I was reading about this in the news. There are apparantly Lesbian gangs in some areas that are attacking other girls in the schools and other crimes and forms of rape. This articles is actually about some pro-lesbian organizations that were complaining about news coverage of the topic, but it made me aware that this might be a problem in vaious parts of the country. I was just wondering if others here had heard of it. I do know that this certainly another reason to homeschool. Below is a quote of the article Begin Quote: By Bob Unruh © 2008 WorldNetDaily.com Two news stories about hundreds of lesbian gangs attacking and raping young girls in schools and other public locations have prompted a backlash against the reporters by members of the homosexual community. Rebecca Medina of WPTY-TV in Memphis, Tenn., among journalists exposing rapes of girls by lesbian gangs The broadcasts by Memphis television station WPTY and Fox News host Bill O'Reilly quoted law enforcement authorities, victims, and even some gang members to document the growing number of attacks on young girls by lesbian gang members. "The Eyewitness News Everywhere" report in Memphis documented incidents of gangs known as GTOs, or "Gays" Taking Over, attacking schoolgirls. Two prison inmates affiliated with the gang told the station they had begun meeting to offer each other support, but a younger generation of members had taken their group over for violence and rape. Rod Wheeler, who has experience as a police detective, told O'Reilly of a growing national concern over lesbians and some men "recruiting kids as young as 10 years old in a lot of the schools in the communities all across the country." He estimated the presence of 150 gangs, including lesbian gangs, in the Washington area alone. Some of the children, Wheeler said, "have actually reported that they were actually forced into, you know, performing sex acts and doing sex acts with some of these people." On the Memphis report, Deputy Beverly Cobb of the Shelby County Gang Unit said lesbian gang members "will sodomize [with sex toys] and will force [young schoolgirls] to do all sexual acts. They are forcing themselves on our young girls in all our schools." The report included a long list of Memphis-area schools where such incidents were documented. The gang members, Cobb said, "carry weapons … they will use them quicker than any male that I've ever come upon – to try and fight them you'll get hurt." Reports also said in some of the locations the organizations called themselves DTOs, or Dykes Taking Over. But the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, which had tried to suppress the Memphis report before it aired, issued a statement charging the reporting was "without … one solid statistic or credible source." Rashad Robinson, GLAAD's senior director of media programs, called the reporting "inaccurate tabloid journalism" and said it "perpetuates dangerous stereotypes about lesbians and feeds a climate of homophobia, anti-gay discrimination and violence." Participants in several blogs simply ridiculed the reports. A writer who was identified as "Idaho Librul" told the "From the Left" website: "Thank goodness for Bill O'Reilly! I saw a group of rampaging lesbians just the other day going up and down my street. Oh wait a minute, come to think of it, they were Girl Scouts selling cookies. But I was terrified!" On the After Ellen blog, another wrote, "Yes, it's true, we're just one cell short of being a full-fledged terrorist network. Don't bother asking us where bin Laden is – we'll never tell." Peter LaBarbera Peter LaBarbera, of Americans for Truth, an organization publicizing information about the impact of the "gay" lifestyle, contends pro-homosexual influences have so permeated many media organizations that the "gay" promoters are accustomed to having only their side reported. For example, the Memphis report referenced young schoolgirls being hurt, but GLAAD's statement ignored those victims. "All they wanted to do was shut down the story," LaBarbera told WND. "This epitomizes the selfishness of the gay activists." Having heard over the years of the fast-growing influence of lesbian gangs and their tactics of intimidation, LaBarbera said the reports, including an estimate of 150 attack squads in the Washington, D.C., region alone, were no surprise. Neither was it a surprise that "gay" activists would try to intimidate a news team into silence about such a story, including reports the activists demanded to see the story before it aired and threatened lawsuits. In fact, GLAAD condemned the Memphis program as full of "dangerous, inaccurate stereotypes." "GLAAD was first alerted to the story when Initiative Fairness of the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center, The Tennessee Equality Project and Memphis community members called to complain about a problematic promotional ad," the organization said. "The teaser, aired during February 'sweeps' month, foreshadowed the familiar defamatory script in which a local news reporter relies on tabloid-style journalism and anecdotal claims. "This type of reporting creates a climate of homophobia and fear, perpetuating dangerous, inaccurate stereotypes of gay people and feeding a climate of anti-gay discrimination and violence," the group said. GLAAD contacted the station managers and after a private preview concluded it was "shockingly defamatory." The statement cast aspersions on interview subjects, calling the sheriff's department gang officer "a