Sentences with phrase «against homophobic»

Filing civil rights complaints leading to the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal's decision in 2008 against homophobic harassment, which awarded a West - Island gay couple $ 15,000 in damages, and another decision from the Tribunal in 2010, granting the same couple $ 12,000 in damages in another case.

«And to stand together against homophobic, sexist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, and racist agendas.»

Poteat and Olivier Vecho of the University of Paris, Nanterre, surveyed 722 students at a New England high school, assessing factors such as leadership, courage, altruism, and justice sensitivity, as well as observing and intervening against homophobic behavior among their peers.

Broadway actor and Garcia supporter, Alan Cummings tweeted this week: «Please help Elvin Garcia win against a homophobic pro-Trump Dem for City Council!»

Weiner, who was one of just seven House Democrats who voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in 2007 to protest the lack of protections for transgender workers, recently faced questions over two occasions at which he failed to speak out against homophobic statements made in his presence while he was campaigning.

«The so - called equality bill denies protection against homophobic harassment by school authorities, by the owners and managers of properties and by the providers of services,» he continued.

Not exact matches

The ruling against the bakery implied that «gay bakers could be forced by law to decorate cakes with homophobic slogans,» he said.

Last week, the media stood by homophobic liar Joy Reid, dismissed allegations of misconduct against Tom Brokaw, gave Jake Tapper an award for fake news, used Michelle Wolf as a hate - avatar, destroyed an admiral with lies, and were caught colluding with the Deep State to overturn Trump's election.

$ 23 In a now familiar genre that combines heavy doses of self - pity with unbridled polemic against an allegedly homophobic society and church, Mel White, an evangelical Protestant who now works with a gay church in Dallas, capitalizes on his brush with fame as ghostwriter to the likes of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.

Reflecting on the rash of outraged protests against allegedly sexist, racist, and homophobic slurs erupting in our public life, New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen tries to get to the root of the matter.

to defend himself against accusations he used homophobic and racist language on Twitter.

This problem has not been contained in one region, but has proved to be a much broader phenomenon, from campaigns against media freedom in Egypt and Turkey to homophobic legislation in Africa and sustained conflict in Iraq and Syria.

The news comes as Keir Starmer announced he would not be pursuing a prosecution against Daniel Thomas, a semi-professional footballer who made a homophobic comment about Olympic divers Tom Daley and Peter Waterfield.

It is quite possible to hold such views (eg against gay adoption) without being homophobic.

Peers spoke out against the continuing power of «faith» schools to discriminate in admissions, the appointment of governors and the employment of staff, about homophobic bullying, about extremist (including creationist) groups setting up Free Schools with unbalanced curricula, about the need to repeal laws on collective worship and about the need to maintain community cohesion.

The government lost a last - ditch effort to save its law criminalising «homophobic hatred» today, after the Lords rebelled against it last night.

John Glen (Con, not waiting up for a Mensa invitation) insists he is not homophobic and hopes his «gay friends» will forgive him for voting against.

One of the most common prejudices against working class people is that they are racist, sexist, homophobic or at least very nationalistic.

Cynthia Nixon appeared at the 118th annual Legislative Correspondents Association show Tuesday and resurrected an infamous homophobic slogan that appeared in a flyer touting her opponent Andrew Cuomo's father in his failed run against NYC Mayor... Read

Homophobic (and reportedly closeted) New York state senator Carl Kruger got a profile in Page Six today: «Brooklyn state Sen. Carl Kruger became the No. 1 target of gay activists when he voted against same - sex marriage last month.

Cynthia Nixon appeared at the 118th annual Legislative Correspondents Association show Tuesday and resurrected an infamous homophobic slogan that appeared in a flyer touting her opponent Andrew Cuomo's father in his failed run against NYC Mayor Ed Koch in 1977.

Herbert also argues that Labour MPs «fall back on an outright lie to justify their charge against the Conservatives» that the party opposed laws against the incitement of homophobic hatred.

I think it is incredibly important for all New Yorkers, but particularly those in public life, to make very clear that in this city, the most diverse city in the world, the city where the LGBT civil rights movement was born, that that type of language can not be tolerated... I think that all of us need to recommit to making sure that whenever we hear language of any type that is demeaning, derogatory, racist, sexist, homophobic, anything of that nature that we speak out against it.»

Two Leicester City fans have been arrested on suspicion of homophobic related offences following the clubs match against Brighton Hove.

Harassment Epidemic Updates AV Club on Hollywood's long overdue moral reckoning New Yorker Emily Nussbaum has a terrific piece on Louis CK's comedy through the lens of recent allegations New York Times Louis CK has confessed to the claims against him «These stories are true» Medium Actor Anthony Edwards has come forward to say he was molested by a producer when he was underage Guardian Ellen Page has detailed homophobic remarks director Brett Rattner made to her during the production of X-Men: Last Stand Washington Post showing their utter depravity GOP officials are now citing the bible to justify Roy Moore's sexual assault on an underage girl.

What follows is the sweetest of love stories juxtaposed against the rigid landscape of an oppressive, homophobic, and racist Cold War America.

Last year, a frustrated Huneidi told colleagues they needed to «carry the torch too» in disciplining students for using homophobic hate language, which is against school rules.

Allegations of homophobic content arose when Infinity Ward released a video titled «Fight Against Grenade Spam».

He was later awarded the Semaine de la Critique prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1991 for «Young Soul Rebels», which highlighted unacknowledged racist and homophobic attitudes prevalent in London against a backdrop of seventies disco and radio culture.

His more controversial pronouncements against women artists, regional museums and public taste ensured that he was no stranger to criticism himself: in one incident in 1994, a group of leading artists, gallerists and scholars wrote a letter of complaint to the Evening Standard accusing him of misogynistic, homophobic and hypocritical writing, which was followed by a counter-letter in his support.

In its judgment delivered today in the case Identitoba and Others v Georgia the European Court of Human Rights has held the Georgian authorities responsible for homophobic violence against participants of a pride march in 2012.

The two workers had posted potentially threatening language and homophobic slurs against their bosses.