Democrats Who Swept Moms For Liberty Off PA School Board Battle Superintendent’s $700K Severance Deal

I already posted the article on this, but the comments on Joe My God are so good I have to do a second post on haters trying to screw over both voters and LGBTQIA kids.   Hugs.   Scottie


 

Christian looters stealing themselves more public funds just to hurt LGBT kids and fund more imposition of ignorance at public expense to destroy education itself.

Converting public funds into private wealth is the core purpose of the GOP. Money laundering for their gain with your money.

Yeah, it’s a major focus for Gov. Wheels here in Texas.

He wants to provide public funds to people who put their kids in private schools!

Christians stealing for themselves is the goal. Hurting LBGT kids is just a side benefit.

Here’s some good news:

 

“Whatever money he did get is gone,” says Kyle Rittenhouse’s lawyer

 

He’s broke. Sad, right? Right?

https://boingboing.net/2023…

He had his 15 minutes…. No he has to live with the fact that he murdered people.

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I’m pretty sure he doesn’t give a shit

 

Yeah he is pretty much a heartless scumbag. He was caught on video bragging about the killings at a bar with his Proud Boy buddies, but at the trial he was fake crying about it. I despise him and hope he rots in hell.

He is not going away, unfortunately.

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I suspect that any money he gets from now on will be spent as fast as it comes in. Kids like that don’t know how to manage their finances, as his lawyer seems to realize.
He’s not that bright, obviously has not much interest in his “studies” but thinks he is the bomb with billionaires.
The political grift is all he has in his future. Eventually, he’ll get a job at the Tony’s shop, hawking “Christian for guns.” And he’ll have to live on the measly pay he gets from that.

 

 

Well, who didn’t see this coming?
The incel weeble was allegedly planning on attending college to study nursing (as part of a testament of his character during his trial), and then never did. Then Mr Crying Game-2 claimed to be enrolled and accepted at a rather prestigious college…only to have that college deny that claim. Lil’ Bloat Boy preferred to hang & drink with white supremacist/Nazi/incel groups, found/hired a TikTok gf, was going to just splurge during his 15 minutes of fame letting other people use this doofus for their own political points before discarding the loser.

And now he’s claiming to be destitute again, and none the wiser. Please send cash. 🙄

Frankly, I’m surprised he hasn’t drunk or drugged himself to death yet.

Too bad; so sad. He may actually have to work for a living, after all. I wouldn’t want to have anything to do with any company that would hire Kyle Rittenhouse, though.

Poor Kyle, time to hit the streets. Remember buddy, it’s $20, same as downtown.

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So, he goes to onlyfans. Charges $50 a month for some shirtless pictures. Some crazed MAGAs will support him for being a patriot. He is a scammer and grifter. He knows nothing else. May many engagements with law enforcement and corrections be in his future.

He is in Texas and is being positioned by old right wing money men to run for office as soon as he is of age.

He has a ghostwritten book coming out as money laundering and is being positioned as a future politician for Texas.

If the little cunt ever ‘wins’ an election, he will soon be Madison Cawthorn II. Charmless fat white Nazi sociopaths aren’t going to play with a demographic rapidly changing to favor minorities and zoomers.


Yeah, it’s all about the students isn’t it Moms?

SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS as a severance package for a school superintendent? Seriously? That is beyond nuts, and ought to be illegal. I hope the sane members of the community fight it and win.

It’s a payoff, a dirty one.

A correction... “The exit deal for superintendent Abram Lucabaugh [photo below] was approved the night before the election” The board meeting doing this was a week AFTER the election on November 14. confirming, I live in the district.

So after the election, but before the new elected school board members took their seats?

That was a dick move.

That’s pretty much all the male-led Moms for Liberty has. I’m glad at least that the good folks in Central Bucks voted them out.

That’s pretty much all the male-led Moms for Liberty has. I’m glad at least that the good folks in Central Bucks voted them out.

Fascists cannot be fascists without corruption

Moms for Liberty = Nazi Ladies Auxiliary.

Real estate taxes (aka school taxes) are crazy high in PA, or at least that’s what you hear all the time, I can’t wait till the taxpayers get a load of this. I hope that guy has protection…there are a lot of guns in PA.

