All posts tagged "youth"
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SMYAL to host discussion panel on factors leading to LGBT youth suicides
The Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL), the D.C. organization advocating for sexual-minority youth, is partnering with ''1 Lyfe @ A Time'' to host a...
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Street Wise
Growing up in suburban Maryland, the most dangerous element in young Cyndee Clay's life may have been going to public school. Hers was a conservative...
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PFLAG and PFOX Debate MCPS Fliers on News Channel 8
The ongoing debate regarding distribution of fliers by the group Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) to students at Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), countered...
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Deal Reached After DOJ Joins Bullying Lawsuit
''I made change for kids that aren't strong enough to make change,'' Dylon Frei, an out gay student in the Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota,...
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Matthew Shepard’s father confronts Tennessee about teen suicides, bullying, hate crimes
Dennis Shepard, appeared at a press conference sponsored by the Tennessee Equality Project this week. He directed his comments toward parents about the need to...
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Another gay teen, Phillip Parker, commits suicide after bullying
A 14-year-old gay boy, Phillip Parker, took his own life on Friday. Reports are coming out that he was the focus of bullying at Gordonsville...
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Youth Protections Praised
Virginia's state Board of Juvenile Justice voted 5-1 Jan. 10 to include protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation in new rules governing residential facilities...
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Sex and Identity Symposium
History may be written by the victors, but some local college students are forgoing what may be written in their textbooks and pursuing educational opportunities...
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Girl Scouts confront request from boy who “identifies as girl”
”He’s been doing this since he was about 2 years old. He’s loved girl stuff, so we just let him dress how he wants, as...
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Spirited, But Not Yet Safe
On Oct. 20, many parts of Facebook and Twitter turned purple, as individuals, organizations, companies and even the White House changed their profile pictures and...
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Attacking Indifference
Washington residents, government agencies and community groups rallied at an Oct. 24 town hall to sound an alarm about problems facing ''black LGBTQI youth'' in...
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Another teacher’s Facebook comments about gay kids under scrutiny
”I do not condone bullying or harassment of any kind and I am very aware and saddened by the negative impact this type of behavior...
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Bullied gay teen, Jamie Hubley, blogged a painful goodbye before suicide
” was the kind of boy that loved everybody…. He couldn’t understand why everyone would be so cruel to him about something as simple as...
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Defense in Rutgers bullying case seeks access to Tyler Clementi’s computer documents
“There was no bias, no intimidation and there was no bullying done. Nor was there any bullying intended or bias intended.” Steven Altman, attorney for...
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True Sage
Caleb Laieski is determined. On Wednesday night, June 1, Laieski sat at a Dupont Circle coffee shop reviewing the day's meetings. It would have been...
