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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.
Latest Update on Young Adult
02/06/13
The Boy Scouts of America's national executive board has delayed a decision on whether to lift its longstanding ban on gay scouts and leaders. BSA said Wednesday the organization will take action on the resolution at its national meeting in May.
02/06/13
The Brown Student Health Insurance Plan will cover 14 different sexual reassignment surgery procedures starting in August, Director of Insurance and Purchasing Services Jeanne Hebert confirmed in an email to The Herald.
02/06/13
In today’s economy workers should not have to choose between keeping their jobs and caring for a sick partner, spouse, or child.
02/06/13
When most politicians push same-sex marriage, they talk about equal rights. Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee has a different selling point: competitiveness.
02/06/13
UCLA campus police have released a sketch of a man they say was involved in an anti-gay hate crime against a student.
02/06/13
Just days before marching bands and beauty queens take part in the annual Tet parade, the exclusion of a gay group from the event is headed to court.
02/06/13
The Lake County School Board could create new rules that would keep a local Gay-Straight Alliance student group from forming at a middle school.
02/06/13
A children's book that implies being gay is a reversible condition caused by childhood sexual abuse has been submitted to the Supreme Court as part of an amicus brief in support of California's same-sex marriage ban.