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President of Boy Scouts to USA Today: Let in gay youth
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
7:16pm

USA Today published an op-ed by Wayne Perry, the President of the Boy Scouts of America, in which he urges the 1,400 voting members gathering in Dallas to vote to allow gay youth to be a part of Scouting.

08/03/11
The GLAAD Daily: Dollywood, Marriage Polling in New Jersey, and Anti-LGBT Attacks | 08/03/11

08/02/11
Story to Watch: School Administrators and Teachers of Lawrence King Give Testimony at Trial | 08/02/11

08/02/11
The GLAAD Daily: NY Marriage Update, Brandon McInerney, Suquamish Tribal Council and More | 08/02/11

08/01/11
The GLAAD Daily: Washington Post-ABC News Poll, Republican Presidential Candidates, LGBT Mormons and More | 08/01/11

08/01/11
Boston Group Kicks Off 4th Annual Pride Festival for LGBT Women of Color | 08/01/11

The Boston-based organization “Queer Women of Color and Friends

07/29/11
The GLAAD Daily: Proposition 8, Rick Perry, Uganda and Much More | 07/29/11

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07/29/11
Ifti Nasim: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of an Avant-Garde Gay Pakistani American Muslim Activist | 07/29/11

The world lost a true trailblazer last Friday when Ifti Nasim, poet, journalist and advocate, died of a heart attack

07/28/11
The GLAAD Daily: Joel Burns on MSNBC, Mass. Delegation & the Orioles Say "It Gets Better," and More | 07/28/11

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'Gravely distressed': Religion looms large over Boy Scouts decision on gays
02/04/13

Advocates on both sides of the issue have stepped up their campaigns ahead of the final decision: They’ve encouraged their backers to make their voices heard through a phone-in and email deluge, and Scout leaders ousted because they were gay will deliver petitions with more than one million signatures to Boy Scouts headquarters on Monday.

Local Scout leaders approve or accept possibility of gays in scouting
02/04/13

Kara Asmus, field director with the Boy Scouts, believes the rule barring gay members doesn’t enhance the organization’s ability to fulfill their mission because sexual orientation isn’t something the group deals with directly.

Change in Boy Scout policy could lead to some troops accepting gay scouts and leaders
02/04/13

A proposal that would allow local Boy Scout troops to decide whether to accept gay Scouts and leaders could mean that Scouting will one day reflect the pockets of acceptance and bulwarks of resistance to gay rights seen nationwide.

Country Club Congregational United Church of Christ of Kansas City welcomes gay Boy Scouts
02/04/13

About 20 years ago when Curtis Filer's son was 15, he quit the Boy Scouts knowing as a gay teen, he did not fit in. The reason he did not feel right? The Boy Scouts of America excludes gay men from being leaders, and gay youth from being members of its organization.

Letter: Local groups say Boy Scouts should change anti-gay policy
02/04/13

The Boy Scouts have long provided a safe, supportive environment for boys to develop both their self-esteem and leadership skills. An important element of that environment is the acceptance of and respect for the diversity of people in our communities. We celebrate the fact that our troop and the Minuteman Council continue this tradition and are in the vanguard of change for the Boy Scouts of America.

Church steps up opposition to ban against gays in Boy Scouts
02/04/13

A northwest suburban church is stepping up its opposition to a ban against gay members and leaders in the Boy Scouts of America as the organization meets this week to reconsider the longtime policy.

Kansas City church welcomes gay Boy Scouts
02/04/13

In recent years, the Boy Scouts of America has come under fire for its exclusion of gays as Boy Scouts and Scout leaders. Many companies that donated thousands of dollars the Boy Scouts organization began reducing their contributions, mounting pressure now on the organization to make changes.

Scouts poised to make important change
02/04/13

Civil rights are not won by all-or-nothing propositions. Just as the fight for marriage equality progressed slowly, one state at a time, we feel certain that once local Scout troops begin admitting gay and lesbian Scouts and leaders in progressive regions like New Hampshire's Seacoast and southern York County, the rest of the nation will surely follow because it is the just and right thing to do.

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