Young Adult

Your resource for news and information which features or directly impacts young adults; Frequent topics include K-12 schools and higher education, young adult media, young adult advocates, coming out, family and community acceptance, youth homelessness, and student advocacy including Gay Straight Alliances and safe schools initiatives.

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President of Boy Scouts to USA Today: Let in gay youth
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
7:16pm

USA Today published an op-ed by Wayne Perry, the President of the Boy Scouts of America, in which he urges the 1,400 voting members gathering in Dallas to vote to allow gay youth to be a part of Scouting.

08/18/11
Lutherans Vow to Prevent Bullying | 08/18/11

08/09/11
Archbishop of Albany to hold Mass at LGBT Catholic Conference; Vatican Investigates LGBT-friendly Catholic Community in Mexico | 08/09/11

08/05/11
Gay-Straight Alliance Founded by Nikki Peet Allowed to Remain at Flour Bluff High School | 08/05/11
07/29/11
Stories to Watch: 1 in 4 Lesbian and Gay Youth are Homeless According to New Massachusetts Study | 07/29/11

07/27/11
The New York Times Examines Young People and Marriage Equality in New York | 07/27/11

06/24/11
LGBT Undocumented "Unsung Heroes" Show the World Where LGBT and Immigrant Advocacy Intersect | 06/24/11
06/13/11
Tracy Morgan to meet with GLAAD, LGBT Youth and Families | 06/13/11

06/13/11
Webby Awards to Honor Dan Savage for It Gets Better Project | 06/13/11

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Hundreds lobby for gay rights at Texas Capitol
03/12/13

Hundreds of protesters demonstrated at the Texas Capitol on Monday, demanding equality for lesbians, gays and the transgendered, including the right to marry.

Lake School Board votes 3-2 to allow extracurricular clubs in middle schools
03/12/13

Lake County School Board members, in a narrow 3-2 vote, Monday night moved to keep middle-school campuses open to extracurricular clubs after two hours of comments mostly from supporters of a Gay-Straight Alliance at Carver Middle School in Leesburg.

Minnesota House: 'Gay lifestyle' remark by legislator causes outcry (w/ video)
03/12/13

A vocal opponent of gay marriage sparked an audible outcry on the Minnesota House floor Monday, March 11, when he used a procedural tactic to introduce a close friend who left the "gay lifestyle."

Queen Elizabeth 'Stands Up' for Gay Rights Without Mentioning Them
03/12/13

Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday backed a new commonwealth charter for the United Kingdom, which some are saying indicated the monarch's support for LGBT equality

Appeal by New Mexico Photographer in Gay Bias Case Is Heard
03/12/13

In a case that tests anti-discrimination protection for gays, a religious rights group told the New Mexico Supreme Court on Monday that a photographer who declined to shoot the commitment ceremony of a lesbian couple was exercising her rights to free speech and artistic freedom.

Gay man chosen to lead U.S. Reconstructionist rabbis
03/12/13

The newly elected leader of the Reconstructionist movement’s rabbinic association will be the first openly gay man to lead a national rabbinic association in the United States.

Colorado House Advances Civil Unions For Gay Couples
03/12/13

Civil unions for same-sex couples advanced in the Colorado House on Monday after sometimes heated and emotional arguments for the bill from gay Democratic lawmakers.

Chinese Parents Fight for Gay Children's Marriage Rights
03/12/13

Of all the ways a son can be disrespectful to his parents, argued the ancient Chinese philosopher Mencius, the worst is to have no offspring.

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