That’s 700k they wanted to suck out of the school district, basically cutting funds. Its the MO of every one of these reich wing groups. Vulture capitalism. They infiltrate (financed by billionaires), mortally wound the department, then sell it off to be privatized.
Its what the voucher shit is all about. Govt funneling money directly to some mega donor billionaire. Also see private prisons

I just texted a friend in Berks county (next door to Bucks), he said that the guy had given himself a raise last year. Yeah…nice guy.

While I was look for coverage in the Reading, PA newspaper, found this bit about “Election code violations being turned over to the AG”:

 

Kauffman said an email was sent on Election Day from a voter explaining that he and his wife had voted by mail for the first time this election. The voter said that on Election Day they “wanted to test the system,” so his wife attempted to vote in person at their Bern Township precinct.

At some point during that visit, the woman announced her intent and told a poll worker that she had already voted by mail. In the email, the voter said that his wife got to the voting booth before alerting the poll worker.

The woman ultimately did not cast a second ballot, Kauffman said.

Kauffman did not identify the voter or her husband.

 

Besides being an idiot, who can guess what party they belong to…after watching Fox News concerning all the “election fraud”.

Con-sevative hookers taking care of their pimp
Street corner or “school” board..

And… They say they’re only in it for the children’s sake. Yeah, right. Sure. You betcha.

Conservatives have zero problem wasting public funds on their personal agendas.

That school district will be out over $2 million because of rightwing fuckery.

And who will be hurt the most? The kids. But repubs are anti-education these days anyway, so that’s a positive thing to them.

Put the $700K in a book for the Assholes With Casseroles to burn.

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Democrats who swept Moms For Liberty off school board fight superintendent’s $700,000 exit deal

https://apnews.com/article/moms-for-liberty-pennsylvania-superintendent-fdd5dcecd0c8649bc73c09c76c769f17

The haters seen the writing on the wall and wanted to give a lot of money to one of them that helped them foment hate and harm to the LGBTQIA kids in schools.  Because protecting kids was never the goal, doing the best for schools was never the goal.  It has always been to promote and enforce their religious fundamentalist right wing views on students.  And they will be back, that was the point of such a huge payout.   To make others see the profit in harming the LGBTQIA kids.   Hugs.   Scottie


This image taken from video shows Superintendent Abram Lucabaugh and Board President Dana Hunter preside over a Central Bucks School District meeting in Doylestown Pa., Nov. 15, 2022. Democrats who swept out a Moms for Liberty majority on the board are challenging Lucabaugh's last-minute $700,000 exit package. (AP Photo)

This image taken from video shows Superintendent Abram Lucabaugh and Board President Dana Hunter preside over a Central Bucks School District meeting in Doylestown Pa., Nov. 15, 2022. Democrats who swept out a Moms for Liberty majority on the board are challenging Lucabaugh’s last-minute $700,000 exit package. (AP Photo)

Updated 12:26 PM EST, November 22, 2023
 

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Pennsylvania school board that banned books, Pride flags and transgender athletes slipped a last-minute item into their final meeting before leaving office, hastily awarding a $700,000 exit package to the superintendent who supported their agenda.

But the Democratic majority that swept the conservative Moms For Liberty slate out of office hopes to block the unusual — they say illegal — payout and bring calm to the Central Bucks School District, whose affluent suburbs and bucolic farms near Philadelphia have been roiled by infighting since the 2020 pandemic.

“People are really sick of the embarrassing meetings, the vitriol, they’re tired of our district being in the news for all the wrong reasons. And … the students are aware of what’s been going on, particularly our LGBTQ students and their friends and allies,” said Karen Smith, a Democrat who won a third term on the board.

The district, with about 17,000 students in 23 schools, has spent $1.5 million on legal and public relations fees amid competing lawsuits, discrimination complaints and investigations in the past two years, including a pending suit over its suspension of a middle school teacher who supported LGBTQ and other marginalized students.

The jostling — and spending — look likely to continue as Democrats who won a 6-3 majority in the Nov. 7 election prepare to challenge the severance package for superintendent Abram Lucabaugh, which was added to the Nov. 14 agenda only the night before.

Meanwhile, several voters in the quaint town of Chalfont filed a court petition Monday challenging the school board election tallies, alleging unspecified “fraud or error.”

Student Lily Freeman, a vocal critic of board policies on LGBTQ issues, decried the district’s spending priorities. She called the severance package a bad deal for both students and taxpayers.

