Al franken lgbtq comments
Ian S. Thompson,
Senior Legislative Advocate,
ACLU
Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.), a tough champion for lesbian, same-sex attracted, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth and students in Congress, has just released a new three minute video in support of S. 555, the Scholar Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA). This legislation would have a profound impact in advancing the lives of LGBT students in the U.S. by ensuring that discrimination and harassment of students on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity has no place in our country’s public elementary and secondary schools.
Franken’s new video is a spin on the It Gets Better Project’s messages of hope and support to LGBT youth in that it describes the SNDA as a concrete step to actually make life better for these young people. As Senator Franken states in the video, LGBT students shouldn’t have to remain until after they graduate from high school to be able to depart about their daily lives free from discrimination and harassment. The SNDA would help to make existence better for these students now.
As the video makes clear, there is a compelling need for this legislation. Discrimination, harassment, and even physical a
Ex-US Senator Al Franken regrets resigning over sexual misconduct claims
Former US Senator Al Franken has said he "absolutely" regrets resigning from his post in 2017 following a wave of accusations of sexual misconduct.
The Minnesota Democrat stepped down just three weeks after allegations of unwanted touching first surfaced, amid mounting pressure from colleagues.
Mr Franken told The New Yorker he wished his case had first been examined by the Senate Ethics Committee.
Now, seven of the 36 Democrats who demanded he resign say they regret it.
Mr Franken's hastened resignation came after Los Angeles radio host Leeann Tweeden claimed the former Saturday Night Live comic "aggressively" kissed her while they rehearsed a scene during a 2006 tour to entertain US troops in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
Ms Tweeden's account was bolstered by a photo of the two, in which Mr Franken appeared to touch her breasts while she slept. Her accusations were quickly followed by claims from seven additional women of groping or unwanted touching.
Mr Franken told the Recent Yorker he is functional to examine
Today, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) introduced the Student Nondiscrimination Act. A similar bill has been introduced in the House by Jared Polis (D-Colo.) In this post, California high college student Rochelle Hamilton, who came out as a lesbian when she was 13, writes about harassment and discrimination she faces at school.
Every time, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people meet discrimination, harassment and even violence because of who they are. In my case, I was called “ungodly,” and told I was “going to hell” for my “sin.” I was asked, “What are you, a man or a woman?” And I regularly had to listen that it’s “not right to be this way.”
What may surprise you is who my harassers were. All those comments came from teachers and staff at my old tall school in Vallejo.
All I wanted was to be able to go to school and be myself. I couldn’t do that when adults were judging me and telling me that something was false with me. I was even required to combine a counseling group that discouraged students from organism LGBT – like that’s even possible. How was I supposed to absorb like that?
I came out when I was 13, and I’m proud of who I am. The fact that more and more LGBT teena
Update, 7/14/15, 5:15 p.m.: The Senate voted down Franken’s measure on Tuesday afternoon. Forty-five senators voted no, leaving the measure short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.
Every congressional session for the past five years, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) has introduced legislation to protect LGBT students from harassment and bullying at public schools. Every time, it hasn’t so much as received a vote on the Senate floor. But on Tuesday, Franken thinks his long-suffering bill might finally achieve passage.
Since 2010, Franken has introduced the Student Non-Discrimination Act, a simple measure that would prohibit discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation—just as schools are already required to prevent discrimination due to sex, religion, or race. School administrators would be “expected to step in and set a policy that kids can’t do this,” Franken said in an interview with Mother Jones on Monday. “They can’t bully kids because they’re LGBT. If they do, they’ll be told not to and face disciplinary action just enjoy a kid who bullies kids because they’re black, or be
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On June 23 of last year, I held the microphone as a gay man in the New Orleans City Council Chamber and related a lost piece of queer history to the seven council members. I told this story to disabuse all Brand-new Orleanians of the notion that silence and accommodation, in the face of institutional and official failures, are a path to healing.
The story I related to them began on a typical Sunday late hours at a second-story bar on the fringe of Brand-new Orleans’ French Quarter in 1973, where working-class men would gather around a white baby grand piano and belt out the lyrics to a ballad that was the anthem of their hidden community, “United We Stand” by the Brotherhood of Man.
“United we stand,” the men would sing together, “divided we fall” — the words epitomizing the ethos of their beloved UpStairs Lounge bar, an egalitarian free room that served as a forerunner to today’s queer protected havens.
Around that piano in the 1970s Deep South, gays and lesbians, colorless and Black queens, Christians and non-Christians, and even premature gender minorities could cast aside the racism, sexism, and homophobia of the times to come across ac