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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GLAAD thanks the many tireless advocates working to bring change to the #BoyScouts
Friday, May 24, 2013
3:01pm

After Thursday's historic vote, GLAAD would like to thank these incredible and tireless advocates for their working in helping to the BSA's anti-gay policies

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

06/09/11
Maine Legislature Upholds Protections for Transgender People; House Passes Anti-Bullying Legislation | 06/09/11

05/23/11
The New York Times Asks LGBT Teenagers to Share Their Stories | 05/23/11

05/20/11
Web-Filter Company Announces it Will Modify Software to Allow Access to LGBT Content in Schools | 05/20/11

05/20/11
The Power Within: Anti-Bullying Comic Book Raising Funds To Spread Positive Message | 05/20/11

“Sometimes you have to be your own hero.” Writer Charles "Zan" Christensen and artist Mark Brill have joined forces

05/20/11
UPDATE: Widespread Support for "Glee" & GLAAD's Action Against FOX Houston's "Is TV Too Gay?" Segment | 05/20/11

05/03/11
GLAAD Calls on FOX Houston to Apologize for Broadcasting Extremist Views in Response to "Glee" Anti-Bullying Episode | 05/03/11

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Minn. Committees To Vote On Marriage Equality Bill
03/12/13

Committees in the Minnesota House and Senate are poised to vote on — and likely pass — bills to legalize same-sex marriage Tuesday.

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.

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