All posts tagged "youth"
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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...
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Queer on Campus
It was not so long ago that a gay-friendly campus was one harboring a frat house that would allow a guy with an earring. Today,...
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Tyra Banks interviews transgender Elementary School children [video]
”When I was a little baby, I always used to be a girl. But my mom and dad didn’t know that. So, I couldn’t talk...
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Conservatives, Fox News smear GLSEN & Obama appointee Kevin Jennings as promoting fisting, swallowing & underage sex [video]
Below is a peek at this week’s sickening blanket of socially conservative, anti-gay rhetoric aimed at the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network and the head...
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Finding Hope
Watch a random episode of The Simpsons and you may well hear a panicked Helen Lovejoy -- the reverend's wife -- screaming, ''Won't somebody please...
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Amazing Tyra Banks show: Ridiculous exorcists & their convert — a very confused 16-year-old gay boy [video]
” came out…. no longer gay, but it’s still a process that I have to go through to be fully delivered. See,...
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The Kids Are All Right
It's been about six months since Andrew Barnett was appointed executive director of the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League -- though he's been filling the...
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Sun Day
Click for 165 pics from the 2009 Youth Pride Day in DC There was something for everyone at Youth Pride Day at P Street Beach...
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Strange Fruit
The recent suicides by hanging of two 11-year-old boys in response to anti-gay bullying -- Carl Walker-Hoover in Massachusetts on April 6 and Jaheem Herrera...
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Calling All Kids
P Street Beach isn't really a beach, but that won't keep organizers of Youth Pride Day from making some waves with this year's lineup at...
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Pulling Out the PFLAG Stops
Washington is home to many national GLBT organizations working for equality on nearly every front. When you look at the lineup for one organization's upcoming...
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Barnett Takes the Helm
The board of directors at the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL) announced Wednesday, Feb. 25, the appointment of Andrew Barnett as the executive director...
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Rick Warren’s West Hollywood stunt fails, Saddleback removes anti-gay language for ‘clarity’ [video]
”He kind of just wanted me to know that his church had given a lot of money to people with AIDS, and not to believe...
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Lending an Ear
In the District, people talk about HIV/AIDS -- a lot. Of course, with a statistical profile that puts D.C. on par with sub-Saharan Africa when...
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Playing Out
At James Madison High School in Vienna, Va., being the gay member of an all-male swim team was ''rough'' enough, says Dan Martinelli. The feelings...