“It’s kind of like a slap in the face,” said the senior at Central Bucks East High School. “Teachers are struggling, and there’s a lot of students that are struggling.”

“There are so many resources out there that we could be putting that money to,” she said, noting her school desperately needs better WiFi.

Neither Lucabaugh, who skipped the final meeting, nor outgoing board president Dana Hunter returned calls for comment. School board solicitor Jeffrey P. Garton said he was not involved in the severance agreement.

“I didn’t prepare it and gave no legal advice concerning its content,” Garton said in an email.

Some of the incoming Democrats tried to warn the outgoing board that the payout violates a 2012 state law designed to curtail golden parachutes bestowed on school superintendents, including one that topped $900,000. The law now caps severance pay at a year’s salary, along with limited payments for unused sick time and other benefits.

“The particular circumstances in this case are even more egregious. The board gave Dr. Lucabaugh a 40 percent salary increase (to $315,000) in late July of this year, making him the second-highest paid school district superintendent in Pennsylvania, and is now using that increase less than four months later to calculate a severance payment,” lawyer Brendan Flynn, who represents them, wrote in a letter distributed to the board before the vote.

Lucabaugh’s package includes more than $300,000 for unused sick, vacation, administrative and personal time during his 18 years in various roles with the district; $50,000 for signing the deal; and health insurance for his family through June.

The package also includes a puzzling ban on any district investigations of his tenure and an agreement that he can keep his district-issued laptop as long as he wipes it of school records.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Savage nixed that last provision on Friday when he ordered Lucabaugh, a defendant in middle school teacher Andrew Burgess’s retaliation suit against the district, to preserve documents that may become evidence in the case.

“It’s hard to imagine a lawyer drafted that contract,” said Witold “Vic” Walczak, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, who represents Burgess. “No lawyer would think that a school board could insulate an employee from any kind of of court action or criminal investigation.”

Freeman, the high school senior, declined to revisit the threats and sense of danger she said she and her family have endured as she took on the board the past two years. However, her forceful public remarks at last week’s meeting, posted to TikTok, have drawn thousands of views and comments.

“It was never about protecting kids. It was about erasing people like me from Central Bucks,” she told the board last week as it voted to make students play on sports teams based on their gender assignment at birth. “You continue to make policy after policy preventing people like me from just living our lives.”

On Monday, Freeman said she’s hopeful the tensions will ease under the new board: “I feel as if we shouldn’t have to worry about a lot of these things if our needs are being met.”

Dale covers national legal issues for The Associated Press, often focusing on the federal judiciary, gender law, #MeToo and NFL player concussions. Her work unsealing Bill Cosby’s testimony in a decade-old deposition led to his arrest and sexual assault trials.

Lead ‘Scream’ Actress Fired For Defending Palestinians And Agreeing With The UN

The lead actress in the next ‘Scream’ movie, Melissa Barrera, has been fired from that role over her recent comments on social media.

Israel And Hamas Verging On Major Deal

While it won’t end the larger conflict, a major hostage exchange is on the brink of being approved.

This video details how many Palestinian children are being held in Israeli military prisons with no charges, it shows clearly how much of an open air prison every Palestinian lives under in the current situation.   The abuses of the Palestinians is beyond belief now.   Hugs.   Scottie

Owen Jones OWNS Piers Morgan on his DOWNPLAYING of Israel’s onslaught

Wow, between Lance and Morgans guest, they rip open the lies of the Israeli government and the media that supports them.  If you want the truth of what is happening, then watch this no matter who hard it is.   Hugs.  Scottie-+

They showed up again so I felt you needed to suffer with them as I did. 😋😛😀😎

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He is in astounding condition. I accept Apple Pay.

