Boy Suts vs. Gays – Rollg Stone

Contents:

• BOY SUTS TO ALLOW GAY YOUTHS TO JO
• CAN A GAY BOY SUT SHARE A TENT WH ANOTHER BOY? BOY SUTS SURVEY MEMBERS ON ANTI-GAY POLICY
• GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
• COMPROMISE ON GAYS PLEAS NO ONE, SUTS ARE LEARNG
• BOY SUTS VS. GAYS
• BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

BOY SUTS TO ALLOW GAY YOUTHS TO JO

Openly gay youths will be allowed to jo sutg, a historic cisn the Boy Suts of Ameri says will keep uncloud by “a sgle, divisive, and unrolved societal issue.

“The rolutn also rerc that Sutg is a youth program, and any sexual nduct, whether heterosexual or homosexual, by youth of Sutg age is ntrary to the virtu of Sutg, ” the 103-year-old anizatn said a statement after the vote.

CAN A GAY BOY SUT SHARE A TENT WH ANOTHER BOY? BOY SUTS SURVEY MEMBERS ON ANTI-GAY POLICY

Tyrrell, an terview wh CNN affiliate KTVT, said that the vote energized her for her next ph – to change Boy Sut policy so that gays and lbian adults, like herself, n serve as lears. He claimed that sutg groups now have two optns: to “segregate” gay suts om heterosexual on by puttg them separate tents, or “put homosexual boys wh other boys and put them at risk.

“While a majory of adults the Sutg muny support the BSA’s current policy of excludg open and avowed homosexuals, young parents and teens tend to oppose the policy, ” the survey said. A recent Washgton Post-ABC News Poll showed that 63% of Amerins said they would support allowg gay youths to jo the Boy Suts. The vote more than a after the Supreme Court led that the anizatn has the right to keep out gays but also at a time of clg participatn the anizatn.

GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?

Ti Perez, the BSA’s natnal missner, said there have been ongog talks wh church and others opposed to the cln of gay suts. Some Friends have exprsed their ncerns about Quaker volvement wh Sutg bee of Boy Suts of Ameri’s policy preventg openly gay or lbian dividuals om beg members. While there is no global nsens on the issue, the Sut associatns Canada, the Uned Kgdom, and the Uned Stat wele gay, lbian, and transgenr youth and adults.

“There is no basis on which any volunteer offerg his or her servic any pacy n be refed an appotment , or Membership of, the Movement on the grounds of heterosexual or homosexual orientatn. Homosexualy has been perceived as patible wh Sutg by some people (both wh and outsi The Sut Associatn) on the basis of a prumed lk between homosexualy and paedophilia.

There is no lk between homosexualy and paedophilia, and therefore there is no jtifitn for rtrictg Membership on this basis. The Sut Associatn UK) has also prepared rource material to assist young gay and lbian members of Sutg g out and material to assist adults and lears  supportg young gay and lbian members of Sutg. But the summer of 1990, Dale received a letter rmg him that his membership had been revoked, simply bee he was gay.

COMPROMISE ON GAYS PLEAS NO ONE, SUTS ARE LEARNG

Dpe Dale’s 12-year relatnship wh the Boy Suts, the anizatn severed their ti wh him after learng of a news article that intified him as the -print of his universy’s Lbian/Gay Alliance. On July 27, a full 25 years after they revoked Dale’s membership, the anizatn announced would extend membership to openly gay lears.

More troublgly, though, the hatn also perpetuated the historic and homophobic perceptn of gay adults as promiscuo dividuals wh nefar tentns. Although is now possible for gay lears to serve openly the Boys Suts of Ameri, dog so is still jt that: a possibily, not a guarantee.

The Boy Suts has lifted s ban on openly gay lears and employe, but has allowed relig chartered anizatns, which operate more than 70 percent of the Boy Suts Sutg uns, “to e relig beliefs as creria for selectg adult lears, cludg matters of sexualy, ” acrdg to their announcement.

BOY SUTS VS. GAYS

” The are some of the qutns on a survey beg nducted by the Boy Suts of Ameri as the private youth anizatn prepar to ci whether should end s ntroversial policy banng gay Suts and lears. But this time, the BSA ed the survey to add qutns about the policy banng gays (those qutns went only to adults) spokman Deron Smh, who provid the qutns on the survey to NBC News, said an email that “the BSA is mted to dialogue on the topic of s membership standards policy, wh the Sutg fay at the lol and natnal levels.

BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS

The Boy Suts’ policy has creasgly been a sore spot for the anizatn over the last year, followg the dismissal of a n lear bee she is a lbian and the nial of the Eagle Sut rank to a California teen bee he is gay. Tristam HarrgtonWhen the BSA announced late January that may dch the natnal policy and stead let lol sponsorg anizatns ci if gays n jo, the anizatn received a flood of rpons om both sis.

The Boy Suts have asked for the surveys to be returned by April BSA also asked if the currently policy was a “re value” of Sutg and if rponnts would leave the BSA if a cisn was ma that disagreed wh their qutns on the survey clu:A gay male troop lear, along wh another adult lear, is takg a group of boys on a mpg trip followg the youth protectn guil of two-ep learship. Related stori: Boy Suts: We need more time for cisn on gay SutsAfter years of heartache, gay Suts and supporters react warily over proposal to lift ban'Gravely distrsed': Relign looms large over Boy Suts cisn on gays 'BATTLESTATIONS!

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

At the time, the BSA stated that havg gay Sutmasters ntradicted the Sut Oath keepg s members “morally straight.