Topics :: GLBT youth

Indiana BMV Renews Fight Over Gay Youth Group Plates

Wednesday Jun 19, 2013
Indiana’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles is continuing its battle over specialty auto license plates for a group that counsels gay and lesbian youth.

LYRIC Seeks Funds for School Program

By Matthew S. Bajko | Wednesday Jun 5, 2013
Once a week during their elective class called leadership, the students at Everett and Buena Vista / Horace Mann, a K-8 school, are taught by a LYRIC staffer about LGBT topics.

Police in Israel Arrest 3 in Connection to Gay Youth Killings

Wednesday Jun 5, 2013
Israeli police say they have arrested three suspects in connection to the killing of two people at a gay youth center in Tel Aviv four years ago.

Is PFLAG Abandoning Kaitlyn?

Monday Jun 3, 2013
A local Florida chapter of PFLAG, Indian River County’s only gay rights group, released a statement distancing itself from the Kaitlyn Hunt case.

Promoting Pride

By John Riley | Friday May 31, 2013
In just a few days, Chris Obermeyer’s weeks of planning will come to fruition with Woodrow Wilson Senior High School becoming the first D.C. public high school to host its own version of Pride - in the school’s atrium during lunch on Wednesday, June 5.

Freshman Girl’s Parents Vow to Make Kaitlyn Hunt Pay

By Jason Parsley | Wednesday May 29, 2013
The parents of Kaitlyn Hunt’s 14-year-old freshman girlfriend, Jim and Laurie Smith, spoke out to CBS News 12 in what the news station acknowledged to be an "unprecedented" interview.

Are College Aid Forms Becoming More Gay Friendly?

By Brandon Ballenger | Thursday May 23, 2013
The 2014-2015 Free Application for Federal Student Aid, best known by its acronym FAFSA, will collect income and other information from a dependent student’s legal parents regardless of their marital status or gender.

Palm Beach County Students See Broward-Based Bullying Play

By Donald Cavanaugh | Friday May 10, 2013
Kim Williams, assistant director in the Department of Student Intervention Services in Palm Beach County School District, said she had seen the play in Broward and was so impressed that she asked if the students could bring it to Palm Beach.

Homes Sought for Foster Youth

By Seth Hemmelgarn | Friday May 10, 2013
May is National Foster Care Month, and Jill Jacobs, the head of an Oakland-based agency that works to find permanent, loving families for youth in the foster care system, says there are plenty of them who need support.

Schweitzer Fellows Help Boost LGBT Health Via Sex Education

By Les Spindle | Thursday Apr 11, 2013
Next month, UCLA grad students Alexander Martos and Jeffery Williams will wrap up their work with the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center, and take their LGBT sex ed curriculum to Cal State Northridge.