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Florida Bill Would Expand “Don’t Say Gay” To State Workplaces, Ban LGBTQ Nonprofits From State Grants

While I don’t think this will go anywhere soon, this is more than grand standing for attention.  He is a true believer in removing those non-cis non-straight people from society.  He believes in making the US a Christian theocracy.  Again remember how this started, both here and in Russia.  Save the little kids, you know babies to 3rd grade which in the US is normally until kids would be 9 years old going into 4th grade.  Don’t confuse kids who were not confused at all by gender or that there were LGBTQIA people, they were not confused by gay people who loved each other.  They made the law so vague teachers had to hide being gay and their families, and remove rainbow stickers along with anti-bullying posters.  Then it worked, people bought it so they moved it to up to grade 12 because we wouldn’t want to confuse 18 year olds about gender or sexual orientation, would we?   After all, young adults don’t need to see or hear that stuff in the brave new world of only straight cis people with strict gender rules of the 1950s and forced Christian bible slogans in every classroom.  Do they, after all no mention of the gays or trans equals no gays or trans people right?   Oh shit, they still exist in work places, adults have to be exposed to that confusion as well.  Oh shit, we should not confuse adults about sexual orientation or gender just like we don’t want to confuse kids were not confused, especially little kids who openly accepted their peers once until adults told them that it was wrong to accept people who were different.   So let’s do what we did with companies that encouraged diversity which really is just mixing the races, letting black / brown people have equal work / schooling opportunities.   We will make it illegal!  Nope, no LGBTQIA and no diversity allowed in private or state businesses.  There now we have a nice white straight cis state with nice white straight cis businesses and majority white straight cis schools.   Oops, forgot one detail.  Got to keep forcing that good old Jesus on everyone.  So now not just schools will have to display in god we trust and the then commandments, stores, business, state agencies, everywhere will.   And we will have a local church tax for every district to support the Christian churches only.   The rest you can donate if you want on your own time, Christianity is the state religion now in Florida, and soon other red states.

This is the world these people want, that they are driven to create for their god.  Right or wrong they really believe the lies they were told about the US being founded as a special place for Christians and only Christians, that god will be angry until it is “again” a Christian nation that follows the “bible” way of life?  I guess that means slaves and the right of a man to fuck everything while owning his wives, concubines … whatever.   Sorry but they won’t accept half measures as you see, they take that offering of meeting half way and then demand the rest.   For those that say the fight for trans stuff is too much, just give them that, do you see how wrong you are now?  They took it, ran with it, then went after the rest of the people who are different.  They simply do not want to live in a world with others not like them in it.  Period.  If you want to live in the modern age with acceptance and tolerance for all, we must defeat these people.    Hugs.   Scottie


The Washington Blade reports:

A new bill just introduced in Florida aims to expand “Don’t Say Gay Or Trans” provisions to a broad range of workplaces. Targeting government employees, contractors, and nonprofits, the bill sets forth restrictions and bans on policies relating to pronouns, gender identity, and sexuality.

Specifically, it would prohibit state and local government employees as well as any contractors engaged with the government from changing their pronouns or honorifics if they do not match their assigned sex at birth.

It would also bar them from instructing on gender identity or sexuality, similar to “Don’t Say Gay Or Trans” laws already active in the state education system. The legislation would establish “biological” pronouns as official state policy.

Florida Politics reports:

What raised the loudest alarms among critics was a provision that appears to restrict any organization specifically serving LGBTQ individuals from receiving any state dollars. “It is an unlawful employment practice for a nonprofit organization or an employer who receives funding from the state to require, as a condition of employment, any training, instruction, or other activity on sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression,” the bill reads.

The legislation is the second bill filed by Rep. Ryan Chamberlin, who was elected to the House in a Special Election in May. The House District 24 seat notably opened after former state Rep. Joe Harding, an Ocala Republican, resigned facing federal charges of wire fraud and money laundering. Harding authored a parental rights in education bill passed in 2022, the bill originally derided as the “don’t say gay bill.”

Chamberlin belongs to a Pentecostal church and launched a failed bid for the US House in 2020, finishing sixth in the GOP primary. His predecessor, Joe “Don’t Say Gay” Harding, is expected to begin on five month federal prison sentence on COVID fraud charges in January.

 

 

They hate us.
They really, really hate us.

In March 1997, he filed King’s Chamberlin Ministries, Inc., which was dissolved in September 2001 for failure to file an annual report. He didn’t recall the business but thought it was related to his brother who lives in Israel.

In October 1997, he filed Ryan Marketing Group, Inc., which was administratively dissolved for failure to file an annual report in September 1999.

In February of 1998, he filed a corporation called Professional Credit Services Acceptance Corporation, Inc. that was administratively dissolved for failure to file an annual report in September 1999.

In January 1999, he filed Freedom Investments, Inc. that was dissolved in October 2002 for failure to file an annual report.

