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Only after a petition Apple dumps hideous ‘cure gays’ app

Categories: Awareness EN, EN, slide

Tags: discrimination

Published on: 24 March, 2011

Titterzz quicky 24-03-2011: What’s the deal? Why does Apple support anti-gay stuff like this? Titterzz doesn’t get it. And this push-pull has been going on for quite a while. Fortunately, the app in which gays get cured ??? is removed. Ok. At least that’s something, after 146,000 people signed a Truth Wins Out petition. Still, the main questions remain: Why do you wanna have this app available? And, why not removing it voluntarily? As far as Titterzz is concerned: this stinks!

Don’t do an ostrich

Categories: Awareness EN, EN

Tags: discrimination

Published on: 27 January, 2011

Titterzz quicky 27-1-2011: This nice opinion blog raises an important fact: you can ignore stuff on various levels. Discrimination is just one of many ways…

Lesbian pastor is ‘one of those’… discriminated against…

Categories: Awareness EN, EN

Tags: discrimination

Published on: 19 January, 2011

Titterzz quicky 19-1-2011: A Swedish lesbian pastor was denied a job because of her sexual orientation. The Sweden’s Equality Ombudsman handles her case.

University of Minnesota denies demoting lesbian coach

Categories: Awareness EN, EN

Tags: discrimination

Published on: 13 December, 2010

Source: Advocate.com December, 2010 By Michelle Garcia The University of Minnesota is denying claims that it demoted the women’s golf team’s associate coach because she is a lesbian, after she was allegedly hired under a different job description. Katie Brenny, 30, was hired in August under the pretense that her new job would allow her[...]

Christian group campaigns to have anti-gay app reinstated

Categories: Awareness EN, EN

Tags: discrimination, tolerance (gay-)

Published on: 3 December, 2010

Source: PinkNews, 2nd December, Jessica Green. A anti-gay Christian group is campaigning to have an iPhone app against gay marriage reinstated. Apple removed the Manhattan Declaration app from its iTunes store last week after media attention but the Christian group is calling for supporters to sign a petition to have it returned to the site. The Manhattan Declaration is[...]

Institutional discrimination: its impact on the health & disorders of LGB-population

Categories: EN, Science EN

Tags: discrimination

Published on: 10 November, 2010

Titterzz found this subject on the net, a very nice prospective study. If a psychiatric disorder is often considered to be a ‘trait characteristic’, a case of genetics, or a vulnerability that’s triggered at a certain age, this study points out an additional source. Enlightening! It’s published in American Journal of Public Health, March 2010, Vol 100, No. 3, 452-459. The[...]

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