Results for: be the change
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You Need Help: Coming Out as Non-Binary in High School
“It’s common to want to tell everyone about your newfound realization about your identity, so that you can feel like you’re living authentically and with integrity. But you get to do whatever feels best to you!”
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Interview With My High School Crush: Leanne
“You totally had me freaked out. You must have been acting kind of weird that night and for a while before. Because when you were like ‘There’s something I need to tell you,’ I thought you were dying. I had no clue.”
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Queer Crip Love Fest: Radically Vulnerable Feminist Pep Talk
“We met on the first day of high school. I was drawn to her for some reason. She was reading; that might have been it. She had glasses; that could have been it, too.”
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You Need Help: You Don’t Agree With Your Best Friend’s Advice
I think she’s being the most supportive—and she’s exactly what you want in a best friend, because she’s in your corner and she’s supporting you as a whole person. She’s giving you some solid advice here—this is a bad idea. It is. Darling, this is a terrible idea.
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Prom Roundtable: The Magical Night Of Memories of Our Collective Lives
“My date got incredibly drunk and ended up passing out in the back of the limo, facedown in my boobs. It was not the romantic prom story I felt I’d been promised.”
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10 Ways Educators Can Make Schools Safer for LGBT Youth
We’re participating in GLSEN’s Ally Week and talking about how K-12 educators can become better allies to the LGBT youth in their schools.
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Kaitlyn Hunt’s Case May Already Be Bringing Change for Laws About Gay Teen Relationships
Kaitlyn Hunt’s case is motivating Florida state senator Thad Altman to revisit Florida’s laws regarding teens’ consensual sexual relationships; he argues that they should “provide more forgiveness” for teens like Hunt.
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Ontario’s New High School Gender Studies Class Will Probs Change The World
Ontario’s high schools will offer a gender studies class next semester.
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GLSEN Report Shows It’s Finally Getting Better in Schools For LGBT Youth
“High school and middle school are hard enough as it is. To think about the additional barriers facing these students is pretty heartbreaking, and we all need to stand up and do what we can to move them out of the way.”
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Girls’ Happiness Plummets Circa Age 11, Says New Study and also a Billion Older Studies
But let’s not blame technology.
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MTV’s New Fake Lesbian Show “Faking It” Makes Me So Confused
On April 22, MTV will be premiering a new comedy about two girls who pretend to be lesbians together in order to get popular at school. Needless to say, this has me very confused.
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These Adorable Lesbian Homecoming Queens Top Off Our Best Queer Homecoming Season Ever
Greta Melendez and Lily Cohen are the latest in a month of queer homecoming winners and a much longer line of kids battling for the right to wear tiaras in public while gay.
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Fox News, CNN Show Their Transphobic Colors In Response To California’s Transgender Student Bill
Once again, 24-hour news networks let us down by giving a stage to bigots and showing that the only things they know about trans* people are outdated transphobic stereotypes.
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California Becomes First To Pass Law Requiring Trans* Students Treated Equally, Because Humanity
In a major victory for transgender youth, California passes law giving trans* students equal protection, opportunities and access in public schools.
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Teach Me Your Ways: The Teachers Who Helped Make Us Queer
Many of us were lucky enough to have teachers who didn’t make us queer as such, but they did help make it a little easier on us, sometimes even before we knew it about ourselves. Here’s to them.
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7 Graduation Happenings That Are Surprisingly Relevant To Your Queer Culture
We’re going meta and talking about what everyone’s talking about at commencement ceremonies.
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RIP MSN Messenger
When someone saw you through puberty, coming out and university, you have to pay your respects. Goodbye dear friend.
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Was This Michigan Teacher Fired For Promoting Gay Rights?
Brook Johnson, an openly gay teacher claims her suburban Lansing school fired her for a diversity club that promoted LGBT equality.
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Teacher Accused of Causing Gayness, Which Is Incorrect and Impossible
A Floridian teacher stands up for her lesbian student, is blamed for student’s sexuality.
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Make 2012 a Safer Year for LGBT Students
We’re only a few weeks into the 2012 school year and already organizations are stepping up to the plate to make it a little bit easier for today’s queer youth.