In September 1999, he filed Freedom Team, Inc. which was administratively dissolved in September 2011.

In May 2010, he started a company called Prosperity Team Leaders, LLC, which was dissolved in September 2011 for failure to file an annual report.

In April 2011, he started a company called Empowered Companies, LLC, which was dissolved in September 2012 for failure to file an annual report.

In March 2013, he was on the board of EJ Kids, Inc. in Hollywood, Florida. That company administratively dissolved the following year for failure to file an annual report.

In February 2015, there was The Kids Movement, Inc., also created in Hollywood. That company was voluntarily dissolved in March 2019.

In January 2010, he started RJ Chamberlin, LLC, which he said he continues to operate for the consulting/training work he does for companies.

In April 2011, he started a company called Empowered Companies, LLC, which was dissolved in September 2012 for failure to file an annual report.

It seems as if fraud is either endemic to Florida or understood to be the traditional way to do things.

You mean this wasn’t going to stop with schools?
Who would have thunk it?

FunFact: Mr. & Mrs. are honorifics not assigned at birth.

Mrs. is actually a change from Miss … So no women can ever acknowledge their marriage through title. Ms. or Miss for all women all the time.

So being mean is a “huge victory” in a state that has the highest inflation in the nation, uninsurable homes and can’t find teachers.

Yup, applaud the important stuff.

Not to mention, OB-GYN’s are fleeing in droves.

Faster even than insurance companies.

 

The only victories they try for are those that harm people they don’t like.

 

“It is an unlawful employment practice for a nonprofit organization or an employer who receives funding from the state to require, as a condition of employment, any training, instruction, or other activity on sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression”

 

Note: If they were even remotely principled, they would have to admit that this would require refusing funding for any group that teaches that marriage is a heterosexual monopoly.

I think a lot of Floridians (gay and otherwise) are trying to figure out the best ways to fight this insane government. Voting is important for sure. But we need more and stronger resistance, more challenges in court, more protests. This is not an easy fight. I think a lot of people are just complacent in their comfy lifestyles. They really need to think otherwise. Danger, danger Will Robinson!

I thought all this ‘don’t say gay’ shit was to ‘protect the children’. Yeah, we saw through that a long time ago…you are just now proving it.

Boiling frogs people, boiling frogs.

Well, it’s a GOP goal to reopen workhouses for the poor and lower the employment age to seven.

But children may be taken to a “workplace” so must be safe from those grooming LGBTQ+ people!!!

/s

The pogrom has begun, folks.

FLORIDA: We have zero solutions to your problems, so we’re going to attack gay kids and their families instead.

 

VA School Board Rejects Safe Space For LGBTQ Kids

No safe space, no quiet room to decompress for every kid who needs one, because a minority thinks some kids are evil and they might feel safe and welcome there.   WTF!   Seriously!  Adults need quiet places to decompress, and yet these old grandparent fucks think kids have it so easy they now all they need is Christ and the 10 commandments in school to be happy.   This wouldn’t have cost the district.  It was free money.  But again religious people have the self entitled idea that somehow they get the right to force their religious convictions on other people’s children.   I hate it, kids crying for safety, begging adults to help them.   But all they got from some was hate, anger, judgement, and disdain.   

I included a few more comments than I normally do because I want everyone to note how many people said hate, distrust, non-accptance and intolerance kept them in the closet, kept them denying who they were and stopping them from living openly as gay people.  It kept them from dating and having fullfilling relationship.  That is what the religous right wants to return to, the right to opress the LGBTQIA and keep them out of society.  That is the world they love, where only people like them are seen in public, and on social media.   

Last thing.  At the very end someone who was able to see the entire meeting (* I was not able to read the article as it required me to regester and log in. *) reported that the board did agree to the need for a safe space.  What they couldn’t accept was the money from “those people”  again because the goal is to keep anyone different from being able to show it.  To make sure the only accepted way to be is cis straight with strict gender roles from the 1950s.   So they do see the need, they just refused free money because queer people were donating it.  Again it makes it quite clear the goal they have.   And I say together we have to stop them.   Hugs.  Scottie


The Lynchburg News reports:

The Lynchburg City School Board has voted not to accept a $10,000 grant from an LGBTQ-focused nonprofit, a possible temperature gauge for the board’s upcoming consideration of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s model policies on the treatment of transgender students. At its meeting Tuesday, the board voted 7-2 against accepting the grant from the nonprofit It Gets Better Project, with board members Anthony Andrews and Sharon Carter the only votes in favor.

