Tag Archives: New York
NYC to Require Sex Ed in Public Schools
Tweet As the NY Times reports, starting in the upcoming school year, for the first time in nearly two decades, students in New York City’s public middle and high schools will be required to take sex education classes. Previously, NY had been one of 12 states that required H.I.V. education only. I love that some [...]
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Breaking: Gay marriage passes New York Senate hurdle
Tweet After many, many days of negotiations and close-calls for a vote, same-sex marriage finally passed the NY Senate tonight by a close margin of 33-29. The bill went straight from the Assembly to a floor vote, and was decided after a number of religious exemptions that were agreed upon by New York legislators. Now, [...]
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What We Missed
Tweet Fuck. North Carolina has become the third state to defund Planned Parenthood. New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan is up in arms about New York’s potential step towards marriage equality, crying Communism. Literally. Can the veil be a symbol of Islamic feminism? The Guardian has an interactive map feature on “the most dangerous” countries in [...]
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Jewish mothers lobby for right to nag all their kids about getting married
TweetEven the gay ones. This lovely ad from New Yorkers United for Marriage stars the Blumenthals, a New York couple who have one straight son, who is married, and one gay son, who is not legally allowed to get married. And the Blumenthals want to change this. Because Jewish mothers like to bug their kids [...]
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Quick hit: Poll finds most New Yorkers don’t want to overturn gay marriage law