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Contents:

• ROOM CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE
• CATHOLIC SCHOOLS AND GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC
• 'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' NAME FORC BATE ONTAR
• BELONGG - A GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• IOWA CATHOLIC SCHOOL APPROV GAY CLUB
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: A MATTER OF RIGHTS
• ONTAR ULD IMPOSE GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC ON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
• PREMIER FENDS 'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
• CATHOLIC U. AND NOTRE DAME UNE TO WORK FOR GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC
• CATHOLIC SUPPORT FOR GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC: 'IT'S WHAT OUR FAH LLS TO DO.'
• WHERE TO GO WHEN IM YOUNG GAY? - AMSTERDAM FOM

ROOM CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE

One was the Amerin standard, while the other was the rabow banner of gay Papeo, 17, was the classroom for a meetg of Xavier’s Gay-Straight Alliance.

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS AND GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC

Papeo posned himself at a dry-erase board, preparg to wre a list of the recent ton for gay rights at Xavier and the rt of the Lavy, one of three faculty advisers, lled for ias om the 14 stunts the room. Yet as the board filled wh events of the last year — same-sex marriage allowed by the Supreme Court, Irish voters enactg that largely Catholic untry, the rabow flag hangg Xavier’s hallway durg Pri Month June — somethg profound was beg mere existence of a Gay-Straight Alliance a Roman Catholic high school unted as part of the transformatn of both secular and relig attus toward gays.

'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' NAME FORC BATE ONTAR

Xavier’s embrace of s openly gay stunts amid the morate, acceptg tone that Pope Francis has stck about gay Catholics — most libly his rhetoril qutn, “Who am I to judge? “Prevly, the argument agast a Gay-Straight Alliance at a Catholic high school or llege would have been that we don’t want to endorse non-Catholic liftyl. ”Ined, while is rare for a Catholic school to sponsor a Gay-Straight Alliance, s emergence at Xavier fs wh a broar moratn of Amerin Catholic opn on homosexualy.

BELONGG - A GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE

A poll released recently by the Pew Rearch Center found Amerin Catholics evenly spl on whether the church should regnize gay and lbian marriag.

Nearly two-thirds of rponnts said was acceptable for children to be raised a gay or lbian signifint dividg le the survey opened up between Catholics who did or did not attend Mass weekly. Twice over the prev , Xavier put on stunt productns of “The Laramie Project, ” Mois Kfman’s play about the murr of Matthew Shepard, a gay llege stunt alg wh s gay stunts, Xavier had stggled to be both sensive and discreet, all wh the bounds of church teachg. Lavy, now his 13th year at Xavier, the need for a more public and affirmg anizatn had bee evint wh the 2010 suici of Tyler Clementi, a gay stunt at Rutgers Universy who had been spied upon and outed onle by two classmat.

Nothg worse transpired than some baffled looks om parents at the alliance’s table durg Open School stunts and teachers the alliance scribe , the ontier of homophobia Xavier is primarily verbal. Phras like “that’s so gay” and “grow a set” form the lgua an of sults, pecially among hmen and sophomor who have not yet absorbed Xavier’s ethos.

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

Costa put together a walkg tour of gay historil s Greenwich Village like the Stonewall Inn, the se of the 1969 rts that helped galvanize the fight for gay rights, and the stunt newspaper wrote an article to . Twter: @SamuelGFreedman A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 17 of the New York edn wh the headle: Room Catholic School for Gay-Straight Alliance. GLSEN, the Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network, is a natnal anizatn that provis rourc to improve the atmosphere for LGBTQ stunts gras K–12.

Acrdg to Alexanr Lavy, a physics teacher who is openly gay and serv as one of three faculty advisers to Xavier’s GSA, this is why Xavier admistrators started the group: They wanted to create a safe school.

