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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Faith groups react to the Boy Scouts vote to drop the ban on gay Scouts
Thursday, May 23, 2013
8:08pm

Within moments of the announcement that, by a 61% margin, the Boy Scouts of America would be dropping its ban on gay scouts, denominations and faith groups offered their reactions.

09/29/11
Homophobic App Claims to Tell Mothers Whether Their Sons Are Gay | 09/29/11

A new app available in the Android Market called “Is My Son Gay?” targets mothers and claims that by asking 20 questions, it can determine their son’s sexual orientation.

09/28/11
Trans Youth Leading the Conversation | 09/28/11

A closer look at a wonderful piece CNN aired on transgender youth.

09/26/11
Lady Gaga Takes Bullying to National Stage | 09/26/11

Lady Gaga spoke with President Obama about bullying, a day after she dedicated a song to a 14 year-old who died by suicide.

09/26/11
American Federation of Teachers works with GLAAD to prevent anti-LGBT bullying | 09/26/11

Many young people are bullied daily in classrooms and school communities around the country.

09/15/11
Join Dustin Lance Black, Neil Giuliano: Sharing Their Stories with the Homecoming Project | 09/15/11

An invitation to share your story with the Homecoming Project where LGBT role models return to their high schools to speak with students.

09/07/11
Los Angeles Times Publishes Moving Story About the Friendship Between Catholic Nun and Transgender Woman | 09/07/11

09/07/11
Carl Siciliano Speaks with Sojourners about LGBT Youth and Homelessness | 09/07/11

09/02/11
GLAAD Reviews ABC's "My (Extra)Ordinary Family: Transgender" | 09/02/11

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Insight: For U.S. high court, California justices wrote prologue on marriage
03/14/13

Looking for clues about the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court vote on gay marriage? Check out California's past.

San Francisco Mormon Church Reaches Out to Gay Community
03/14/13

In the 18 months since Mitch Mayne became executive secretary of his San Francisco Mormon church, attendance has expanded from an unlikely community: gay and lesbian people and their supporters.

Marriage Equality Bill Survives GOP Moves To Block
03/14/13

The bill to allow gay weddings in Minnesota has survived several moves by Senate Republicans to block it.

Lawyer David Boies expects Supreme Court to uphold marriage equality
03/14/13

A well-known attorney due to ask the U.S. Supreme Court this month to strike down a California law banning same-sex marriage says the high court may very well present a united front in favor of gay and lesbian rights.

Will justices’ diverse families play a role in gay marriage cases at Supreme Court?
03/14/13

With their Ivy League pedigrees and East Coast addresses, Supreme Court justices often are rightly described as unrepresentative of the nation. But in one area, the justices look a lot like the rest of America.

Schools On Notice To Figure Out How To Handle Transgender Athletes
03/13/13

If high schools (and even junior high and middle schools) haven’t yet thought about how they would handle a situation in which a transgender student wanted to play a sport, they’d better start.

OP-ED: The right to transgender health care
03/13/13

When I first came out as a transgender man in the mid 1990s, I quickly realized that I would have to pay out-of-pocket for the health care I needed.

Obama Cannot Imagine A State's Marriage Equality Ban Being Constitutional
03/13/13

President Barack Obama said he could not imagine a circumstance in which a state banning gay marriage was legal, wading into an issue he initially said should be left to the states.

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