
The latest incarnation of Tennessee’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill has now died in the state’s House Education Subcommittee, and good riddance.

The latest incarnation of Tennessee’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill has now died in the state’s House Education Subcommittee, and good riddance.

Teachers and counselors will have to decide if the behavior in question – the assumption being if it shows some element of being LGBT – is ‘injurious…to another person.’

14-year-old Caiden Cowger does seem to be old enough to know what his well-spoken words mean. His belief is that sexuality is as fragile as resistance to peer pressure.

Sunday, February 12, 2012, 12-year-old Payton Ruth Anne Richardson ended her young life. Her friends say, for sure, that it was due to bullying. The school superintendent says “there was no indication of bullying”.

When people in uniform tell teens that it’s okay to be different, they mean it. OutServe.org, an organization of LGBT military personnel released a video showing teens that it truly does get better and they should know.