Gay Unn Universy alumni speak out on school's polici, tolerance

Contents:

• IS GABRIELLE UNN GAY?
• MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
• GAY FORMER UNN STUNTS REUNT FEAR, TRMA OM A SCHOOL THAT DIDN'T WANT THEM

IS GABRIELLE UNN GAY?

The head of the cy teachers unn me out publicly as a lbian while receivg an award om a gay rights Wegarten - who has been open about her sexualy wh iends and lleagu for years - told the Daily News on Friday that she felt her speech durg the Empire State Pri Agenda dner on Thursday was "the right moment" to make public. Jon Communy Service Award Thursday, Wegarten relled a phone ll om a lleague suggtg that the state teachers unn not take a stand on a proposed nstutnal amendment barrg gay explag that she gave the lleague a piece of her md, Wegarten told the crowd, "At that pot, my sexual orientatn was not mon knowledge - as is now.

MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

Thursday was Natnal Comg Out Day, a day observed by lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr groups for g out and discsg homosexualy.

GAY FORMER UNN STUNTS REUNT FEAR, TRMA OM A SCHOOL THAT DIDN'T WANT THEM

But Wegarten said the timg of her speech was Council Speaker Christe Qun (D-Manhattan), who is openly gay and who troduced Wegarten at the dner, said she "uld not have been more proud. A former practicg attorney and teacher, Wegarten has tackled numero gay rights issu while leadg the UFT, cludg the tablishment of domtic-partner benefs for municipal workers and addg anti-discrimatn language to the teachers' Wegarten, whose partner, Liz Margoli, is a psychotherapist, said she always felt unfortable discsg her personal life until this week. The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni.

Surrogacy is illegal Italy, and gay marriage has not been legalized. “There is no discrimatn agast children, ” Fay Mister Eugenia Roccella told parliament when she troduced the bill June, explag that the children of gay upl would have accs to school and medil servic jt like those who only have one livg parent.

ROME — The Vatin says Pope Francis’ ments on gay civil unns were taken out of ntext a documentary that spliced together parts of an old terview, but still nfirmed Francis’ belief that gay upl should enjoy legal Vatin secretariat of state issued guidance to ambassadors to expla the uproar that Francis’ ments created followg the Oct.

Instead, he favored extendg legal protectns to gay upl unr what is unrstood Argenta as a civil unn Francis was known to have taken that posn privately, he had never articulated his support while as pope. The document, signed by Francis’ precsor as pope, says the church’s support for gay people “nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavr or to legal regnn of homosexual unns.

“More than a year ago, durg an terview, Pope Francis answered two different qutns at two different tim that, the aforementned documentary, were eded and published as a sgle answer whout proper ntextualizatn, which has led to nfn, ” said the guidance posted by the film, Afeevsky reunts the story of Andrea Rubera, a married gay Catholic who wrote Francis askg for his advice about brgg to the church his three young children wh his was an anguished qutn, given that the Catholic Church teach that gay people mt be treated wh digny and rpect but that homosexual acts are “trsilly disorred.

” The church also holds that marriage is an dissoluble unn between man and woman, and as a rult, gay marriage is the end, Rubera reunts how Francis urged him to approach his parish transparently and brg the children up the fah, which he did. “Homosexual people have the right to be a fay.