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13 / 30 March 2006 Serving the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities since 1971 Home News Open Forum Columns Arts Arts Columns Classifieds Obituaries Archives About the BAR Sign Up for the BAR Mailing List ADVERTISEMENT NEWS Fundies rally, gays protest at City Hall by Rob Akers Phil Nickerson, left, joined the protest againstBattlecry last Friday outside City Hall.

Photo: Jane Philomen Cleland Print this Page Send to a Friend email: Constant springtime drizzle and public espousal of dissenting opinions – two San Francisco traditions.

As so it was Friday, March 24, in front of City Hall where LGBT community members showed up to voice opposition to a rally by a Christian teenage group whose adult leader had openly made antigay remarks.  "We don't hate homosexuals ...

we only hope that some of them would show up to hear what we have to say," said Amanda Hughey, teen spokeswoman for the Texas-based youth group Teen Mania that was staging its "Battlecry for a Generation" last weekend in San Francisco.

Showing up was no problem for about 100 local residents with umbrellas, bullhorns, and placards in tow, obviously not convinced of the group's amiable intentions.

"We moved here to get away from people like them," said Deidre, who requested she be identified only by her first name.

Deidre and her friend Kate said they showed up "to protect the city and continue to have a place to live f...

... :: rekord.co.za :: Afrikaans | English Children not kept safe Not only is the social system failing Pretoria’s estimated three thousand street children, but the community is also keeping them on the streets.

These are some of the comments that followed an article that appeared in Rekord last week, exposing how females, referred to as ‘stout madams’ by the boys, are paying street boys good money for special favours.

“The street children are the future of this country but as long as the community gives them money, food or clothes, they will stay on the streets and develop into habitual criminals when they grow up,” says Tahiyya Hassim, chairperson of the Tshwane Alliance for Street Children (TASC).TASC houses a few hundred street children who they attempt to rehabilitate and educate for a better future with limited money.“Instead of giving to street children, the community should rather give to shelters that aim to help the children,” she says.

According to Tahiyya, it is an endless battle because the community, who means well by giving to the street children, are in fact doing more harm than good.“Street children leave their homes because of poverty, abuse or the death of their parents.

It is never an easy decision for any child to make.“They end up on the streets, already broken and hurt and in desperate need of support.

They have to learn very quickly to survive by getting involved in prostitution, drug trafficking or stealing.

“If we can get a stree...

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30, 2006 email this print this reprint or license this Meeting addresses underage drinking An October survey of various students shows the percentage of imbibing 11th-graders is above the state average By Eric Louie CONTRA COSTA TIMES San Ramon Valley schools are used to having students perform above the state average in academics.

But local youths are also above the state a...