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Gay Book Stirs Controversy in Alaska
PoliticsAlaskaBooksYouthAbout 50 residents of Wasilla, Alaska, came to Monday night’s City Council meeting to air concerns about the presence of a volume called This Book Is Gay in the children’s...
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Hate Group Forces School to Cancel 'I Am Jazz' Book Reading
YouthTransgenderLiberty CounselEducationMediaDaniel ReynoldsAn elementary school in Wisconsin has cancelled plans to read a book about a transgender child.Mount Horeb Primary Center had scheduled a...
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40 Under 40: Musician Halsey Fights Mental Illness Stigma, Just By Being Herself
40 Under 40LGBT youthYouthMusicBisexualityArts & EntertainmentRaffy ErmacA massive crowd is lined up for blocks outside of Hollywood’s popular concert venue the Fonda Theatre. Despite the...
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Former Boy Scout Executive Who Helped Lift Ban on Gays to Helm LGBT Youth Group
YouthBoy Scouts of AmericaPhiladelphiaBreakingBil BrowningA few years ago, Thomas Harrington was a local and national executive for the Boy Scouts of America and tasked with enforcing the group's ban...
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Three LGBT Youths Describe Being Homeless in NYC
CommentaryYouthLGBT youthCarl SicilianoIn recent months photographer Ocean Morisset and I been documenting the stories of LGBT youths who have been driven to homelessness. Their experiences of cruel...
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Remember Our Homeless LGBT Youth This Holiday Season
CommentaryYouthLGBT youthReverend Irene MonroeThe holiday season is a difficult time of year for many.Too often we see the commercialism that this holiday brings, totally missing its spiritual...
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Far-Right Activist Sues Virginia School District Over LGBT-Inclusive Policy
YouthTransgenderEducationSchoolsVirginiaLiberty CounselTraditional Values CoalitionTrudy RingRight-wing activists have sued to overturn an LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination policy adopted by the school...
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Georgia's First Pride School Seeks LGBT Students, Faculty
YouthEducationGeorgiaBullyingBreakingSunnivie BrydumGay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer students — and teachers — in Atlanta will have a dedicated safe space to learn and work next school...
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WATCH: Parents of Eighth-Graders Angry Their Kids Were Asked If They're Gay
YouthSchoolsFamiliesRaffy ErmacSome parents at a Pennsylvania middle school are upset with the administration because, they say, their children were asked whether they were gay during a workshop aimed...
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The Fosters' Gavin MacIntosh Has Your Back
televisionThe FostersYouthRaffy ErmacFor some people, it’s been a long time since the thought of a schoolyard bully brought fear and anxiety into their daily lives. Sometimes adults forget the...
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This PFLAG Campaign in Schools Comes With Hidden Message
YouthPFLAGSchoolsBreakingBil BrowningPFLAG Toronto has come up with a way of getting its message to schools — at least to those who know how to read it.The group's innovative new campaign uses posters...
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LGBT Activists Close to Buying Church of 'Sodomite Semen' Pastor
ReligionLGBT youthYouthNew York CityNeal BrovermanPastor James David Manning has long been an enemy of LGBT New York, with his church putting up signs that call for the stoning and damnation of gay...
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Actually, Lots of People Will Buy Cookies From a Trans Girl Scout
TransgenderYouthGirl ScoutsBusinessCleis AbeniNine-year-old Stormi, a transgender Girl Scout in Herrin, Ill., had the best answer to the mean man who told her, “Nobody wants to buy cookies from a boy...
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Westboro Baptist Church Targets Kids Book Event
BooksWestboro Baptist ChurchYouthNeal BrovermanThe Westboro Baptist Church has targeted the creators of the new LGBT-themed children’s book Square Zair Pair— a story which promotes diversity and...
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Tyler Clementi's Former Roommate Wants His Record Cleared
CrimeLGBT youthYouthTyler ClementiNew JerseyBullyingSunnivie BrydumThe former Rutgers student who secretly filmed Tyler Clementi's intimate encounter with another man before his suicide in 2010 wants...
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Florida Transgender Rights Opponents Countered by Students, Supporters
TransgenderFloridaBreakingYouthActivismDawn EnnisA Sarasota, Fla., suburb is waiting for its school board to meet and vote on potentially expanding a new transgender-inclusive bathroom policy,...
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The Science Behind Straight Women’s Love for Gay Men
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Arizona Trans Man Shot and Killed By Police in His Own Home
TransgenderYouthCrimeHate CrimesMediaCleis AbeniTwo as yet unnamed Arizona police officers shot to death a 24-year-old transgender man in his own home on Thursday, according to a report from ABC 15...
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Cyndi Lauper: We Need to End LGBT Youth Homelessness
CommentaryLGBT youthYouthCyndi LauperIt’s an election year and there’s a lot of talk about what our nation’s priorities need to be for the next four to eight years. What we have to make sure is not...
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Trans Teen Finds Acceptance on Prep School Baseball Team
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