lgbtq youth
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Don’t Forget About the Children Suffering in Silence
“I can’t go home. I can’t go back there,” they stated emphatically, taking breaths between each word. “If I am forced to go home I may die, literally,” a mentee said to me in tears over the phone. They had received notification that they would be forced to vacate their college dormitory within 72 hours,…
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Worst Father Ever Allegedly Abandons Son on the Side of the Highway Over Concerns About His Sexual Orientation
During a week in which future NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade made headlines for demonstrating his love and support for his child Zion, on the other end of the spectrum we have Evenaud Julmeus of Haines City, Fla., who did the unthinkable when he allegedly abandoned a boy on the side of a highway…
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In the Donald Trump Era, People Ages 18-34 Are Less Accepting of LGBTQ Community, GLAAD Finds
Conventional wisdom goes: The young will lead when it comes to matters of tolerance and acceptance regardless of race, color, creed—or sexual orientation. But according to GLAAD, that conventional wisdom has been turned on its head, and Donald Trump is to blame. GLAAD’s fifth annual Accelerating Acceptance Index, conducted by the Harris polling firm, found…
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‘It Gets Better’: The Lie We Tell LGBTQ Youths
Editor’s note: For Pride Month, The Root and Jezebel are teaming up once again for JezeRoot, with content by writers of color around everyday life for LGBTQ individuals. Recently, I went to an LGBTQ “It Gets Better” panel at a comic convention. The panelists, one of whom is a good friend, talked about how things…
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How Police Fail to 'Protect and Serve' LGBTQ Communities of Color
Police killings of unarmed black men and women—such as this summer’s shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile—have highlighted the need, long recognized by racial-justice advocates, for a more critical examination of the ways in which police fail to “protect and serve” some of our country’s most marginalized communities. These killings have forwarded a national…