Tag: gay student

It's illegal to refuse service due to sexuality in Israel An American student currently studying at Hebrew Union College in Jersusalem, Israel for the year, is suing a local pizzeria for allegedly refusing to serve him due to his sexuality. Sammy Kanter is a current rabbinical student. Kanter was in the city a day after Jerusalem Pride in August. He was wearing a t-shirt with rainbow letters spelling out ‘Cincy’. The shirt was for his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio. He and some friends...

Pennsylvania's Clarks Summit University, a Christian school, has denied a student from finishing the last six hours of his bachelors’s degree because he is gay. To be clear, the university kicked him to the curb not for having a boyfriend or engaging in a gay “sexual relationship” as the school’s student handbook prohibits. No, after accepting Gary Campbell’s money to take two classes, the school contacted him after learning he is gay and informed him he’s not welcome as a student...

His attackers escaped jail time – so now this gay student wants to use his attack for good Will Mayrick is the gay student who was forced to apologize for being gay, threatened with being stabbed and strangled. This month his attackers pleaded guilty, but as they are underage and pleaded guilty – escaped any jail time. At the Bexley Magistrate Courts in London, the sixteen and seventeen-year-olds received a referral order of 12 months. But if they fail to comply with...