Nebraska

College expels lesbian, demands financial aid repayment

Joe Dejka - Omaha World-Herald
June 13th, 2013

OMAHA, Neb. -- A woman contends she was expelled from Grace University in Omaha a semester before her graduation because she is a lesbian.

Danielle Powell, 24, said Tuesday she enrolled in the fundamentalist Christian university in 2007 but was expelled last year after school authorities learned she had a relationship with a female student.

Although Powell has moved on, marrying a different woman, she is still caught in a dispute with Grace officials over financial aid. She says the university has denied release of her transcripts, preventing her enrollment in another university.

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COMMENTARY: Another batch of Louisiana crazy

Barb Hamp Weicksel - SDGLN Contributor
June 4th, 2013

So, if you live in Louisiana and you’re single or you’re a same-gender couple and you’re thinking of having a child by surrogacy, you better do it now while it’s legal to do so.

Senate Bill (SB) 162 would allow only a married heterosexual (one man and one woman) couple to be able to use the services of a surrogate mother. Go ahead and read that sentence again, but know that you read it correctly the first time.

Woman who reported fake anti-gay hate crime is sentenced

1011now.com
April 19th, 2013

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Charlie Rogers, the Lincoln woman convicted of faking a hate crime, was sentenced to 24 months probation and a psychological evaluation.

The judge added seven days in jail and 250 hours of community service for Lincoln Parks & Recreation to the sentence.

Rogers must serve 90 days in jail in 2015 if she doesn't follow probation.

Rogers was also ordered to return all donations she received and if she doesn't know the donors it will go to the Lincoln Police Department.

Lesbian who faked hate crime found guilty after pleading "no contest"

Chris Dyer - LGBTQ Nation
December 11th, 2012

LINCOLN, Neb. -- In a Lancaster County courtroom Monday, Judge Gale Pokorny, found Charlie Rogers guilty of staging a fake anti-gay hate crime that shocked both the citizens of Lincoln, Neb., and the nation -- first for the brutality of the alleged crime, and then for lying about the crime.

Rogers, 34, pleaded no contest in court this afternoon, a reversal of the not guilty plea she had made in the case earlier in September. Pokorny set the date of her sentencing for February, 14, 2013.

Nebraska lesbian who allegedly faked hate crime headed to trial

Chris Dyer - LGBTQ Nation
September 28th, 2012

LINCOLN, Neb. — Lancaster County, Neb., District Court Judge Gale Pokorny on Thursday continued until Nov. 19 the case against a Nebraska woman charged with providing false information to police in connection to an alleged anti-gay hate crime that investigators now say was an elaborate hoax.

The case against Charlie Rogers, 33, stemmed from her allegedly filing a false report with Lincoln police on July 22 in which she claimed that three masked attackers invaded her home, painted homophobic slurs on the walls, and carved them into her skin, before attempting to set her house on fire.

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VIDEO: Victim in Nebraska hate crime comes forward, speaks out publicly

Chris Dyer - LGBTQ Nation
July 28th, 2012

LINCOLN, Neb. — In her first appearance since suffering an alleged attack in a home invasion last week that police officials are investigating as a possible hate crime, Charlie Rogers of Lincoln, Neb., said, “I’m not hiding from this anymore.”

Rogers, 33, said three masked attackers invaded her home, painted homophobic slurs on the walls, and carved them into her skin, before attempting to set her house on fire.

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500 gather for vigil for lesbian brutalized in home invasion

Chris Dyer - LGBTQ Nation
July 23rd, 2012

LINCOLN, Neb. — Over 500 people gathered on the steps of the Nebraska State Capitol Sunday night to hold a vigil for a lesbian woman brutalized early Sunday morning in what local LGBT activists are calling a hate crime.

According to Lincoln, Neb., Police Captain Joe Wright, patrol officers responded to an address two blocks south of Lincoln High School in the downtown area, for a reported assault and house fire.

In Nebraska, Omaha OKs workplace non-discrimination law

Chris Dyer - LGBTQ Nation
March 14th, 2012

OMAHA, Neb. — The Omaha City Council on Tuesday approved a controversial non-discrimination ordinance that would prohibit workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The final vote was 4-3.

Councilman Franklin Thompson, who voted against the ordinance, said he “would have voted in favor of the ordinance had the council been willing to remove the gender classification.”

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