Despite the fact that LGBT youth comprise a disproportionate amount of the youth homeless population, the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act currently does not contain language or requirements to specifically protect this vulnerable population.
A new study purports that gay boys in homophobic environments pour their attentions into their studies and sports instead. Why is this, and does this apply to queer girls too?
“I covered myself, I shielded my body, and he just kept hitting me and nobody did anything.”
New survey shows that most US young people don’t find homophobic, racial or sexist slurs offensive. Is this a good or bad thing?
Yesterday Brandon McInerney’s defense team rested their case in the murder trial of 15-year-old Larry King and according to them, it was King that was the bully, not McInerney.
Even in Canada, where everyone is suposed to be nice, two-thirds of gay students feel unsafe in school. Oh, kids. No matter where you look, they’re finding a way to be assholes.
A group of parents in British Columbia are planning to hold a protest later this evening over the Burnaby school district’s proposed anti-sexual-orientation-based-discrimination policy.
This isn’t the first time a high school has threatened to cut all extracurricular clubs because they didn’t want to have a Gay Straight Alliance. But this week marks the first time someone actually has! Way to go, Flour Bluff High School in Texas!
THIS DATA IS A SCIENTIFIC REASON TO CHALLENGE HOMOPHOBIA, VIOLENCE, AND HARASSMENT, EVERYONE.
Why would a high school administration rather take away the National Honor Society and the Zombie Appreciation Club than let their kids have a Gay Straight Alliance?
Forget prom — lesbians at Del City High School are being told they shouldn’t even bother showing up to graduation.
It’s tempting to look for people to blame in the wake of the terrible tragedies this past week has brought, but it’s best to resist that urge. Oh wait, no. You can blame these people.
The stars align tonight when Kathy Griffin, Wanda Sykes, Chely Wright, Lance Bass and Tim Gunn talk gay bullying on Larry King Live — Bass talks more about how he himself was the bully and Tim Gunn remembers his darkest hours.
Taking stock of what fresh hell of gay teen bullying suicide crisis nightmare heartbreak grief we have woken up into today. There’s some good news and also Ellen, so all in all you should probably read it.
Two more gay teens commit suicide this week: an 18-year-old college freshman jumps off a bridge after finding his roommate secretly recording and transmitting his sexual encounters over the internet and 13-year-old gay-bullying victim Seth Walsh is taken off life support 9 days after he hanged himself.
13-year-old Asher Brown was bullied for being gay. Last week he decided he just couldn’t take it anymore.
Some things change and some things stay the same, like kids getting bullied in school for their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Also, a new survey reveals that most Americans think gay families are kinda normal-ish.
Rather than allow a lesbian to bring her girlfriend to prom and wear a tux, the school has canceled prom altogether! FANTASTIC. Also; the cute video of the kid finding out about gay people, the death of coffee shops, gays and the census, Bill O’Reily defends lesbian couple’s child and the national equality riders are coming soon to an oppressive campus near you.