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Contents:
- MANY STUNTS DISPUTE NIALS OF GAY HARASSMENT
- EQUY AMEWORK EMERG AS RPONSE TO ANTI-GAY ACTS
- ST. PETER ATHLETE TARGET OF ANTI-GAY HARASSMENT NEW ULM GAM
MANY STUNTS DISPUTE NIALS OF GAY HARASSMENT
NEW ULM — A special assembly was held at New Ulm High School on Tuday rponse to news stori cg anti-gay ments ma durg basketball gam agai * new ulm journal gay rights *
NEW ULM — A special assembly was held at New Ulm High School on Tuday rponse to news stori cg anti-gay ments ma durg basketball gam agast an openly gay player on the St.
EQUY AMEWORK EMERG AS RPONSE TO ANTI-GAY ACTS
NEW ULM— The creatn of New Ulm High School’s new gay-straight alliance club PRISM was announced to the District 88 school board mut before a petn * new ulm journal gay rights *
The assembly beme more tense after the New Ulm basketball player who allegedly ma anti-gay ments and allegedly pched the St. The player nied makg anti-gay statement durg the Feb. Peter player as “the gay kid.
The player said, “When I was gettg subbed out of the game, a teammate me , and I told him who I was guardg, and I said, ‘I got the gay kid. Bergmann acknowledged the player should not have referred to the stunt as the gay kid but did not want this cint to overshadow everythg else the stunts had acplished.
Immediately followg this statement, a stunt yelled out prott, sayg, “You don’t know what feels like to be shoved a locker and lled a homophobic slur for lookg at someone, or to not be able to walk down the hallways safely. The stunt said was monplace for them to face homophobic slurs. He’s hopeful the meetg wh stunts on Monday will help intify barriers reportg anti-gay harassment.
ST. PETER ATHLETE TARGET OF ANTI-GAY HARASSMENT NEW ULM GAM
It is easy to view the accatns of anti-gay harassment durg the New Ulm/St. Peter basketball gam this wter as an isolated cint. When a New Ulm play * new ulm journal gay rights *
New Ulm High School plans to addrs the recent cints regardg homophobic ments ma durg basketball gam agast rival St. A recent article published the Star Tribune ced multiple cints which an openly gay stunt on St.
Peter’s High School Basketball team was subjected to homophobic ments om a New Ulm player as well as om teens the New Ulm stunt sectn durg the game.
NEW ULM — The Human Rights Commissn (HRC) on Monday discsed tnal opportuni for the muny the wake of recent anti-gay harassment durg N * new ulm journal gay rights *
15 game wh New Ulm, a player ma anti-gay ments all game and kept pchg the St. Peter stunt faced no verbal harassment but was pched aga by the same player who ma anti-gay ments durg the last game. The Uny Event was anized rponse to recent articl regardg anti-gay harassment ma durg New Ulm High School basketball gam agast an openly gay player on the St.
Several past and prent members of the New Ulm muny have e forward after this cint to speak out agast anti-gay discrimatn. rponse to recent articl regardg anti-gay harassment.
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the gay pri flag and cheer other monstrators durg the. Most atten were om New Ulm, but members om the Mankato, Malia, Gaylord and St.
Openly gay Pastor Stt Richards of Try Lutheran and St. Pl’s Lutheran Gaylord was attendance, wearg a rabow stole. One anonymo stunt said the recent cints volvg anti-gay ments were mon at the school but was hopeful they would see a change.