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Ft. Wayne GI Protection Bill Proposed

Submitted by John Clower on February 14, 2010 - 4:25pm.

From: Indiana Equality (3/5/10)
On March 9th, Fort Wayne City Councilor Karen Goldner will
introduce an ordinance to add 'Gender Identity/Expression' to
the local human rights ordinance as one of its protected
classes. Opposition from the American Family Association of
Indiana and the Indiana Family Institute, providing false and
distorted information about transgender people played a major
factor in delaying her efforts.

The Fort Wayne City Council needs to know that:
You support this proposal that will help ensure that Transgender

Bloomington Beacon Services Survey

Submitted by beacon on October 1, 2009 - 8:03pm.

The Bloomington Beacon is committed to providing the GLBTQ Community with quality services. This is why we need your help! Please take a moment to look over this survey and rank how important providing this service would be to you. All survey results will be for internal use only and will be handled as confidential. Thank you for your time and valuable input.

Alleged Sexual Battery at Carmel Clay H.S.

Submitted by John Clower on March 9, 2010 - 10:07am.

CARMEL, Ind. -- Carmel Clay Schools officials on Monday outlined steps to prevent hazing and bullying incidents like the alleged assaults involving the Carmel High School basketball team....

For entire article: http://www.indystar.com/article/20100309/LOCAL0101/3090334/Carmel-Clay-u...

Kinsey Finds No Consensus in Definition of "Sex"

Submitted by John Clower on March 4, 2010 - 9:45am.

March 4, 2010

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- When people say they "had sex," what transpired is anyone's guess. A new study from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University found that no uniform consensus existed when a representative sample of 18- to 96-year-olds was asked what the term meant to them....

http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/13675.html

Indy Pride Seeks Volunteer Coordinator

Submitted by John Clower on March 3, 2010 - 3:17pm.

Indy Pride is seeking a highly organized individual who would be interested in being the volunteer coordinator for this year’s Pride week of events. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Gary Brackett at cadillacbarbieindy@yahoo.com.

Marriage Discrimination Amendment Dies in the Indiana House

Submitted by John Clower on February 24, 2010 - 1:38pm.

Marriage Discrimination Amendment Dies in State Legislature
Your Support Made the Difference! Thank You!

Senate Joint Resolution 13, the Marriage Discrimination
Amendment, has died in the Indiana State House.

Due in large part to your support and actions, the proposal to
amend Indiana?s state constitution was stopped when the Indiana
House of Representatives did not conduct a hearing on this
discriminatory proposal. Friends of fairness and equality
generated nearly 15,000 e-mails and letters to State Legislators
urging them to reject SJR-13.

AIDS Transformed IU-Kenyan Project

Submitted by John Clower on February 21, 2010 - 11:22am.

When four Indiana University School of Medicine doctors forged a relationship with a fledgling medical school in western Kenya 20 years ago, helping to combat AIDS was not in the plan.

The American doctors' goals were to help the Kenyans develop the medical school while providing an international health opportunity for IU medical students.

But AIDS changed everything -- including the IU-Kenya Partnership....

For entire article: http://www.indystar.com/article/20100221/NEWS/2210381/AIDS-transformed-I...

IU Grad Awarded John Money Fellowship

Submitted by John Clower on February 20, 2010 - 3:26pm.

Indiana University student Bradley Lane has been awarded the John Money Fellowship to develop his dissertation project, A Visual Politics of the Perverse: Sexual Predation and the ‘Perversion’ of American Visual Culture. Set to be the first dissertation offered in the field of Gender Studies in the nation, this project concerns the visual representation of sexual perversion in the twentieth-century United States, particularly through the figure of the sexual predator.

New Video Offerings from the Kinsey Institute

Submitted by John Clower on February 18, 2010 - 6:41pm.

Want something different to watch tonight?

How about one of the new videos you can find on The Kinsey Institute website!

Besides the ‘Vintage sex toys’ demonstration from our current art exhibit Private Eyes: Amateur Art from the Kinsey Institute Collections, produced by Erin Robinson,

we have a wonderful Evening with Paul Gebhard and Elizabeth Mooney,* (41min) - a fun conversation featuring original Kinsey researcher Dr. Gebhard, recorded just after the Kinsey film came out;

Traveling Exhibit on Nazi Persecution of Gays Comes to Bloomington

Submitted by John Clower on February 18, 2010 - 10:15am.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- "Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals, 1933-1945," a traveling art exhibit from The National Holocaust Museum, will be on display throughout the Indiana Memorial Union at Indiana University, Friday (Feb. 19) through April 25....

For entire news release: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/13432.html

Related "Indiana Daily Student" stories: http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=73977
http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=73880

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