Youth Today

Bringing Transgender Justice into Services-based Organizations

Growing up transgender is never easy. Trans youth face high rates of violence, with more than three-quarters of trans students feeling unsafe...

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Opinion

Safe Spaces: Supportive Environments Are Crucial for Transgender Youth

The cover of the January 2017 issue of National Geographic was a first for the historic magazine, though at first glance it...

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Opinion

Bathroom Bills and Trans Youth

As a queer Jewish teenager, I have the uncommon privilege of having relationships with people between 20 and 50 years older than...

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News

Supporting Those Who Support Homeless Youth

He brought candy to that first meeting at the Covenant House homeless shelter in Manhattan a few days after Halloween — a...

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Magazines

Bokeh Focus website: Youth photographers and writers

Focusing the spotlight on creative youth. Explore Bokeh Focus' website and its always growing collections of photo essays, stories and videos by...

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Magazines

Bokeh Focus: Curated Instagram collection

Curated Instagram galleries and videos. Explore @bokeh_focus Instagram photos from youth sharing their unique perspectives on the world around them. Curated by...

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Editorial

Not Enough Letters? About Our March-April 2017 Print Edition

Throughout our March-April 2017 print publication, which has a cover package of stories focused on LGBT youth, we have used the acronym...

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News

What’s Next for Gay and Transgender Students?

Advocates question how the new White House will impact recent gains.

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“Like Walking Through a Hailstorm” – Discrimination against LGBT Youth in US Schools

This new report from Human Rights Watch uses data and information gained from interviews with over 500 students, teachers, administrators, parents, service...

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New Report Shows LGBT Students Face Ongoing Discrimination

Despite some progress, schools are still a hostile environment for many gay and transgender youth in the U.S., according to a new...

Grants

LGBTQ Youth Advocacy Project Support Grants

Subject: LGBTQ Youth, Social Justice, Civic Engagement, Minority Youth | Deadline: Ongoing

Opinion

Here’s a Collaborative Way to End Homelessness Among LGBT Youth

The primary reason for all youth homelessness may be related to family conflict, but for LGBT youth sexual orientation and/or gender identity...

Editorial

Youth Today Opposes Champion of Inequality

The publisher of Youth Today, the Center for Sustainable Journalism, has had a long and meaningful relationship with our host institution in...

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News

A Call for Action in OST as Gay Teens Face Violence, Many Other Risks

About 8 percent of high school students are lesbian, gay or bisexual, according to the first nationwide survey asking teens about their...

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Unjust: How the Broken Criminal Justice System Fails LGBTQ Youth

This new report from the Center for American Progress' Movement Advancement Project shows how LGBTQ youth are vastly over-represented in both the...

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News

Discrimination Lands Many LGBT Youth in the Justice System, New Report Says

Stigma and discrimination, unsafe schools and discriminatory policing drive lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth into the justice system where they...

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News

CDC Finds LGB Students at Greater Risk of Bullying, Sexual Violence

Collective action is needed to ensure the safety of lesbian, gay and bisexual students, who experience violence and other health risks at...

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Health Risks Among Sexual Minority Youth

This new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses the first nationally representative study of U.S. lesbian, gay and...

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Educational Exclusion: Drop Out, Push Out, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

The Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) examines the ways in which school systems disproportionately discipline LGBTQ youth while also failing...

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