Wednesday, December 16, 2009

The War on Kevin Jennings (and GLSEN)

"... the homophobes latest reason for wanting to have Kevin Jennings [pictured] fired as Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools at the U.S. Department of Education is because of a book called Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology and some artwork that appears in it that was done by someone named Daryl Vocat. The book is on GLSEN's recommended reading list. As some may recall, Kevin Jennings founded GLSEN. But he's not there anymore, not that anyone's noticed," reports NG Blog. "While everyone's doing their best to feign indignation, the question no one seems to have asked is what do the etchings have to do with Kevin Jennings and GLSEN?" Read more at NG Blog.



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