Youth Today
All posts tagged "LGBTQ"
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1.9KOpinionHIV Tried Me. It Lost: My First Year In College
“The pediatrician said you need to come to the office immediately,” my mom quivered over the phone. Hearing “immediately” commanded my heart...
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2.3KOpinionTransgender Issue Highlights That We Can’t Tolerate Differences
In the seconds following President Donald Trump’s ban of transgender individuals from the U.S. military, landmines of outrage and...
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Grants
Community Development, LGBTQ Issues, Family Planning and Social Justice Organization Capacity-Building Grants
Subject: Community Development, LGBTQ, Family Planning, Social Activism | Deadline: July 25, 2017
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Growing Up LGBT in America
The Human Rights Campaign conducted exhaustive surveys of the largest known sample of LGBT youth ever (over 10,000) from across the country...
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LGBTQ Services and Outreach Community Program Grants in the Northwest
Subject: LGBTQ, LGBTQ Youth, Community Development | Deadline: June 30, 2017
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2.7KOpinionBringing 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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2.7KOpinionSafe 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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1.5KOpinionBathroom 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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3.6KNewsSupporting 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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18.7KMagazinesBokeh 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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68.8KMagazinesBokeh 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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1.6KEditorialNot 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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5.5KNewsWhat’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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2.3KNewsNew 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...
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Grants
LGBTQ Youth Advocacy Project Support Grants
Subject: LGBTQ Youth, Social Justice, Civic Engagement, Minority Youth | Deadline: Ongoing
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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...
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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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2.6KNewsA 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...
