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Home » Archives by category » Op-Ed » Dani Langevin, Gay-Lesbian
The War on LGBTQ+ Rights ~ YE GAY OL’E VALLEY
By: Dani Lengevin – Oct. 2019 “How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think,” Adolf Hitler. This should be the current administration’s mantra. As far as I…
The War Against Women ~ YE GAY O’LE VALLEY
By Dani Langevin – Septmber, 2019 I have three grown children. My oldest, a daughter, recently gave birth to my first grandchild, a boy. How lucky he is to be…
A Day of Silence at Methuen High ~ YE GAY OL’E VALLEY
By: Dani Langevin – May, 2018 On April 26, Methuen High School students observed a Day of Silence and have been for a number of years. A Day of Silence…
School Shootings: An Epidemic ~ YE GAY OL’E VALLEY
By: Dani Langevin – March, 2018 I wrote this column in The Valley Patriot five years ago and nothing has changed. The talk has been cheap and the rhetoric ridiculous.…
GSA Summit Coming to Methuen High ~ YE GAY OL’ VALLEY
By: Dani Langevin – Nov.2017 In April and June of 2018, the GSA Regional Summit will be coming to Methuen High. It is a safe schools program for LGBTQ students…
What Banning the Transgendered in the Military will Really Cost~ YE GAY OL’ VALLEY
By: Dani Langevin – August, 2017 In June of 2010, in the second column I had ever written for the Valley Patriot, I wrote about what “Don’t ask, don’t tell”…
How Language Fails Sexual Identity ~YE GAY OL’ VALLEY
By: Dani Langevin – July, 2017 Language, as do creation stories, can define us singularly and collectively. Every culture has its own language and creation stories or stories to explain why…
GENITALS DO NOT DEFINE US ~ YE GAY OL’ VALLEY
By: Dani Langevin – Feb. 2017 Take a good look at the pictures above. When these children go to school or are out…
Methuen High: Best Part of the Gay Community ~ YE GAY OL’ VALLEY
By: Dani Langevin – Feb. 2017 When I came out 23 years ago, I was incredibly insecure, nervous almost to the point of paralysis, and petrified to enter into a…
Those Who Came Out in 2016 ~ YE GAY OL’ VALLEY
By: Dani Langevin – January, 2017 There has been a lot of focus on celebrity deaths over the past year, especially in the past few weeks where 2016 seemed hell…
Methuen LGBTQ Youth Weigh in on Trump ~ YE GAY OL’ VALLEY
By: Dani Langevin – Dec. 2016 I am blissfully now teaching sophomore U.S. History at the newly and beautifully renovated Methuen High School and loving it. I am also the…
Anti-abortion vs. Pro-life – YE GAY OL’ VALLEY
By: Dani Langevin – Nov. 2016 Barney Frank once said, “Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.” How true…
In the Name of Patriotism ~ Ye Gay Ol’ Valley
By: Dani Langevin – Oct. 2016 What is patriotism today? From what I can see it is fear, bigotry and ignorance. This came to my attention when someone on Facebook,…
Teachers Lives Matter ~ YE GAY OL’ VALLEY
By: Dani Langevin – Sept. 2016 Last month, Tom Duggan posted a comment asking people if they supported merit pay for teachers and the claws came out. I’ve been an…
History of LBGTQ Murders: Stop the Hate!
By: Dani Langevin – July, 2016 There is no doubt that the shooting at the Pulse dance club in Orlando is a tragedy. It is an act of hate, an…
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