Tag Archives: LGBT youth

PhoboQuotable – Tony Perkins

“Some homosexuals may recognize intuitively that their same-sex attractions are abnormal–yet they have been told by the homosexual movement, and their allies in the media and the educational establishment, that they are ‘born gay’ and can never change. This and not society’s disapproval may create a sense of despair that can lead to suicide. “The most important thing that Christians …

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Dan Savage To White House: Fuck You

“Fuck you, you pack of co-opting cowards. Seriously. You can do a more than offer hope. You have the power to make it better. Right now. Suspend enforcement of DADT. Don’t appeal the decision by a federal judge that declared DADT unconstitutional. Stop defending DOMA in court. Keep your promises. Make it better. And if you’re not going to keep …

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Gay Comics – It Gets Better

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At San Francisco’s Youth Suicide Vigil

Video by talented filmmaker Sean Chapin. Get a tissue.

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Carl Siciliano On LGBT Teen Suicides

At the Ali Forney Center’s annual fundraising dinner on Thursday, executive director Carl Siciliano spoke passionately about the recent rash of LGBT youth suicides and the mission of his organization to create safe spaces for queer kids attempting to escape hopeless (and often brutal) home situations. Watch this. After his speech, Carl dropped a bit of a bombshell. Last year …

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Sassy Gay Friend – It Gets Better

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NEW YORK: Hundreds Stage “Homophobia Kills” Die-In At Grand Central Terminal

Paul Schindler reports at Gay City News: Several hundred LGBT New Yorkers gathered at Grand Central Terminal during evening rush hour on Friday, October 8 to conduct what organizers called a “Flash Mob: Homophobia Kills Die-In” in the center of the main concourse of the nation’s busiest transit hub. Several minutes after 6, activist Alan Bounville brought his fingers to …

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Buck Angel – It Gets Better

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Story Of Prom-Denied Gay Mississippi Teen Constance McMillen To Be TV Movie

The life story of Constance McMillan, the lesbian Mississippi high school student who was banned from her prom, will be made into a television movie. One of the rare cases where the bullying led to a happy ending — the story of rural Mississipi lesbian high school student Constance McMillen who successfully sued the local school district for discrimination — …

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NYC Gay Men’s Chorus: It Gets Better

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HomoQuotable – Carl Siciliano

“I dream of a day where every gay youth in our country will have access to safe spaces, where no gay kid will live more than 100 miles from a space where LGBT youth can go to find community and support. But the creation of these life-saving spaces will require the passionate commitment and attention of the adult LGBT community. …

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“Ex-Gay” Group Exodus International Ends Opposition To Day Of Silence

Citing the recent spate of suicides among LGBT youth, the “ex-gays” at Exodus International announced yesterday that they were ending their opposition to the Day Of Silence, an annual student-led protest of the bullying of queer kids. “All the recent attention to bullying helped us realize that we need to equip kids to live out biblical tolerance and grace while …

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Jake Shears – It Gets Better

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Matt Barber: Gay Vultures Are Picking The Bones Of Dead Queer Children

“As Rahm Emanuel famously said: ‘You never let a serious crisis go to waste. It’s an opportunity to do things you could not do before.’ It makes me physically ill to watch as the HRC and other ‘gay’ militants lick their chops and rub their hands together over the tragic suicides of these troubled, sexually confused young men. Before they …

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Dan Savage Fires Back

“To the angry folks: I admit that IGBP doesn’t do the impossible. It doesn’t solve the problem of anti-gay bullying, everywhere, all at once, forever. The point of the videos is to give despairing kids in impossible situations a little thing called hope. The point is to let them know that things do get better. For some people things get …

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PREDICTABLE: Navel-Gazing Over-Intellectualizing Queer Theorists Attack Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better”

At almost the moment that Dan Savage shared his idea for helping LGBT youth, I began pondering the inevitable backlash from the queer theorists who relish attacking any project (no matter how innovative, effective, or sincere) merely because it came from a member of the “patriarchal ageist classist gay white cis-male privileged ruling class.” I’ve read a few such predictable …

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Rutgers Student Paper Denounces “Media Exploitation” Of Clementi Suicide

Rutgers University’s Daily Targum has published an editorial denouncing the media frenzy around the suicide of student Tyler Clementi, arguing that gay activists have turned his death into a “cause based on false pretenses.” It is disappointing that everyone from news to celebrities picked up the story. Actress Brittany Snow and actor Neil Patrick-Harris are just two of the many …

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PhoboQuotable – Linda Harvey

“In some young lives come the bullies. They are a part of life, especially for boys. But for the young person with same-sex attractions, this is the final straw where they feel totally trapped, with internal feelings they have been carefully taught ‘cannot be changed’ on the one hand, and harsh peer rejection on the other. Yes, it looks hopeless …

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Ellen DeGeneres On Bullying

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Tim Gunn – It Gets Better

I’ll probably lay off the celebrity clips a bit after this, but this one from Project Runway’s Tim Gunn relates his actual suicide attempt at the age of 17.

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