Comments on: Standing Up For Each Other http://milkboys.org/standing-up-for-each-other/ The Boys Blog Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:59:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John http://milkboys.org/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-84919 John Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:53:17 +0000 http://www.milkboys.org/article/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-84919 I think you’re missing the point that the teacher tried to push his agenda on students by telling a student to remove something he was constitutionally allowed to wear. This country is founded on a marketplace of ideas, and to say some are allowed and others aren’t, especially to impressionable kids, is sick. I don’t agree with the confederate flag’s symbolism, but I’m not willing to let my country convert to fascism by censoring it. Imagine if a teacher told gay students to remove gay pride apparel, would you want the teacher to go unpunished? You can’t hold a double standard in a free, fair country, and I think its time the gay community realizes it can’t act above the law because they have ideas that conflict with other’s.

]]> By: corba http://milkboys.org/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-59454 corba Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:35:56 +0000 http://www.milkboys.org/article/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-59454 I did catch that he went with a group of people from the “Neutral Zone”.
http://www.neutral-zone.org/

So he may have learned about what happened either from his father, who is a teacher, or from the Neutral Zone, which has a program for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer and questioning youth. In the school board meeting he implied he learned about it from his father. This leads me to believe Graeme is the instigator, not the pawn. Having a large support group in the Neutral Zone probably helped propel things forward. I can see that a group of like minded individuals are going to feed off of each other. I can also understand that they have probably been talking about the high gay suicide rate.

]]> By: pyx http://milkboys.org/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-59433 pyx Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:49:28 +0000 http://www.milkboys.org/article/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-59433 Which is EXACTLY why I thought the kid was a pawn in someone else’s game all along.

I mean, maybe he felt the need to stand up for someone who stood up for what was right – and that’s admirable no matter what, but I have thought all along, that this was the kid’s dad manipulating him. And I thought even more, watching Ellen, that the dad gets off on being “father of the hero”.

]]> By: Graeme Taylor on the Ellen Show « milkboys – The Boys Blog http://milkboys.org/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-59393 Graeme Taylor on the Ellen Show « milkboys – The Boys Blog Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:01:05 +0000 http://www.milkboys.org/article/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-59393 [...] about Graeme, the 14 year-old, eloquent, openly gay lad who defended a teacher who was suspended for standing up [...]

]]> By: OneNorth http://milkboys.org/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-59392 OneNorth Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:46:48 +0000 http://www.milkboys.org/article/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-59392 So, basically this kid went to a board meeting for a school district he had absolutely nothing to do with and insulted a town he doesn’t live in while defending a teacher he doesn’t know based on an incident he had nothing to do with, either directly or indirectly, and about which he couldn’t possibly have had all the details – as I don’t think, after all the media attention – any of us really do?

To be sure, Graeme is an impressive speaker and an admirable young man, but the more I understand about the overall incident, the less I am compelled by it.

]]> By: corba http://milkboys.org/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-59391 corba Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:20:33 +0000 http://www.milkboys.org/article/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-59391 The teacher in question works for the Howell school district and had no contact with Graeme (except perhaps at the school board meeting). Howell is about one hour north west of Ann Arbor.

Graeme’s father is a teacher in the Hartland school district, about 40 minutes due north of Ann Arbor.

Graeme, and family, lives in Ann Arbor. He goes to Pioneer High School. From his age I assume he is in his first year at that High School.

Ann Arbor is a very liberal area. The University of Michigan is there.

Howell and other rural areas around it are extremely conservative areas – think Ku Klux Klan and John Birch society.

I live in the rural area, though more to the east. In local elections nobody ever runs as a Democrat, consequently whoever wins as Republican in the primary wins the general election. Someone I know in Ann Arbor tells me it is the exact opposite in Ann Arbor.

]]> By: PenboyX http://milkboys.org/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-59387 PenboyX Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:08:05 +0000 http://www.milkboys.org/article/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-59387 “Graeme is a remarkably self-possessed, and incredibly likeable young man. Talk about handle everything in his stride.”

After watching him on Ellen, I think it’s clear he LOVES the limelight and he was just as an articulate speaker on her show as he was in the original video.

“if ever there was a positive poster child for gay youth, it’s him. What a total champion.”

Most definitely.

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]]> By: OneNorth http://milkboys.org/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-59362 OneNorth Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:35:38 +0000 http://www.milkboys.org/article/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-59362 I’m a little confused or maybe I wasn’t listening carefully enough. Didn’t Graeme say that the teacher in question had counseled him when he was younger, at age nine I think, as he contemplated suicide? Then, on Ellen, he said that he drove an hour away to speak at the board meeting in support of the teacher. Did either Graeme or the teacher move at some point? I had assumed, perhaps wrongly, that the father taught, as well, in a separate school district? Does he, in fact, teach in the same district? The incident took place in a high school, correct?

I’m sure none of this is too important, but I’m curious nonetheless. Can anyone shed any light?

Thanks.

]]> By: pyx http://milkboys.org/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-59352 pyx Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:59:34 +0000 http://www.milkboys.org/article/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-59352 Thanks a lot for the upload.
Well, I stand happily corrected. Graeme is a remarkably self-possessed, and incredibly likeable young man. Talk about handle everything in his stride.

Jeez, if ever there was a positive poster child for gay youth, it’s him. What a total champion.

]]> By: PenboyX http://milkboys.org/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-59347 PenboyX Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:34:35 +0000 http://www.milkboys.org/article/standing-up-for-each-other/#comment-59347 Thank you very much for those links. Good man! But I’ll try my best to get it recorded to DVD this afternoon.

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