so-called 'gang expert,'" and advocated a consumer campaign to present complaints to the station managers. "They are taking the line that there's no other side," LaBarbera said. "If you read that GLAAD release about perpetuating negative stereotypes, you can't write anything negative about any homosexuals." "It's a stunning bit of crude bullying," he said. LaBarbera has had his own experience with "'gays" wanting only their side of the story told. He's debated the issue of homosexuality several times, he said, and has seen homosexuals lobbying debate organizations to "interview us alone." "You don't need to put us on with that bigot," they've told debate organizers, LaBarbera said. Many homosexual activists have influenced news reports by providing journalists with new definitions of various words and phrases, and major news groups such as the New York Times and Associated Press have adopted some of those demands. According to GLAAD's own documentation, the AP tells its writers to "avoid references to 'sexual preference' or to a gay or alternative 'lifestyle.'" And it says the New York Times tells its writers to "avoid" the term "admitted homosexual" because that "suggests criminality or shame." They also are told to avoid the term "gay rights," because "advocates for gay issues are concerned that the term may invite resentment by implying 'special rights' that are denied other citizens." Instead, the phrase "equal rights" or "civil rights" should be used." Also, New York Times writers never must use "sexual preference," because it "carries the disputed implication that sexuality is a matter of choice." LaBarbera noted a prominent homosexual journalist has likened talking to Christians about "gay" issues to talking to the Klan about race issues. "Obviously, this is their whole thing. They want to portray religious conservatives as analogous to the Klan," he said. He noted even Fox News has contributed to the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. "Journalists need to re-evaluate their ethics on this whole issue, giving money to gay and lesbian groups," he said. "There is a serious professional ethic at stake: Are we going to be bullied by powerful special interest groups into distorting the news and covering up key information," he asked. "Here's a lesbian gang story obviously affecting inner city schools. If there were any justice in the media this would be huge. There would be investigations kicking in," he said. "This is really Orwellian. We've got gayspeak words," LaBarbera said. "Here you have girls being raped by other girls, and somehow GLAAD manages to turn the homosexual lobby into the victims," he said. The original Memphis TV report included stories of school washroom rapes of schoolgirls, assaults with sex toys, and the intimidation that comes from the threat of those attacks. LaBarbera told WND he heard about the "lesbian bullying phenomenon" from former lesbian-turned-Christian evangelist Linda Jernigan, who was contacted by a teacher about speaking at a suburban Chicago where "this sick behavior was occurring." "Jernigan said she was told that lesbian girl gangs would drag a targeted female into the school restroom, hold her down, and perform oral sex on her to 'turn her out' – i.e., forcible 'seduce' the poor girl through lesbian rape," he said. But he said that should be no surprise, because the "Vagina Monologues," a feminist-lesbian play celebrated by liberal elites, in its original version contains a chapter about a 24-year-old lesbian woman "who plies a 13-year-old girl with alcohol to seduce her." The author turned the pedophile rape "into a sort of feminist-lesbian 'moral good' by having the girl victim end up as a happy lesbian who says, 'I'll never need to rely on a man,'" LaBarbera said. He noted such rape descriptions were edited from later versions. There also was an WCAU report from Philadelphia several years earlier providing similar documentation to such allegations about lesbian attacks.
Wow. I have not heard of them before. The whole fact that the g** community wants to keep it quiet is beyond me. I think they would want to stand up and fight against something like this. Oh, it will turn into another thing that we are being discriminating against them if they are tried in court or such. JMO
By their argument then any news story depicting a band of African American Bloods or The Latin Kings is racist. The trials of those televangelists who stole tons of money were a form of religious persecution. And on and on. Apparently we should all be allowed to commit crimes because if anyone makes a big deal out of it, they are a bigot for one reason or another.
WOW! I'd never heard of this either. Sick, sick, sick! Sick that it's even happening in the first place, and more sick that the GLAAD people want crimes covered up. The public should know about this and be warned/do something about it, and what ever happened to Freedom of the Press? And yes, another reason to be very glad I homeschool! Especially since I have three GIRLS. . . . .
Just another sign of how out of control our world has gotten. So sad, and so maddening. When it's young men involved in such a thing they are found guilty whether they really are or not, but when it's a gay person/group they can never be guilty. Such a horrible situation. This isn't a problem bc they are gay, it's a problem bc they are raping people. I can't understand how GLAAD or anyone else could support them, regardless of sexuality, race, religion or anything else.
