| Gay pride week kicks off Sunday with a blessing
The Jersey City Lesbian and Gay Outreach, Inc. and Grace Church Van Vorst will kick off Jersey City Pride Week Sunday by hosting a ceremonial blessing ceremony for same-sex couples. The Rev. Gregory Perez will conduct the service, which will consist of hymns, songs of praise, scriptural and non-scriptural readings, prayer and a special blessing of relationships. Lesbian and Gay couples, their families and friends are all invited to the blessing. Jersey City Pride Week will culminate with the Jersey City Pride Festival on Aug. 26 from noon to 8 p.m. at Exchange Place. For more information, visit www.jclgo.org or www.gracevanvorst.org or call Grace Van Vorst Church at (201) 659-2211, ext. 4. PATRICK VILLANOVA .
San Diego Teachers Blasted for Brining Kids to Gay Pride Event
(AgapePress) - Teachers at an elementary charter school in San Diego, California, are being condemned for bringing young children to participate in the city's "gay pride" parade last month. James Hartline, a former homosexual turned Christian activist, reports that teachers with the San Diego Cooperative Charter School brought children to the July 29 San Diego Pride Parade. A picture in the school newsletter shows several teachers and other individuals affiliated with the school marching in the parade. Hartline says the annual homosexual pride celebration in San Diego is "really just an advertisement for the triple-x gay pornography industry." Seeing children only six to twelve years old, walking with adults from the charter school in that parade was "just so heartbreaking," he says, because anyone who has never seen what these events are like "can just imagine the depravity that's in this parade." The Christian pro-family advocate finds it shocking and demoralizing that teachers or any other adults would bring innocent children around the goings on at the San Diego Pride event.
Black Gay Magazine Premieres in Atlanta
(Atlanta, GA) - For the huge Labor Day Black Gay Pride weekend, Atlanta's Gay and Lesbian population will be treated to a new magazine that serves the African American and Latino Gay and Lesbian communities. "I could not believe that there was no publication in Atlanta that served the African American and Latino GLBT communities. The entire country is well aware of the large number of African American Gays and Lesbians in Atlanta. In many states, Atlanta is considered the 'Black Gay Mecca,'" said Eric Gilbert, founder and investor in RMI Publications Inc, a 10 year old publishing company established in Los Angeles, CA. RMI Publishing specializes in niche publications. Noble is Gilbert's latest venture. The publication premiered three years ago originally but Gilbert admits he and his staff were not familiar enough with the market at the time.
Tufts comes out in top 20 schools for gay students
Recognized for its continued support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) students, Tufts was named one of the most gay-friendly campuses in a ranking released last month.
The Advocate magazine's first ever College Guide for LGBT Students ranks Tufts University as one of their "best of the best" top 20 schools. The ranking is based on a 20-item checklist, which yields what The Advocate calls a "gay point average." Tufts scored recognition in 18 of the items.
"The list reflects the diversity of concerns that LGBT students might have," said Bruce Steele, Editor-in-Chief of The Advocate, which is the nation's longest-running gay magazine. "What the gay point average reflects is whether the college itself is making an effort, and the impact of that effort is very subjective."
LGBT Center Director Dona Yarbrough said that Tufts only missed out on two of the 20 criteria, "actively recruits LGBT students to enroll on campus," and "offers LGBT student scholarships."
"We have no sustained efforts in those areas, so we lost two points," she said.
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