Tag Archives: LGBT youth

BREAKING: White House Supports Bans On “Ex-Gay” Torture Of LGBT Youth

In December 2014 transgender teen Leelah Alcorn threw herself into traffic after writing a suicide note describing how her parents forced her to undergo “ex-gay” torture. Leelah’s death brought national attention to “ex-gay” torture therapy and spawned a petition to the White House which demands a federal ban on such abuses. After receiving more than 120,000 signatures, tonight White House …

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LOUISIANA: Lesbian High School Student Wins Battle To Wear Tuxedo To Her Prom

From the NCLR: Today, Carroll High School Principal Patrick Taylor and Monroe City School Board President Bishop Rodney McFarland Sr. contacted Claudetteia Love, who is being represented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), to inform her that she will be allowed to wear a tuxedo to her senior prom on April 24. Last week, Claudetteia, 17, was told …

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Tweet Of The Day – Cyndi Lauper

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LOUSIANA: Lesbian High School Student Told She Can’t Wear Tuxedo To Her Prom

Via the Monroe News-Star: Carroll High School senior Claudetteia Love, an openly gay student and top academic scholar, won’t attend the school’s prom this year because the school won’t allow her to wear a tuxedo. The school says it’s simply a dress code, but Love said the school’s prohibition is more about her sexual orientation than her fashion choices. Friday, …

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Launched: Indiana Youth Group GoFundMe

The GoFundMe donation drive for Memories Pizza closed at $846K and donation drive for Washington state florist Barronelle Stutzman stands at $95K. But the good guys have responded with donation drives for Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Fund, which at this writing stands at $38K, and for the Indiana Youth Group, which stands at nearly $23K.

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LAUNCHED: #Pizza4Equality

Activist Scott Wooledge has launched #Pizza4Equality, which has already raised $18K for Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Fund for homeless LGBT kids. Here’s the GoFundMe page.

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IOWA: Senate Votes To Bans “Ex-Gay” Torture, But Bill Will Likely Fail In House

Via the Des Moines Register: Iowa mental health professionals would be banned from trying to change the sexual orientation of gay patients younger than 18 under a bill approved on a straight party line vote Tuesday by the Iowa Senate. Senate File 334 was passed 26-24. All Democrats voted in favor. All Republicans voted no. The bill now heads to …

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OREGON: House Votes Overwhelmingly To Ban “Ex-Gay” Torture Of Minors

Via the Associated Press: The Oregon House has voted to outlaw a therapy that purports to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of young people. The bill would make it illegal for social workers or licensed mental health professionals such as psychologists or psychiatrists to practice what’s called conversion therapy on children younger than 18. Laws banning the therapy …

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Cyndi Lauper: The FRC Wants Homeless LGBT Kids Excluded From Federal Act

Via press release from Cyndi Lauper: Can you believe that there are people actively working to leave youth out in the cold? Don’t they realize it’s just going to push us to work even harder to protect our kids?! The Family Research Council is one of those groups. Their target: a clause in the the Runaway and Homeless Youth and …

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Trans Teen Lands Reality Show

Via the Hollywood Reporter: TLC is becoming the latest network to explore transgender life. The cable network has handed out a straight-to-series order for All That Jazz, a docuseries following 14-year-old transgender activist Jazz Jennings, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The 11-episode series will feature Jennings — dubbed “The New Face of Transgender Youth” — in her daily life, juggling …

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BERLIN: Court Fines Family For Trying To Force 15 Year-Old Gay Boy Into Marriage

Via the Associated Press: A Berlin court has fined three Lebanese men on allegations they seized a 15-year-old relative against his will in what he says was an attempt to force him into marriage because he’s gay. State Court spokesman Tobias Kaehne said Thursday the boy’s father and two uncles were each fined 1,350 euros ($1,430), or 90 days in …

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OKLAHOMA: Sally Kern’s “Ex-Gay” Torture Bill Dies Without Coming To A Vote

Via press release from NCLR: This afternoon, a bill introduced to the Oklahoma State House by Representative Sally Kern that would legalize anti-LGBT therapy died without coming to a vote. The defeat follows months of extensive grassroots organizing by national and state organizations working in coalition to educate parents and families about the ineffective and harmful practices of conversion therapy …

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Hate Groups: Keep Your Kids Home On This Year’s Anti-Bullying Day Of Silence

A coalition of hate groups today issued their annual call for parents to keep their kids out of school on the coming anti-bullying Day Of Silence. If you have school age children, contact your administration as soon as possible to ask this specific question: Will you be permitting students to refuse to speak in class on the Day of Silence? …

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COLORADO: House Passes “Ex-Gay” Ban

The battle in the state Senate is expected to be tough.

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REPORT: Mob Stones Gay Youth To Death In Jamaica, Video Posted To Social Media

Gay Star News reports: An angry mob stoned a young, allegedly gay man to death in Jamaica and filmed themselves hurling rocks at his head. The video of the murder of the alleged gay youth, believed to be aged around 19 to 21, has gone viral on social media after being posted last week. It shows the young man dressed …

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COLORADO: “Ex-Gay” Torture Ban Advances In State House Committee

From the Associated Press: Colorado mental health professionals would be barred from practicing gay conversation therapy with minors under a bill given initial approval Friday by the state House. The House advanced the bill on an unrecorded voice vote. A final vote this week could send the proposal to the more conservative Senate, where its chances were less clear. The …

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Producers Of The Fosters Defend Kiss Between Show’s 13 Year-old Characters

Via TheWrap: “If people want to judge it I think maybe they should watch and see how carefully, delicately and chastely it was handled,” co-creator Peter Paige tells TheWrap. ABC Family’s “The Fosters” drew both praise and criticism this week for a daring gay kiss scene between two 13-year-old male characters. But, the show’s creators said they were merely staying …

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HomoQuotable – Noah Michelson

“From Grindr profiles that demand ‘masc only’ to men like [Russell] Tovey who think their masculinity — however manufactured, however antithetical to who they truly were when they landed on this planet — is what makes them marketable or desirable, our obsession with what it means to be a man and what it means to fall short of that is …

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CHARLOTTE: Pastor Flip Benham Screams “Pervert” After Trans Teen Uses Restroom

This happened tonight during the LGBT rights debate. Matt Comer reports at Q Notes: qnotes has received two reports of confrontations of transgender people using the government center’s bathrooms, including one confrontation in which anti-LGBT street preacher Flip Benham, once convicted of stalking a local abortion doctor, confronted a 17-year-old transgender girl. Olivia, 17, told qnotes she went to use …

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Inside An “Ex-Gay” Torture Camp

Vice reports: Regardless of a nationwide battle toward the acceptance of same­-sex marriage and equal rights for gay people, conversion therapy is still a problem, and it’s being practiced every single day in the United States and throughout the world. In this special report, VICE gets exclusive access to one of the hundreds of gay-conversion-therapy organizations, groups, and sessions in …

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