Bully for Him
It is probably largely due to both the verbal and physical abuse I suffered as an elementary and high school student in the Catholic school system many years ago that…
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Bully Away The Gay is A-OK, According To Religious Wingnuts
Religious zealots like the Charles McVetys of this world are getting more certifiable by the day as they pervert religion further. Well, now some of these zealots have really outdone…
The Religious Bullies Go After Gay Kids
Don’t you just love crazy religion? They are always attacking each other, claiming that only their god is the real one. Spewing gibberish and hate out of every orifice, or…
Monday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your day. – Toby Sanger posts about the OECD’s findings on inequality in Canada, with this particularly jumping out as to how much less progressive our…
If You Want to Know What Bullying Feels Like…
You can read this story. What world is this that playgrounds have become killing grounds? The murder of hope, love, creativity, passion, ingenuity, individually. This goes unpunished. Unnoticed. Why? When…
Has the War on Bullying Finally Begun?
It’s taken a lot of dead Canadian kids. Kids like Marjorie Raymond. “I have a hard time leaving this world,” she wrote her suicide letter, “but I think it will…
Lady Gaga’s Message to a Canadian School
In a country where bullying is an epidemic, and almost nothing is being done to stop it, isn’t it great to know that at least Lady Gaga cares. Too bad…
Banned On The Hill: Franke James Takes Her Art To Ottawa
We’ve met Franke James, a Canadian visual artist, on 350orbust before. I discuss the Harper government’s interference with a big career opportunity for her, a European art tour, in these…
Bully Awareness Week and the Dead Kids
It’s Bully Awareness Week, and for kids in Canada it couldn’t have come at a better time. After a horrifying streak of bullying related suicides. Mitchell Wilson, bullied to death…
Video: Occupy Wall Street security guard calls gay veteran a "faggot"
In the aftermath of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s order to remove all Occupy Wall Street protestors and their belongings from Zuccotti Park early Tuesday morning, gay videographer and…
Québec Commits $7M To Fight Homophobic Bullying
How about I share some encouraging news for a change? The Québec government has officially launched their Lutte contre l’homophobie, a five-year program to combat homophobic bullying and discrimination. The…
“Moral convictions”, Republicans and bullying
You gotta love Republicans. In Michigan, the Republican-heavy Senate has passed a new anti-bullying bill that promotes bullying by giving perpetrators the ‘moral conviction’ right to bully on behalf of…
Kids in the Hall’s Scott Thompson gets it right, sort of…
In an interview for Pridesource.com, Canadian comedian Scott Thompson of Kids in the Hall fame challenged the notion of life getting better for gay teens when they enter adulthood, i.e.…
When Babies Help Fight Bullying
As you know, I don't think we're doing enough to fight bullying in Canada. Even though it's terrorizing children, and corrupting our culture, from sports to politics.And I wish there…
Video: Agreed, Rick Mercer, gay public figures need to step forward
Otherwise, don't become a public figure if you don't want the public to know who you really are.And for those of you who read the editorial from Friday's The Globe…
Have You Ever Seen a Gay Kid Being Attacked?
Just for being gay. Oh well. Now you can...Wasn't that brutal? And isn't this horrible?The teenager’s mother adds that no one did anything — everyone stood around and watched. Only one person…
Canada and the Bully Nation
I don't know why Canada is such a bully nation. What I do know is that it infects our country like syphilis, from our Parliament, to our hockey rinks, to…
Selley On The Tory’s Anti-Gay Bullying Vid: The Short Version
If you see an pig that is trying to dance, don't criticize it for dancing poorly. The attempt should be enough.And there's something to that.But, again, if this had been…
Jamie Hubley, the Cons, and the Cycle of Hate
It's been about a week since Jamie Hubley killed himself. And although for a while I was so sad I could hardly write about this tragedy, now I'm feeling better.Because…
Laughable Canadian Conservatives It Gets Better video
The ruling Canadian Conservative government managed to turn the It Gets Better project into a meaningless, insincere folly last Thursday when they released their own version of the campaign in…