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8 Awesome Queer Books for the Youth and Tweens in Your Life
LGBT fiction for the tween / young teen in your life, or for anyone who likes a good queer book (spoiler: that’s everyone).
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Read a F*cking Book: “(RE)Sisters” Knows That to Be Queer Is to Be Powerful
Through rule-breaking, more than one unauthorized hot air balloon flight, and a lot of other creative and brave attempts at escape, (RE)Sisters reveals truths about what we know, but may not always be able to say: that we are itching to break free of the implicit and explicit confines the white supremacist, patriarchal, heterosexist, cissexist, ableist, imperialist world puts on us.
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EXCLUSIVE: Cathy G. Johnson Announces Her New Book “No Dogs Allowed” and Misfit Middle School Girls!
In this very special Drawn to Comics we get to announce Cathy G. Johnson’s new book about a misfit middle school girls’ soccer team and talk about the upcoming queer paranormal romance anthology The Other Side!
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“This Is A Book For The Parents Of Gay Kids”: A Coming Out Conversation with Bruce and Phyllis
I emailed my dad, Bruce, and my grandma, Phyllis, and asked if they’d like to have a three-generational conversation inspired by the book. They agreed, and so we all read it and converged on my dad’s house to discuss.
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Were We Ever So Young: Revisiting “Empress of the World”
The names of the main characters, Nic and Battle, were gender neutral enough that I projected heterosexuality onto them, not yet knowing that gay YA lit was something even there to be looked for.
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LGBT Youth Get New GSA Name and Tagline; LGBT Elders Get Left Out of Key Legislation
The GSA is now more inclusive of all genders and sexualities but the Older Americans Act isn’t inclusive of LGBT elders; Islan Nettles’ killer will go to prison for 12 years; progress on Merrick Garland’s confirmation, a congresswoman crusading against online harassment and more.
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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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DW Trantham, Courageous Trans Teen, Stands Up For Her Bathroom Rights and Finds Community Support
“We’re not freaks, we’re not perverts, we’re just people. I’m worried about my bathroom safety more than anyone else.”
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“We Are The Youth” Captures Young Queers Across America
This extraordinary photojournalism project highlights young queer lives and stories.
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LGBTQ Students Need Representation in Textbooks — and a Whole Lot More
On the 45th anniversary of Stonewall and the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, it is worth interrogating how we learn and know our histories — and the conditions that contribute to our learning environment.
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New Research Suggests Homophobia Linked to Overachieving As Well As Misery
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?
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More Visible Than Purple: LGBT Kids and the Road to Safer Schools
I wish we were all in a room so I could say, “If you are LGBTQI, could you please raise your hand if you believe you had room to develop your identity at your preK-12 schools? Your full identity?”
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How Gay Prevention “Therapy” Ruined Kirk Murphy’s Life, Made George Rekers’ “Career”
“Interestingly, Rekers would never mention the suicide attempt in any of his papers or books published after “Sissy Boy Syndrome” appeared in 1987. As far as Rekers was concerned, it never happened. Kirk was perfectly normal.”
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Teenaged Freaks & Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth, Hopefully That Includes Homogays
“If you’re different in school, that makes you an outsider. If you’re different as an adult, that makes you interesting, fun and often successful.”
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The Obama Adminstration’s War On Gay Teen Homelessness
“…every child and youth who is unable to live with his or her parents is entitled to a safe, loving and affirming foster care placement, irrespective of the young person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression,”
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Do School Libraries Need Books? (Yes! We needed “Annie on my Mind”!)
Many schools are considering doing away with books — NYTimes debates the issue with Experts, and we have feelings. Also; gay Canadian teens in rural areas are lonely, lesbian activist marries gay man to prove a point, transgender woman on Oprah, first African-American gay speaker of the house in Rhode Island, Utah GBLTs won’t be ignored, and a kickass parody of the offensive Dodge Charger Superbowl Ads.
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Gay Bullying: How Did We Get Here? An Expert Explains
It’s 2010, and Portia de Rossi just changed her last name to DeGeneres. How is bullying of gay kids in school really still a life-threatening problem? Finally, an actual expert gives you some answers.
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Everybody Hurts
Not all gay kids are depressed — and not all straight kids are happy. In The New York Times’ “Gay or Straight, Teenagers Aren’t So Different,” experts discuss new research and make salient points. This whole thing reminds me of “Pump up the Volume.”
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Gone Too Soon: 13-Year Old Gay Texas Boy Driven to Suicide by Bullying
13-year-old Asher Brown was bullied for being gay. Last week he decided he just couldn’t take it anymore.
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SMACKDOWN: Lies In “The Truth About GLSEN’s School Climate Report” from Anti-Gays
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.