Don't forget about Jeffrey Dahlmer (low blow, so to speak, but I just received some bad news about a friend and don't have the inclination to blog much right now):
Saying that more role models could help alleviate the social estrangement and high suicide rates of gay and lesbian students, the California Senate voted Thursday to teach the historical contributions of homosexuals in the United States. . . .
Advocates said subjects might include the history of the civil-rights movement and the 1978 assassination of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, and textbooks could specify the sexual orientation of such well-known Americans as authors Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin and Willa Cather.
Republican Sen. Bill Morrow called the bill dangerous and insidious because it lumps sexual orientation – something he said was a "cultural or behavioral lifestyle" – together with race and sex, which are biological.
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