Comments on: Nashville, Knoxville Schools Unblock LGBT Web Sites

By: 4 Types of Gay Websites Schools Should Block « Entirely Randomly Gay

4 Types of Gay Websites Schools Should Block « Entirely Randomly Gay — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:39:50 +0000

[...] summer, the ACLU got the Knoxville and Nashville school districts to retool computer filtering software that blocked students from visiting out over a thousand LGBT [...]

By: javarius

javarius — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:50:33 +0000

thank you all aso much

By: Christopher Waldrop

Christopher Waldrop — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:33:05 +0000

Yeah, that’s what I think too. I’m sorry I didn’t clarify that I never thought it was a “bug” in the filter programs. Filters are designed by people with their own agendas. And it seems like most filter companies are run by narrow-minded, bigoted people.

By: faeya

faeya — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:14:37 +0000

“The worst thing in this situation is the fact that anti-gay sites, especially sites promoting “reparative therapy”, were not blocked. Because of the way the filters were set up the schools were essentially promoting a negative view of homosexuality.”

That’s not a bug! That’s a feature!

By: Christopher Waldrop

Christopher Waldrop — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:05:50 +0000

David, thank you for reminding me about that particular bit of lunacy with Out & About being pulled from racks in grocery stores. It was specifically Kroger stores as well--other grocery store chains in the area continued to allow Out & About to be distributed. The most ridiculous thing to me about that situation was that so many of the magazines in the racks in the checkout line promote sex, and yet no grocery store seems to have a problem with those. The worst thing in this situation is the fact that anti-gay sites, especially sites promoting "reparative therapy", were not blocked. Because of the way the filters were set up the schools were essentially promoting a negative view of homosexuality.

By: David

David — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:16:16 +0000

As is all too common, those without any familiarity with gay and lesbian issues make the false assumption that anything dealing with GLBT matters is sexual in nature, and therefore, banning it from the schools is justified.

However, if ENA had more closely examined the websites they were blocking, they would have seen that many of the blocked sites did not contain anything but frank and academic information, not sexual content.

Nashville had a similar rash of reactionary ignorance not long ago when a free gay newspaper was pulled off the magazine racks of local grocery stores due to the false and alarmist claims of an anti-gay religious group that this newspaper was pornographic in nature.

Without examining the contents, the distributor halted delivery of the newspaper. Once public scrutiny revealed the source (and the falsity) of the claim, the newspaper returned to the magazine racks.