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Contents:

• JAM BADGE DALE FATHER WAS ANTHONY PERKS GAY LOVER
• JAM DALE: ALUMN PUT A SPOTLIGHT ON DISCRIMATN AGAST GAYS
• INTERVIEW WH JAYM VGHAN, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHIPPENDALE
• THE SUPREME COURT: THE NEW JERSEY CASE; SUPREME COURT BACKS BOY SUTS IN BAN OF GAYS FROM MEMBERSHIP
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• ‘ULTIMATE FIGHTER’ CONTTANT SAYS ‘GAY FOR PAY’ PAST WAS MISTAKE

JAM BADGE DALE FATHER WAS ANTHONY PERKS GAY LOVER

Ana Morris dancg to a medly om "Gypsy" at the Tony AwardsThis dancg shows off her movHow uld she marry a gay guy, she uld get any straight she 53 Mut to vio to see her dance chopsOffse Lkby Anonymoreply 82September 26, 2018 3:22 PM. A legal challenge to the Boy Suts of Ameri’s ban on gay suts talyzed the acceptance of gay youths as membersWhile a Rutgers Universy stunt 1990, Jam Dale, an Eagle Sut, was oted om membership the Boy Suts of Ameri bee he was gay.

A follow-up letter was very clear: “The grounds for this membership revotn are the standards for learship tablished by the Boy Suts of Ameri, which specifilly forbid membership to homosexuals. Already active several stunt anizatns, he beme print of the Rutgers Universy Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Alliance (RULGA), the forenner to the Rutgers Center for Social Jtice Edutn and LGBT Communi.

JAM DALE: ALUMN PUT A SPOTLIGHT ON DISCRIMATN AGAST GAYS

On May 21, 2015, BSA Natnal Print Robert Gat stated that the "stat quo [ban on gay adult lears] [the BSA] movement's membership standards nnot be staed" and that he would no longer seek to revoke the charters of chapters that accept gay adult lears. In July 1990, he was a featured speaker at a Rutgers School of Social Work nference on the health needs of lbian and gay teenagers and was terviewed by the Newark Star Ledger. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTTHE SUPREME COURT: THE NEW JERSEY CASEJune 29, 2000See the article s origal ntext om June 29, 2000, Sectn A, Page 1Buy ReprtsTimMache is an exclive benef for home livery and digal Supreme Court led today by a 5-to-4 vote that the Boy Suts have a nstutnal right to exclu gay members bee opposn to homosexualy is part of the anizatn's ''exprsive msage.

''The cisn overturned a lg last year by the New Jersey Supreme Court that applied the state's law agast discrimatn public acmodatns to require a New Jersey troop to readm a longtime member and assistant sutmaster, Jam Dale, whom had dismissed after learng he was gay. Rehnquist said that the urt tend neher to approve nor disapprove the Boy Suts' view of homosexualy, but that the First Amendment's protectn for eedom of associatn meant that the state uld not pel the 6.

INTERVIEW WH JAYM VGHAN, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHIPPENDALE

''He said ''Dale's prence the Boy Suts would, at the very least, force the anizatn to send a msage, both to the youth members and the world, that the Boy Suts accepts homosexual nduct as a legimate form of behavr. Patrick's Day para anizers to exclu a group that sought to march unr a banner of Irish gay the dissenters objected strenuoly to that prciple's applitn this se, bee they said the majory had done ltle more than accept at face value the Boy Suts' assertn of the central importance of their opposn to homosexualy.

THE SUPREME COURT: THE NEW JERSEY CASE; SUPREME COURT BACKS BOY SUTS IN BAN OF GAYS FROM MEMBERSHIP

But except briefs filed s fendg their membership policy, the Boy Suts had never ma the ''clear, unequivol statement necsary to prevail'' on a claim that homosexualy was fundamentally patible wh the anizatn's missn, the dissenters Jtice Rehnquist's majory opn was joed by Jtic Sandra Day O'Connor, Anton Slia, Anthony M. 99-699, the chief jtice quoted om var Boy Suts publitns and explanatns of the policy, notg that though the terms ''morally straight'' and ''clean'' the Sut Oath and Law ''are by no means self-fg, '' Sut officials terpreted them as statements of opposn to Harlow, puty legal director of the Lambda Legal Defense Fund New York, said today that the Boy Suts had won only a ''hollow, Pyrrhic victory'' bee to w the se, had to monstrate to the urt's satisfactn the centraly of s opposn to homosexualy. Dale before the urt, said the cisn ''requir you to clare yourself an stutn wh an anti-gay msage, and we don't thk there are many anizatns this day and age willg to clare themselv as that.

''In his dissentg opn, Jtice Stevens noted several newspaper articl om the last few weeks that scribed a gay pri day at the Central Intelligence Agency, a New England boardg school's acceptance of openly gay upl as dormory parents and the extensn of benefs to gay partners by the major tomobile makers.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

''The past month alone has wnsed some remarkable chang attus about homosexuals, '' he Jtice Rehnquist rpond: ''Ined, appears that homosexualy has gaed greater societal acceptance.

''Jtice Stevens said dissent that the majory's distctn was unpersuasive bee jt as the all-male clubs had not ma the excln of women a central goal, ''there is no shared goal or llective effort to foster a belief about homosexualy'' the Boy Suts, ''let alone one that is signifintly burned by admtg homosexuals. ''Jtice Stevens said: ''The only apparent explanatn for the majory's holdg, then, is that homosexuals are simply so different om the rt of society that their prence alone -- unlike any other dividual's -- should be sgled out for special First Amendment treatment.

Dale's sexual se attracted dozens of briefs, a number pictg this legal battle -- which the Boy Suts have been wagg urts around the untry for 20 years -- as the cuttg edge of the current culture Dale was an Eagle Sut and popular member and then assistant lear of the troop he had joed at the age of 8 when, 12 years later, he was ejected after his picture appeared a New Jersey newspaper article about a gay stunt nference at Rutgers, where he was -print of the gay and lbian stunts' anizatn. A rrectn was ma onJuly 1, 2000: An article on Thursday about groups that disagreed wh the Supreme Court lg allowg the Boy Suts of Ameri to exclu gays misstated the posn of the Uned Methodist Church.

‘ULTIMATE FIGHTER’ CONTTANT SAYS ‘GAY FOR PAY’ PAST WAS MISTAKE

Although the church oppos discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, did not enurage ngregatns to sever ti wh the Boy we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: THE SUPREME COURT: THE NEW JERSEY CASE; Supreme Court Backs Boy Suts In Ban of Gays From Membership. "But Dale's attorney, Evan Wolfson of the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, says the real issue is whether banng gays is sential to the Boy Suts' purpose; n they teach moraly and have gay members?

Wolfson pots out that there is nothg the handbook that says they don't perm gay members or that their goal is to promote anti-gay beliefs; stead, he says, their stated ials are cln and rpect.

Lower urts have stck down as overly broad universy regulatns that sought to mimize or prohib offensive speech on mp  such a way that limed the abily of stunts or faculty to discs the effects of blogil sex differenc or petg views on whether homosexualy uld be “cured” through psychologil unselg. The urt's opn noted that the ke-maker had not refed to sell all of his non-ctom ke products to gays but stead argued he should not be forced “to e his artistic skills to make an exprsive statement” endorsg same-sex marriage wh a ctom ke.