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NJ: Gay buss blacked out of HS yearbook

by: Pam Spaulding

Sat Jun 23, 2007 at 20:00:00 PM EDT


"I don't understand. There is no rule about no gay pictures, no guys kissing. Guys and girls kissing made it in."
-- East Side High School student Andre Jackson, whose photo of a kiss with his boyfriend David Escobales had a black marker taken to it in every copy of the yearbook.

"This action by the school district will have an unspeakably vile chilling effect on other gay and lesbian students coming out. Her trying to erase a student and his boyfriend is a metaphor of her trying to erase the gay and lesbian community out of Newark and its school system. It's wrong and it's ridiculous."
-- Garden State Equality chair Steven Goldstein on the actions of the superintendent. The organization has had more than 300 phone calls from outraged members of the gay community over the flap.

In the Garden State it is illegal to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, but the Newark, NJ school superintendent felt it necessary to protect the "sensitivities" of parents. (NJ.com):
Newark Superintendent of Schools Marion Bolden called the photograph "illicit" and ordered it blacked out of the $85 yearbook before it was distributed to students at a banquet for graduating seniors Thursday.

"It looked provocative," she said. "If it was either heterosexual or gay, it should have been blacked out. It's how they posed for the picture."

Russell Garris, the assistant superintendent who oversees the city's high schools, brought the photograph to Bolden's attention Thursday afternoon. He was concerned the picture would be controversial and upsetting to parents, Bolden said.

There are several photos of heterosexual couples kissing in the yearbook, but the superintendent said she didn't review the entire yearbook and was presented only with Jackson's page.

You can take action here.

Hat tip, TJ Helmstetter.

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So angry!
Thanks for having the link to "take action." I had to do something with the anger...

Blood Boiling,
  Best way to describe my feeling when I first read this.  I hope that Marion Bolden is fired and fined.  I thank you for providing the link for taking action.  I sent this out to others on my mailing list. 

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

When I taught school, kissing was forbidden
during the school day. We were instructed to send kids to the office if we saw them kissing.

How about NO kissing photos in the yearbook. These things are solved so easily.


Thanks for the link Pam
I told them what I think of their decision :)

Obliterate homophobia instead
I smell a winning lawsuit. 

La, la, la la...Law Suit!!
The superintendent is obviously a homophobe, clear and simple demonstrated by the knee-jerk reaction of a decisions to black out the picture in all of the yearbooks. Hope she loses her job as the self chosen voice of morality for the school district.

"Yeah. Sylvia-Louise. You know, with a hyphen?" - Barbara Streisand in What's Up Doc?

[ Parent ]
"Marion" is the spelling of the male version of the name...
..."Marian" is the spelling of the female version.  John Wayne's real name was Marion Morrison.

That said, the school district should be required--at a minimum--to distribute glossy 8-by-10 prints of the picture to each purchaser of the yearbook.  As far as I can tell, NJ's anti-discrimination statute includes sexual orientation.


[ Parent ]
All you got to do now: Express Yourself
Anger, Outrage, Hurt and a need to fight back.

Contact the superintendent, Marion A. Bolden, Newark Public Schools, 2 Cedar Street, Newark, NJ 07102 and contact the Newark Schools (npswebmaster@nps.epals.com); Write to the Star Ledger, who covered this issue and voice opposition to this censorship and homophobia at 1 Star-Ledger Plaza, Newark, NY 07102  1-888-782-7533; Add your voice to Garden State Equality's action page through the link on this site; and check if Fight Out Loud lists this as their action page allows more individual expression then Garden State Equality (although in my anger, I might have missed the opportunity on that page to add my personal thoughts to the letter they asked people to sign.) It might be nice if we Andre Jackson got messages of support, if anyone knows how to contact him.


kissing photo
I posted two images no more provacotive, two men kissing shown from their chests up, wearing leather vests, and another photo of three men shirtless with a comradery arm around the two flanking men, and it got me banned at Huffington Post from the story concerning Elizabeth Edwards at SF Pride.It had followed some supposedly ex-gay post saying, "how filthy and discusting being gay is," I captioned the picture of the KISS, "all the more men for me."

Thank God for LGBT sites, regardless of how progressive a site might appear, there are two kinds of straights,.... those that hate you to your face, and those that hate you behind your back.
I went back to gay.com and the HIV+ chat rooms,after being gone from there for several years. I live my real life as a gay seperatist, only on line have I dealt with many straights...turns out I wasn't missing MUCH.


Wow
Underbear, I'm really sorry to hear that.  You (along with Minneapolis Mike, of course) are my two favorite posters on HuffPo.  I hope you contest the banning and point their bigotry out to them. 

Someone shoulkd try posting an equivalent straight picture to see if it gets banned, and then publish an expose if it doesn't.


[ Parent ]
I'm truly sorry
you feel that way.

I can understand why you might, but there are straights who don't hate you either behind your back or not. I hope you can believe that someday.

The past is not a shadow theatre. What rules there is not the ephemeral, but the irreversible. --Gen-Col Dmitri Antonovich Volkogonov


[ Parent ]
UGH.
So infuriating.

I'm spreading this across Buzznet right now. This needs to get out.


here are the photos which banned me at Huffington Post
it's three shirtless men, Abercrombie and Fitch catalogs or Calvin Klien ads are much more provacative, and are on billboards in every city.
  http://www.carlos-mo...

  http://www.gaypornbl...

all though the address says gaypornblog nothing is obscene in this photo


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