If a vagina makes you unfit for service as a schoolteacher, it seems a whole slew of other educational institutions didn t get the memo. In Manchester, N.H., last March, the local school board barred gay students from forming an after-school support organization. Grimly enough, this isn t entirely surprising. What is surprising is the fact that no other student group had ever been required to ask for school board approval in this particular district. No one living in that particular apartment is homosexual, but that seems to be irrelevant.
Stupidity knows no bounds.
I could go on for a very long time with reports of all sorts of incidents. I could also mention the dram or two of progress made this year toward the protection of GLBT rights. However, the research is depressing the hell out of me, and, frankly, I m not confirming some of the stories I ve read because they re so grisly that I want them to be untrue. But you can see why I d be leaning toward the conclusion that we haven t learned altogether much. My eyes gravitated, like virgins to a comic-book convention, to the graffiti on the door.