Students with the E.C. Glass High School Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) club applied for and were recently awarded a grant from the nonprofit to develop a safe-space or “quiet room” at the school, intended for all students’ use. One grandparent of a student spoke in opposition: “Let me be very clear, the LBGTQ agenda in schools is about indoctrination and grooming our children into an evil and wicked lifestyle, all while circumventing the rights and responsibilities of parents.”

Read the full article. In the screenshot seen above and in the cued-up video below, tearful students begged the school board in vain for the safe space.

 

 

 

A quiet room where students can read or do homework or just sit without being bullied. Imagine being against that. Now you understand the religious right. They want to be free to abuse anyone they want and when they are not allowed to do that they think they are being persecuted.

Very pro-children and pro-family of them.

Poor kids.

They’re neither pro children, nor pro family

They aren’t even pro fetus

 

That’s shitty.
When I taught in Texas, the LGBT+ “safe place” for students (and some faculty) was just known as my office.

Thank you from all those students.

Yep. My classroom, too.

Republicans want corpses, and they are perfectly fine if those corpses are their own children.

Guns and Hate are the toys of American evangelicals

Nothing like that style of Christian love…

And the corpses that aren’t dead are dead on the inside after being literally and figuratively beaten every day during their adolescence.

Just despicable.

It reminds me of when I was in college, and an LGBT group was created, only to face a backlash from a counter group preaching “Society needs a home!” Rumor had it that this counter group sent plants into the LGBT group to potentially publicly out those attending…basically what Laura Ingraham did in college.

That threat kept me in the closet for a few more years, until I was out on my own and 1000 miles from my family. It should never have to be like that!

I started hitting the clubs at around 16 (back then in 1980’s NOLA I was just one face in a sea of gays and got away with it!) but didn’t come out until 1989 when I got out of the Army. It really was just too much trouble to be a double agent all the time.
The idea of a “safe space” was unthinkable! Besides, I knew I was an ugly, twisted, perverted abomination that couldn’t be trusted around children.
It took decades to partially heal from all that garbage. The kids deserve better than that, but that’s the message they get when they are denied these spaces.
Oh, and I fucking HATE people like that Grandparent. I do not wish them well.

 

I ‘m sorry you had a moment when you viewed yourself as a “twisted abomination.” I understand it. I was raised a good Catholic boy. My parents even strong-armed me into going to their Catholic college, instead of the state college I wanted to attend, but I never saw myself as an abomination as I wanted so much more than just sex. I wanted love and a relationship…so how could that be wrong?

Of course it also helped that at the same time, Oprah, Geraldo, and other talk shows started featuring LGBT guests, who looked like “regular people,” acted like regular people, some were even ex-military & cops and this all flew in the face of what I was told what queer people were.

AIDS was devastating. I lost so many dear friends. The worst when when I would talk to my dad, and he deemed AIDS as “gawd’s judgement.” He eventually came around, when my parents met my gay friends and really liked them A LOT more than my sisters’ straight, boring, unfunny, uncultured friends. At one point, it was a bit unsettling when I had a bf my dad wanted to hang out with all the time, as they had way too many interests in common.

 

I’m a cis gendered white guy, and I’m ashamed that I had similar attitudes growing up. To be fair, I learned sex ed through ’60’s TV. I’m so glad I got past it. Even though I used to get hit on by gay guys all the time. 😉

 

My dad told me that all gay men acted & like to dress like women. “I couldn’t be gay. I’m not drawn to crossdressing nor attracted to effeminate men.”

Nothing’s worse than that time when I was closeted & neurotic 17-22 year old…desperately wanting some gay man to come onto me, only to be offended and terrified of being detected as gay.

When I was in an internship in college, there was this very cute, 30-ish mailman who delivered to the office all the time. One time he walked by my desk and flirted with me. I reacted rudely at the thought of being discovered. I thought about it later, and thought I should apologize the next time I saw him, and see where things go from there (never having been with another man yet.) Sadly, I never saw him again, as he had gotten sick shortly thereafter & died of AIDS.

