the scumbag liberal toilet as State College, PA.)
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