As millions celebrate Easter, I need to ask my fellow Christians to wake up to the terrible fact that far too many LGBT youth are being abused and rejected in Christian homes.

Many conservative Christians are increasingly preoccupied with fighting against the equal treatment of LGBT people...

There is reality, and then there are people who deny reality, especially the parts of reality that are painful or horrifying.

We have climate change deniers, those who refuse to accept the overwhelming scientific evidence for human-driven climate change. And there is a small fringe group that denies that the...

This is among the most terrible expressions of homophobia in our time.

As LGBT youth come out at younger ages, thousands are driven from their homes by rejecting families. And in a society that has grown increasingly unwilling to support a safety net for the most vulnerable, they are forced...

New York City's homeless youth are frequently faced with no option but to prostitute themselves in order to survive. That's why we call it "survival sex." And Mayor Bloomberg, despite promoting anti-prostitution efforts, perpetuates this situation by failing to provide nearly enough shelter beds for homeless youth.

Last winter I...

When the Ali Forney Center first opened its doors 10 years ago today, there was simply no safe shelter for homeless LGBT kids in New York City. The only existing youth shelter was run by the Catholic Church, and LGBT kids who sought shelter there were routinely mistreated and gay-bashed....

At the Ali Forney Center we are confronted every day with kids who have been thrown out of their homes by homophobic parents. The kids are devastated to have been cast out like trash and terrified of what will happen to them. Because New York City only provides 250 youth...

Recently I published an open letter to Cardinal Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, calling his attention to the epidemic numbers of LGBT youth being rejected by their parents and forced into homelessness. I pointed out that studies indicate that religious parents are significantly more likely to reject...

Cardinal Dolan, I write to you as the director of the Ali Forney Center, the nation's largest organization dedicated to homeless LGBT youth. I am writing to you on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of LGBT youths who have been driven from their homes by parents unwilling or unable...

You weren't born to be abandoned
You weren't born to be forsaken
You were born to be loved
You were born to be loved
--Lucinda Williams

Over the past few weeks I have been meeting with homeless LGBT youth. Each young person was, at the time...

LGBT youth are under attack in our country. As teens find the courage to come out of the closet at ever-younger ages, it is becoming clear that they are shouldering much of the burden of homophobia directed against the LGBT community. While there has recently been widespread recognition and response...

Tracy Morgan is rightly facing a storm of criticism for a number of hostile statements he made against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in a recent comedy show in Nashville. Particularly alarming was his statement that, if his son were gay, he would stab him...

As someone whose job it is to protect homeless LGBT youth, I am terrified by the budget agreement that has been reached by Governor Andrew Cuomo and the leaders of the New York State Legislature.

Most profoundly, I am terrified for the lives of the teens who will be discarded...