 

I’m REALLY glad you had that experience. We each process what it means to be gay differently and I’m glad for your happy outcome. 🙂

My own self-loathing kept me away from friendly gay spaces and in my fraternity. Never mind that we would sometimes go to the big gay bar on $5 all you can drink Tuesdays. When I was finally outed and literally chased out of the house my biggest fear was that one of my ‘brothers’ would tell my parents. It’s not like the contact information wasn’t on file. But they didn’t.

I was booted from my frat when the fraternity president decided to come clean and tell his girlfriend that the two of us were having sex. After she ratted us out I was blackballed and the president stayed claiming I had “influenced” him. I guess the others I was having regular sex with as well felt it best to vote me out as to not appear to also having been “influenced”.

 

I never slept with any of my brothers but I did fuck my way through about a quarter of the PiKappaAlpha house. One bit of unfortunately blowback from my own outing was the guilt by association. Because I was treasurer and the assumptive president for the coming fall term, the whole thing created a bit of a scandal. I became toxic overnight and some of that stuck to others that I cared deeply for. In some cases I was the first person that they had spoken the words out loud to.

 

Frat guys having sex with each other. That NEVER happens! /s

That is about as disgusting as it gets. What a pile of steaming shit that woman is.

Oh man, I am so sorry to hear that happened to you.

My college’s GSU (1975) was the first place I felt comfortable coming out, and the first time I met people who felt the same way I did. It’s also where I met my first bf.

I’m glad you made it through.

We all had/have our journeys. I survived and thrived, despite the delay & one-two punch in my journey of self-discovery & coming out.

1. Just before attending college and anticipating the exploration of my adulthood, I was reading about the sudden explosion of this ARC disease afflicting the gay community.

2. Was my college’s threat to this new gay safe space organization.

Moving 1000 miles away, 5 years later I found love (for 4-5 years), my happy gay self and tons of gay & lesbian friends.

 

Joining the Army saved my life. I was so afraid of getting kicked out for being gay (this was PRE-“Don’t ask, don’t tell) that I basically went celibate for 4 years, which coincided with the height of the plague.
I remember going home on leave my first year. When I say that literally EVERY single person I’d slept with (and there were a lot) was dead, I’m not kidding.
All those beautiful young men. It’s no wonder I’m filled with rage at the right.

“It gets better”
GQP: “We’ll see about that!”

Or, “Not if we can help it.”

I don’t get it. The school got the grant. It wouldn’t take any money and very little effort on the school’s part to make this happen. I don’t know of any school that would refuse free money. I guess I do now. 😦

“Wicked”
Now thats a word seldom used anymore as a descriptive. Very telling of this god-botherer’s religious sect

I tried to make this as brief as I can:

True, the board voted 7-2 against accepting the $10,000 grant from the nonprofit It Gets Better Project. The negative majority objected to the It Gets Better Project “branding,” and what they percieved are implications of “indoctrination.”

However, in discussion beginning at hour 2:05 through 2:58 the board recognized the need for such a safe space, without objection. Eventually, the board voted 6-3 to direct the school system to find the funding for the safe space.

School Board Chair Dr. Gupta, a “No” voter on the It Gets Better Project grant, then offered to personally fund the project with $10,000. Accordingly, the Board then voted 9-0 to reconsider the 6-3 vote at their next meeting, pending investigation of any legal matters that might arise around Dr. Gupta’s donation.

I’m as disgusted as anyone here that in early discussion some board members wanted to accept the grant but were not willing recognize the grantor with a sign on the safe room’s door. But by the end of the meeting the glass was half-full — a safe room will be established, and a prominent local individual has offered to fund it.

Retiring after 17 years in my own city’s government, a place not unlike Lynchburg VA, I swore I’d never again watch another local government meeting. But watching the Lynchburg meeting I was encouraged. Especially that the needs of LGBT children were discussed (in Lynchburg, home of Liberty University!)

The meeting was calm and deliberate, without any Moms-for-Liberty stunts. I was especially struck by the diversity of the school board members, politically and ethnically. (Again in Lynchburg!) Another long, boring meeting, but I was surprised to find this one fascinating.

So, if I am reading this right, the school board recognized the need for a safe space for LGBTQ students, and approved the creation of such a space – they just couldn’t bear to take those queer dollars to fund it.

 

 

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