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...
I see my participation in the Day of Silence as an act of my Christian faith. My participation is guided by my favorite verse, Colossians 3:14, which reads, "But most of all, let love guide your life."
The music video for "Invincible" includes videos in which our fans hold up signs telling their stories of pain, fear, victimization, and, ultimately, self-esteem, joy, and triumph. It is imperative that we share our stories so that people enduring bullying or self-hatred know they're not alone.
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.
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.
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?"...
My mission is to empower young people in the LGBT community to be courageous, so that they can make the right choices and find their own voice.
It wasn't long ago that I was in the same position as many Just Left the Closet members. Growing up, what I needed more than anything were real friends and open conversation. That is exactly what we want JLTC to be: a place to make friends and have open conversation.
In addition to identifying their race, gender and ethnicity, incoming college freshmen at University of California schools may also be asked to identi...
Every morning, Brittany Geldert stepped off the bus and bolted through the double doors of Fred Moore Middle School, her nerves already on high alert,...
-- "Pariah," writer-director Dee Rees' feature debut, achieves a difficult, intriguing balance. It's at once raw and dreamlike, specific to a particu...
Each day we have the ability to transform lives, to speak out against injustice, to be "upstanders" for positive change. Why do we remain silent?
A Tennessee private school's decision to ban any mention of homosexuality among its student body is raising more than a few eyebrows among parents. ...
For her senior portrait, 17-year-old lesbian student Ceara Sturgis posed in a tuxedo, going against the school's requirement that girls wear dresses. ...
This week I went to a high school in Chicago and spoke to their Gay-Straight Alliance about my experiences as a gay man, particularly coming out and the heaven and hell surrounding that ordeal.
A new European public service announcement is tackling the issue of anti-gay teen bullying in a more direct, detailed way then ever before. Produc...
My son Enrique was 14. He had come out at school and had been speed-dating middle school boys that fall. "Dating" mostly meant texting or going to a movie. The turnover of boyfriends seemed innocent... but Tom was different.
These kids are not getting bullied; they are getting mugged. If the same violent incidents occurred on the subway or at the grocery store, they would be considered mugging, and the perpetrator would be arrested for assault.
I do not believe that straight and gender-conforming people are any less caring or are any less concerned about our youth. Yet there is too little said and done to save the lives of LGBT youth.
I know how you feel -- six years ago, I was where you are now. I felt isolated, scared, damaged; I thought the only way out was by ending my life. I'd been hiding who I was for years by that point.
Appearances do matter -- public appearances, the kind that a confused and lonely kid in Russia or Kansas or your neighborhood might see. "It gets better" is a nice but passive sentiment; come out, go out and help make it better.
