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Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network

The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) was started in 1990 to help bring together gay, lesbian and straight people for the purpose of eradicating homophobia and hate-speech directed toward homosexuals. As of 2009, the... [more]

The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) was started in 1990 to help bring together gay, lesbian and straight people for the purpose of eradicating homophobia and hate-speech directed toward homosexuals. As of 2009, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network boasted more than 40 chapters nation-wide.

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If you pay attention to the political blogs, you may have heard about the ongoing controversy concerning Kevin Jennings, Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools at the U.S. Department of Education. Jennings, who co-founded the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), has been bombarded with accusations from the right-leaning [...]  
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We knew MassResistance, the anti-gay group founded by Brian Camenker, who believes same-sex marriage is to blame for worsening air quality, had a problem with GLSEN founder and safe schools czar Kevin Jennings. But Camenker is stopping his rampage there. He's now taking on Martha Coakley, the Massachusetts attorney general and U.S. Senate hopeful, because [...]  
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In the week after the Fistgate audiotapes were made public and the first articles on the incident had appeared in Massachusetts News, a defense of the fisting workshop appeared on a website called “Bridges Across the Divide.” The author, Cindy Beal, claims to have spoken directly with Margot Abels (consistently misspelled “Ables”), the DOE employee who led the teen “gay sex” workshop..... ....the instructors led the kids to “resources” at the...  
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[photo: Education Week]Here’s proof that Kevin Jennings was certainly aware that his organization, GLSEN, recommended porny books for teens.  He had recommended them himself in his 1994 high school reader Becoming Visible (published by porn publisher Alyson Books). On p. 278 in his Questions/Activities section for Chapter 17, he wrote: 15. Other resources for reading are Bennett Singer’s Growing Up Gay, Ann Heron’s One Teenager in Ten...  
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Who founded GLSEN – the “Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network” -- while teaching at an elite New England boarding school? Who was asked by an extremist sexual radical to join the Mass. “Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth” in 1992? Who dishonestly claimed that an epidemic of gay teen suicides required bringing homosexual issues into our schools – that it was all about student “safety” -- but later admitted his deceit? Who put his...  
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Kevin Jennings' GLSEN-Boston transports kids to "Fistgate II" in taxpayer-funded school bus in 2001. Jennings was a founding member of the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, and as co-chair of the education committee, he masterminded the DOE's "Safe Schools" program. He has had a long alliance with BAGLY, the Boston Alliance of Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Youth. BAGLY was prominently included and recommended in the founding...  
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In 2007, Kevin Jennings was still national Executive Director of GLSEN. His “mothership” chapter in Boston held its annual conference on March 31 that year.The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus were the featured performers - providing opportunities for youth to mingle with adult gay “mentors”. Workshops pushed transgenderism, elementary school gay fairy tales, middle school gay clubs, the fluidity of "sexual identities", and warnings about gay dating...  
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In a revealing letter written shortly before the [2001] conference, an official from the state’s Department of Education, Kim Westheimer, seemed disappointed about GLSEN’s new policy barring explicit sex instruction. In the March 20, 2001 letter, Westheimer, who works for the DOE’s “Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students” wrote, “[U]p until the last minute it looked like GLSEN wasn’t going to have a conference at all.  
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Barack Obama's "safe schools czar" is coming under renewed attack. Fox News has picked up on reports that Kevin Jennings, founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), has been surrounded by controversy concerning his organization as GLSEN has been accused of visiting middle and high schools where spokespersons engage in explicit sexual discussions with students. In conjunction with the controversial talks, it has been...  
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The Gateway Pundit blog falsely suggested that the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, a group founded and formerly headed by Department of Education official Kevin Jennings, had distributed to children an explicit safe-sex booklet. In fact, a community health group -- not GLSEN itself -- reportedly said that it had mistakenly "left about 10 copies" of the booklet on an informational table it rented at a 2005 GLSEN conference...  
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In a December 11 editorial, The Washington Times continued its relentless anti-gay campaign against Department of Education official Kevin Jennings by advancing several previously debunked claims, including the false claim -- which was pushed by the hate group MassResistance -- that the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a group founded and formerly headed by Jennings, "allowed" an explicit safe-sex brochure that...  
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Think Before You Speak is the "let's not say nasty anti-gay things" campaign started by the Advertising Council and GLSEN, the organization started by radical homosexual activist Kevin Jennings, who is in hiding as Barack Obama's safe school czar. (Also in hiding: MassResistance, which is being fingered for spearheading attacks on Jennings in the media.) [...]  
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    The disgusting, vile and perverse actions of Obama's Safe and Drug Free School Czar Kevin Jennings is unbelievable.   Kevin Jennings' GLSEN Passed Out Gay Hook-Up Bar Directories to Teensmassresistance.net ^ | 12/09/2009 | n/a Posted on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 2:01:16 PM by massmikeClearly, Kevin Jennings' GLSEN did/does not follow policies that safeguard children. There seems to be a pattern here. At GLSEN conferences in Atlanta...  
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Yesterday, I printed a list of sponsor companies and foundations that fund GLSEN, the radical gay rights group founded by Obama safe schools czar Kevin Jennings. [...] Read the rest »Dave Lucas (subscribe) : Around The Blogosphere 09 December 09 ...Founding Bloggers (subscribe) : Fistgate Update: Kodak Is Wrong – GLSEN Is Not Just An “Educational Not-For-Profit” (VIDEO) ...blogs : Michelle Malkin, Dave Lucas, Founding Bloggers, The Other...  
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As far as I'm concerned, there is nothing objectionable about the stated mission of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) founded by Obama safe schools czar Kevin Jennings: The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education ...  
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