Gay Controversy...what else is new.

The article I discovered was about a group of high school journalists who wrote articles about the increasing number of open homosexuals on campus. The article would have passed through to printing if the school’s journalism adviser had not mentioned the articles to the assistant principal, right before publishing. The next day, the student editors were summoned to a meeting where they all reached a compromise. The names of the homosexual students would be taken out before printing. The administrators said they were afraid that the articles would cause sexual harassment towards the gay students. However, in the end all the articles were pulled from the school newspaper. The students are now suing the school for the abrupt cancellation of the articles.
In the mid-1960s, the Sexual Revolution began. During this time, gay communities in urban centers were built and the majority of gay bars were built. These changes gave some citizens a sense of gay identity, a minority that they belonged to. In 1969, the Stonewall riots took place. Thousands of gay people began to organize and demand legal and social equality. After the riots, groups such as the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activist Alliance were seen in New York. Slowly, more and more people accepted the gay lifestyle as an equal in the human race. Finally on October 14, 1979, in Washington D.C. the first nation gay rights movement took place involving more than 100,000 people. The article I read reminded myself of how long gay people have been fighting for equality in today’s world and on a large scale, have achieved it. Yet, there are a handful of people, such as those school administrators who have not yet grasped the meaning of the constitution, in which “all men are created equal”.


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