I've googled this and can't find anything to back this up other then the statements of one Deputy Beverly Cobb. No school officials, no family members, no victims, no convictions...Not a blessed thing. Most of the articles in fact quote people who have a general political interest in this and NO real link to the supposed events. There is a 4 year old news report from NBC10 about one school and a couple of dozen concerned people. No criminal charges however and no mention of rape or sexual assaults. Concerns from GLAAD more then likely arise from new reports that don't seem to have any grounding in fact and make hyperbolic claims of rape. I imagine that if there were reports of a homeschooling gang terrorizing schooled kids the HSLDA would be stepping in in almost the same way. I don't have a lot of time for Worl Net Daily.
I did find some stuff on this.... But none of it is new. The earliest reference is about a year old... Here is the actual O'Reilly Clip.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOpChXhglGg A 2004 report from NBC in Philly... That dawninns has already quoted.. sorry.... http://www.nbc10.com/news/2857417/detail.html NY Post 2006... http://www.nypost.com/seven/1004200..._stab_shocker_regionalnews_laura_italiano.htm Here is a blog report about it... http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/07/oreilly-and-pistol-packin-mamas.html 2007 Catholic News report... http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=9816 This is a report from the Advocate (Warning on images) of Bill O'Reilly's 2007 Apology for "Overstating" some facts.. http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid47736.asp In 2007 Concerned Women for America post that GLAAD did in fact sue to keep a report of local TV, but the station aired it anyway... http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=13499&department=CFI&categoryid=education Here is an actual copy of what Bill O'Reilly apologized for. http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/07/10/oreilly-lesbian-gangs-followup/ Here is the GLAAD page on the subject.... http://www.glaad.org/action/calls_detail.php?id=4031 There is nothing on Snopes. The fact that the earliest story, that I can find, is from four years ago, and that O'Reilly did apologize for what he said, leads me to believe that this "Might" be fear mongering. Seems like there would be more reports about the "Hundreds" of incidents... Then again, the GLAAD organization is pretty powerful...
As powerful as any lobby group. Perhaps they could influence some news outlets but not all and certainly the influence wouldn't extend to a complete blackout. It also wouldn't extend to the real lack of sources and facts in the WND report.
OK, now I feel silly. I apologize for my initial comment as I didn't realize where the article came from (not very observant, apparently). Either way, I shouldn't have posted a thing until I had researched for myself. Please excuse my quick, judgmental reaction.
THis is why I was asking if anyone was hearing of this in their area. I have seen groups of girls where I used to live that looked like they might fit the description, but I did not hear of crimes perpetrated by them. My BOL is a policeman who is always getting updates on gang related trends. If I remember I will ask him next time I call over to my sisters house. Sidenote: I noticed the g** and laughed. My middle name is G**. Edited to add: I just did some googling of "lesbian gangs highschool" (without quotes at google btw) and I came up with many many articles discussing this outside of the context of the O'Rielly piece. There was a lot of chatter about the O'Rielly in the first page of results and some in the later ones, but plenty of articles about this topic from various places around the country.
I am sorry Vantage. I missed the original question. (red face) Over here, I have heard nothing of the sort. I am a news junkie, being from the industry (Yes, that makes me a nerd! hahaha). But no, we have heard nothing that I know of in the Houston area. I may be wrong.
I am finding it interesting that the emphasis in most articles about this topic are about the reporting itself, and how it might netatively reflect on one group or another, instead of being about whether or not there are victims of violence and a trend that will lead to more.
Very true. On a similar vein... I (being employed in a news room) used to think that all news was free and the threat of corruption or control was things of conspiracy theorists and stuff... then after working in newsrooms for a while, came to recognize the subtleties of the reality of news control. The realization that it does happen was harsh... broke my heart.. but it also was not some huge thing.. there was no one big monster controlling the news.. it was more subtle.. like Political correctness and "OOps! We don't want to start a riot" kind of things... Like on 9-11 when we were told we could not use words like "Terrorist" "Arab" "middle east" or "Oil" or "Iran" or "Iraq" for the first coule of hours into it. (I was live on the air when it happened and it was huge drama of course... but the control of the news was an issue of social responsibility to not cause a riot and to not looks like hatemongers... (We all remember Oklahoma City and the first reports of "Someone seeing some Arabs in the area.."??) Turns out it was a white boy and some news agencies had egg on their face... Or how about Katrina when the news organizations began to change the term refugee to evacuee... memos were posted in news rooms for this.... so that is one form of control... but again, I do not think it was out of anything but not wanting to offend... Later, it became, "How could you possibly write a positive report about George Bush? Are you a moron? Obama is the ONLY real choice in America for THINKING individuals!" <<<< One reporter to another colleague... Peer pressure to think the same way as everyone else is really a huge problems, these days... The control of the news is real, but it is usually mostly subtle stuff...
Never heard of this..but it wouldn't surprise me. NOT because these people are gay but because they are people and all can be sick.