IOWA CATHOLIC SCHOOL APPROV GAY CLUB

Admistrators rpond to the 2010 suici of Tyler Clementi, a gay Rutgers Universy stunt whose classmat filmed him an timate enunter wh another man and outed him onle. The high-profile se drew natnal attentn to anti-gay bullyg and the shockg realy that gay and lbian teens are two to three tim more likely to m suici than other youths. The Catholic Church fac a lite balancg act of upholdg two signifint teachgs, says Michael Maher, who has worked as a Catholic mp mister for many years and has rearched and wrten about gay and lbian stunts Catholic schools.

“The magisterium (the church’s teachg thory) do not ndone homosexual behavr, yet enurag the Christian muny to be welg and supportive to LGBTQ persons, ” he says.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: A MATTER OF RIGHTS

Bishops’ documents, Always Our Children (1997) and Mistry to Persons wh a Homosexual Inclatn (2006), highlight that balancg act.

The former document is addrsed to “parents tryg to pe wh the disvery of homosexualy their adolcent or adult child” and acknowledg the “tensn between lovg your child as God’s prec creatn and not wantg to endorse any behavr you know the Church teach is wrong.

ONTAR ULD IMPOSE GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC ON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

“The phenomenon of homosexualy pos challeng that n only be met wh the help of a clear unrstandg of the place of sexualy wh God’s plan for humany, ” says. While rerc the church’s mment to human digny, the letter also clus a sectn many LGBTQ people and alli fd unfortable: “The homosexual clatn is objectively disorred, i.

” Bee of this, she explas, mp misters and chaplas are ccial addrsg all relatnship issu: homosexualy, premaral sex, habatn, divorce, and remarriage. In the meantime, Sister Flemg is not nvced GSAs are the bt way for Catholic high schools to addrs homosexualy—not bee the church shouldn’t talk about sexualy, but bee of church teachg on the tegratn of the human person. Maher chronicled Catholic schools’ wispread silence about homosexualy his 2001 book, Beg Gay and Lbian a Catholic High School: Beyond the Uniform (Routledge).

PREMIER FENDS 'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

The book is based on two stunt surveys and on his 1995 and 1996 terviews wh 25 gay and lbian adults who attend Catholic high schools the late 1980s and early 1990s.

CATHOLIC U. AND NOTRE DAME UNE TO WORK FOR GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC

“The p admonns of the Catholic magisterium are beg lost a vast sea of homophobia, ” claimed a 2002 review by the Ju magaze Ameri. Catholic schools have a rponsibily to talk about homosexualy and same-sex marriage, says Heather Gossart, director of special projects at NCEA and a 40-year-veteran of Catholic tn. Seventy percent of lennials—those between the ag of 18 and 34—say relig groups alienate youth by beg judgmental on gay/lbian issu, acrdg to the Public Relign Rearch Instute (PRRI).

CATHOLIC SUPPORT FOR GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC: 'IT'S WHAT OUR FAH LLS TO DO.'

Furthermore, about a third of lennials who no longer intify wh their childhood relign say negative teachgs about or mistreatment of gays and lbians was an important factor their disaffiliatn. Aaron Lesma, who wr a blog lled “The Gay Catholic, ” didn’t feel he uld be open about his sexual orientatn when he attend Strake Ju College Preparatory high school Hoton, Texas.

Wele to the Gay Straight Alliance portal, one of the most tnal plac on the web updated daily and dited to each person who striv for human rights. Every gay and straight stunt has a right to a public tn an environment that is ee om harassment, vlence, namellg and timidatn.

WHERE TO GO WHEN IM YOUNG GAY? - AMSTERDAM FOM

Amerin rightwg fascists are tryg to stop you om discsg human rights for gay people wh your iends school, but the First Amendment is alive and well the USA. This is the first sign that such tste, admistrators, and school systems are disgenuo about nontg homophobia and discrimatn; they start out discrimatg agast your anizatn by tryg to dictate s name and prevent s name beg ed to most-easily nvey s purpose.