Gay Teens

Using Facebook, I recently found closure with someone from my problematic gay adolescence. It was the early '80s, and we were both in the ninth grade. I had a big, bewildering, gay crush on Zach. I was enthralled by him.

The reparative therapy described in "Hiding Out" and my later related reportage chronicled torture practices that were coercive and, in many ways, the same as what was happening in the Iraqi torture sites: humiliation, isolation, extreme physical positions, and forced confessions.

Prom is not just an exciting night for a high school student -- it's become a bonafide rite-of-passage. Of course, in a day and age when growing u...

In a day and age when growing up lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) is an increasingly volatile experience, our mothers mean more to us now ...

Matt Shankles lost friends and self-esteem and his depression grew when his eighth-grade classmates learned he was gay. They bullied him relentlessly....

I want to give you a big hug and tell you that it gets better, because it actually does. Hang on. There are people you may not even know yet who are waiting for you with open arms, and they will love you unconditionally. Trust me.

Friends and family are mourning the death of Jack Reese, a gay Utah teen who took his own life last week after allegedly being subjected to anti-gay b...

On Friday evening, people from the community met on the corner of University Avenue and Main Street in Cedar Falls to mourn the death of Kenneth J. We...

Schools can play a vital role in the road to acceptance between a parent and their LGBT child. Of course, this is a very sensitive subject among schools and parents. How do educators know when they are overstepping their boundaries with parents?

A group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students from the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance have produced an emotional new video in whic...

An Arizona teen is crying foul after his high school barred him from running for prom queen. As CBS 5 is reporting, McClintock High School student...

There are many teachers and administrators trying to address the issue of LGBT bullying, but there are many others who still ignore it. The problem stems from the fact that, although there were always gay kids in school, it is relatively new for so many students to come out while in school.

I sat down with Kearian Giertz, fellow out teen Blake Danford, and heterosexual, LGBT-supportive Katy Hall, all friends and Fullerton Union High School seniors, to discuss what it is like to be out and gay in school, and the event that propelled them into the headlines.

In what has been described as a "groundbreaking" move by some in the LGBT blogosphere, a group of gay Mormon students from Brigham Young University (B...

I know you wish you weren't gay. I know you wish it wasn't happening to you. I know you feel hard done by. You'll learn in time that you don't really feel like that at all. Believe me when I tell you that you ultimately embrace who you are.

Classmates, parents and local advocates say they are outraged after a California teen was disqualified from an annual high school competition after ma...

Maverick Couch, a gay 16-year-old high school student in southwest Ohio, is suing his school district after the principal prohibited him from wearing ...

The anti-bullying movement has already produced a number of viral videos created by students, but none quite like this. In "Who Do You Think U R?"...

Fiona Apple may be well on her way to a musical comeback, but she's now making waves in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender blogosphere for an ...