All posts tagged "teens"
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Youth Pride Sponsors
Gold DC Office of Human Rights HRC SMYAL Silver La Clinica del Pueblo The Trevor Project Whitman Walker Health Bronze Andromeda Transcultural Health Cherry Fund...
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From the Youth Pride Alliance Board of Directors
From Youth Pride Day 2010 Welcome to the 15th Annual Youth Pride Day! As we stand in Dupont Circle at the site of the original...
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Speakers & Performers
Saturday, April 30, 2011Dupont CircleNoon to 5 p.m. Subject to change SPEAKERS Franklin Johnson, Treasurer / Youth Pride Alliance Gustavo F. Velasquez / DC Office...
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Youth Pride Alliance
Who We Are Youth Pride Alliance, now in its 15th year, was founded in 1996 by Christopher Dyer. Our primary function is the annual production...
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Talk of the Town
Unless your senior prom was the highlight of your high school years, you might figure Constance McMillen fared well. In exchange for essentially being tricked...
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A Bully Year
For young LGBT people, or simply those perceived to be, 2010 was a chilling year as headline after headline reported on those of them who...
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The DC LGBT Homeless Youth Crisis [video]
In the past few months, Washington D.C. has seen a rise in the number homeless LGBT youth. Metro Weekly's Justin Stewart talks with several locals...
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SMYAL Youth address recent LGBTQ suicides [video]
Metro Weekly reporter Justin Stewart talks with Andrew Barnett, executive director of D.C.'s Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL) and several SMYAL youths about the...
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Federal Questions
Discussion of LGBT bullying and youth suicide has led to increased efforts by organizations and individuals to eliminate – or, at least, lessen – both....
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Helping Hands
''It has been unbelievably painful to have these kind of daily reminders,'' Eliza Byard, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Student Education Network (GLSEN),...
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Blowback on Bullying
Every 18 minutes, one person ''completes'' suicide. ''We use the word 'completed' rather than 'committed' because committed makes it sound like a crime and that...
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Empowered in Mount Pleasant
On June 8 La Clinica del Pueblo welcomed members of the local LGBT community to see the site that will house its youth drop-in center,...
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Booths & Vendors
Youth Pride Day 2010 Saturday, April 24thRock Creek Park / 23rd & P Street, NW12 p.m. to 5 p.m. As of press time, in alphabetical...
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Speakers & Performers
Saturday, April 24th12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Rock Creek Park23rd & P Streets NWAs of press time. Subject to change. SPEAKERS Andrew BarnettExecutive Director, SMYAL...
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Letter from the Youth Pride Alliance Board of Directors
For over a decade we have been honored to host one of the few pride festivals dedicated to celebrating the dignity and courage of all...
