Queens, Kings and the Pawns That Throw Stones

[eggwards]

Interesting information not only about a Chicago high school that chose a Jock and a Cheerleader to be homecoming king and queen, but also about the guy who opposes them...well, at least one of them.

Channel 5 in Chicago covered the story of the high school that picked a gay boy (the cheerleader), and a lesbian (the jock) and interviews one of those family values creeps to act as a counter-balance to a story of acceptance. interesting how he doesn't have much to say about the lesbian, it's only the young gay boy that's pointed out.

Still, it's an interesting world, no?

Comments

[darke.livejournal.com]

and in other news....

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

One step forward, two steps back...

Thanks Debbie Downer. :-)

[darke.livejournal.com]

I actually think that story has more of a positive note towards the end. Notice the student who is being harrased and what he has to say about it. There will always be idjits like Fred Phelps, but they serve only to make the mainstream realize what our fight has been like all along.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're right, and it's good to see so many kids of the younger generation getting it. Not all of them, mind you, but I'm sure that upbringing has a lot to do with that. Schools are much more friendly and open for kids to come out now than they were in my day, but other kids are cruel, no mater who you are.

Still, there's hope.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Men who sleep with men are sick, women who sleep with women are going through a phase that can be fixed by a good man. The male chauvinism shires through in these groups.

[leiny.livejournal.com]

hehe, not that those freaks from the Illinois Family Institute, the ones I walked about the other day, had to come in and say something

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Yes, I just checked out that post. There's groups like that all over the place, and they are just a step away from being the new Klan. It's sad that the media feels that on stories like these that have to "balance" the report by giving into the opinions to such idiots like this where they could go and find better experts and spokespeople.

[leiny.livejournal.com]

you ever watch the daily show? hehe. It's pretty funny when Stewart just goes off on reports that do that. His bit on that law trying to stop us from adopting down in your state was just absolute brillance

[kjvbear.livejournal.com]

first of all, this is not a Chicago High School. Buffalo Grove IL is a north suburb a good 30 miles out of the Chicago city limits and the school board and city has nothing to do with Chicago at all.

That is actually what makes this surprising. The North Suburbs are supposedly known as being very conservitive, and Buffalo Grove itself has a large conservitive Jewish population who usually do not condone Homosexuality. As a matter of fact about 10 years ago, the Mayor of Palatine IL (the next town north of Buffalo Grove) made the mistake of saying there were no Gay people in Palatine.....LOL. When the census was taken in 2000, one of the questions on there was if you were in a Gay Relationship, and Palatine had the HIGHEST number of Gay Relationships in the North Suburbs.....thankfully that Mayor is no longer in office.

I am beginning to have some faith in our younger generation.....

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Thirty miles out would still be Chicago to me. Chicago-area if you must.

Yes, it's cool that school administrators are making schools a place where children can come out. They can't always control how other kids will treat them, but to have a faculty member there who's helpful and open on gay issues? Man, I wouldn't ever think that would happen. It's amazing.

Then there's groups like that "Family" organization who will try to run for the school board to try to stop that open situation. It's the older generation that doesn't get it, and is hoping to stop things - but perhaps it's too late.