NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union today launched a new version of its Get Busy, Get Equal online activist toolkit, www.aclu.org/getequal.  Get Busy, Get Equal now incorporates new technology to make it easier for LGBT people to work for change in their communities.  The website offers tools for ending gay and transgender discrimination, making schools safe, and winning recognition for LGBT relationships.   “Partly because of all the awful anti-marriage initiatives of the past few years, Americans are aware of and talking about LGBT issues more than they ever have before.  We need to take ...

Daphne Beasley, the Tennessee principal who kept a list of students who were romantically involved and exposed a gay couple to their parents and other students, was attacked for her actions by the American Civil Liberties Union. In a letter responding to the ACLU's attack, the Memphis School Board said that Beasley did nothing improper. Beasley's Hollis F. Price Middle School is on the campus of LeMoyne-Owen College and took action in response to a complaint from the college that some of her students "were involved in explicit sexual behavior in public view on the college campus," 365gay.com reported. ...

Detroit, Michigan — The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan blasted a Michigan Supreme ruling today, which upheld a lower court’s decision that Proposal 2, passed by Michigan voters in 2004, prohibits public employers from offering domestic partner benefits. The majority opinion was written by Justice Steven Markman,which was joined by four other justices with [...] ...

Memphis TN - Hillis F. Price Middle College High School. In September, 2207 Principal Daphne Beasley demanded a list of student “couples” from her faculty in an effort to curb PDA (public display of affection) within the school. The demand asking for the names of all couples “hetersexual and homo” came via the school’s intercom system. When the list was compiled, Principal Beasley published the list in her office for all to see who entered her office. Nicholas, a male student was among the names listed on the Principal’s list. He was listed along with another male, Andrew, as the two ...

Source: WMLT-TV ABC24 , AP via Tenneseean , NBC News via WCSH Memphis, TN - At Monday night's Memphis School Board meeting, a small but vocal group of parents and community members gathered in the back of the auditorium waiting to speak their minds about a high school principal who outed two gay students at her school. "I'm disgusted," Memphis parent Natasha Burnett told WMLT's Eyewitness News Everywhere . "I'm disgusted by it." A letter from the American Civil Liberties Union that was made public last week accuses staff at Hollis F. Price Middle College High...(read more) ...

The principal of Hollis F. Price Middle College High School in Memphis, TN, is being accused of outing a young gay couple at the school by putting their names on a list for everybody to see. The American Civil Liberties Union ((ACLU) says principal Daphne Beasley in September 2007 asked her staff to give her the names of students who were couples, heterosexual and homosexual, because she wanted to keep an eye on them to cut down on public displays of affection. Among the students on the list were two boys, Andrew and Nicholas, who had just started dating ...

Source: WPTY TV , ACLU press release MEMPHIS, TN -- A Memphis high school principal who "outed" two gay high school students in September 2007 violated the students' constitutional right to freedom of association, the American Civil Liberties Union charged today. The ACLU said Daphne Beasley, the principal of Hollis F. Price Middle College High School, publicly told teachers and staff over the school's intercom system that she wanted the names of all student couples, "hetero and homo," because she wanted to monitor them personally to prevent students from engaging in...(read more) ...

MEMPHIS – A public high school principal who posted the names of two boys on a list of students believed to be couples, revealing their relationship to their parents as well as other students and teachers, violated the students’ constitutional right to freedom of association, the American Civil Liberties Union charged today. In a letter [...] ...