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.

10/01/10
How You Can Support the Families of Seth Walsh & Asher Brown | 10/01/10
09/28/10
Transgender Student Denied Homecoming Title by High School, But Still Finds Support | 09/28/10

09/24/10
Univ. of Rhode Island Administrators Acknowledge LGBT Discrimination on Campus, Pledge to Resolve | 09/24/10

09/21/10
Study Reveals High Level of Hardships for LGBT Students, Faculty & Staff at U.S. Colleges & Universities | 09/21/10

08/13/10
Degrassi's Transgender Teen Story Starts Conversations [Take Poll] | 08/13/10

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03/08/10
GLAAD Fellows Continue to Make Lasting Contributions | 03/08/10

Since 2000, GLAAD’s Fellowship Program has successfully allowed young, driven graduate students and recent post grad

02/25/10
Sassafras Lowrey's Kicked Out Anthology Shares Stories of LGBTQ Youth Homelessness | 02/25/10

International award-winning artist, former homeless youth, and former GLAAD Young Adult Media Fellow Sassafras L

09/28/09
Tyra Banks Show Features Story of Teen's Alarming Attempt to Turn Straight | 09/28/09

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COLUMN: A strong black voice for marriage equality
03/06/13

The amicus brief signed by more than 100 Republicans urging the Supreme Court to overturn Proposition 8 got a lot of attention last week. As well it should.

Iowa House GOP Seeks Marriage Equality Ban
03/06/13

Republicans are again proposing a change in the Iowa Constitution to ban gay marriage.

Council of Michigan Indian tribe OKs marriage for same-sex couples
03/06/13

A northern Michigan Indian tribal council has voted to recognize gay marriage. The Petoskey News-Review reports that the legislative body of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians made the decision Sunday.

Florida: 12 charged in connection with the hazing death of gay student
03/06/13

Twelve former members of Florida A&M’s university marching band have been charged with manslaughter over the death of a gay student – although the family say it wasn’t a hate crime.

OP-ED: Time for Illinois to pass marriage equality bill
03/06/13

Is marriage equality finally going to become a reality in Illinois?

Texas High School Pulls Gay Couple’s Photo From Yearbook For Being “Too Intimate”
03/06/13

A student at Brennan High School has started a petition after the yearbook supervisor pulled a picture of her and her girlfriend in what she believes is a case of discrimination.

Jewish group backs RI marriage equality bill
03/06/13

A Rhode Island Jewish organization has come out in support of gay marriage in the state.

Children as happy with gay parents - research
03/06/13

Children adopted by gay couples are just as happy as those placed with traditional heterosexual families, new research has confirmed. Family experts at Cambridge University say the study disproved the assumption held by some that homosexual couples are not as successful at parenting.

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