TEL AVIV — Israel’s popular TV host, Assi Azar, has volunteered for this year’s annual gay youth organization campaign to encourage LGBT teens to be who they are, reports GayAsiaNews.com. The purpose of the new campaign is to show LGBT youth that they have someone to turn to, and to expose them to the variety of…
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has approved a resolution condemning the Boy Scouts of America’s (BSA) decision to allow openly-gay Scouts, and called for the removal of all pro-equality BSA executives and board leaders. Human Rights Campaign (HRC) president Chad Griffin, who was raised Southern Baptist, called out the SBC resolution as affirming and promoting…
Young people between the ages of 13 and 24 represent more than a quarter of new HIV infections each year (26 percent) and most of these youth living with HIV (60 percent) are unaware they are infected, according to a Vital Signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The most-affected young…
As the year draws to a close, bullying in school and the ever-rising incidence of LGBT teen suicides continue to garner national headlines. The two closely linked issues will likely continue to command significant media coverage in the upcoming presidential election year. But history will proclaim 2011 as the year American lesbians, gays, bisexuals and…
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio – A 15-year-old boy, will serve 90 days in a juvenile detention center for the assault of a gay student that gained national attention after a cell phone video of the attack went viral on the Internet. The Columbus Dispatch reported that Levi Sever, 15, was sentenced last week after previously pleading guilty…
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students will be in good hands at Georgetown University after former National Football League Commissioner Paul J. Tagliabue and his wife donated $1 million to create a new program to assist LGBT students. The money will start a new LGBT program called the Tagliabue Initiative for LGBT Life: Fostering Formation…
A gay student at Wigwam Creek Middle School is seeking public action to help put an end to verbal harassment and bullying at his school after the districts superintendent has refused to take action on the matter. Pleas for long-term bullying solutions from the boy’s family and LGBT support groups including Gays and Lesbians United…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has called on school leaders in Tennessee’s Monroe County to stop subverting the formation of a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) at Sequoyah High School in Madisonville. This follows the latest incident in Monroe County, Tenn. where, not only did Principal Maurice Moser deny his school the right to have…
