Written by Nigel Campbell | Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Tags: national gay and lesbian task force, survey, enda, gay youth, gay elderly, immigration reform 
While the fight for marriage equality certainly isn't over, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is already looking ahead to the next challenges our community will have to rally together to face.
The momentum in terms of marriage is unstoppable, but what about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act which serves to protect LGBT people in the work place? What about immigration reform so that LGBT binational couples aren't unjustly separated? Keeping LGBT youth safe? Making sure our elderly community members are protected and taken care of?
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Written by Instinct Staff | Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Tags: vassar, westboro baptist church, protest, raised, funds, ivy league whorehouse, the trevor project, lgbt, youth, bigotry
Westboro Baptist Church will be elated to know that it has helped funnel money to LGBT youth organization the Trevor Project! Thanks, Westboro!
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Written by Instinct Staff | Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Tags: sullivan high school, indiana, diana medley, teacher, nate walden, responds, homophobic, lgbt students, youth, supports, prom, traditional
Support for Sullivan, Indiana's LGBT students continues to reverberate across social networks where teacher Nate Walden has a special message for Diana Medley, the homophobic special ed teacher we told you about on Monday.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Monday, 04 February 2013
Tags: tyler clementi, rutgers, tyler clementi center, lgbt youth, bullying, cyberbullying
Rutgers University has combined its resources with the Tyler Clementi Foundation to form the Tyler Clementi Center.
The Center, named after the Rutgers freshman that took his own life after a private sexual encounter he shared with another man was broadcast across the internet without his consent, "will draw from academic disciplines across the university and throughout the nation to create new programs and approaches to address issues that confront young people – specifically vulnerable youth making the transition from home to college."
More after the jump.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Monday, 04 February 2013
Tags: bullying, studies, research, decreases, with age, it gets better, lgbt, youth, junior high, high school
The chances that a kid will be a victim of bullying decreases as they age, according to a new study published today in the journal Pediatrics. According to English researchers responsible for the report, bullying peaks at early adolescence and gradually peters out over the years.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Friday, 01 February 2013
Tags: san francisco 49ers, deny, making, it gets better, video, distance, appearance, dbags, dan savage, removes, super bowl, homophobia, lgbt youth
San Francisco 49ers, what's going on with you guys?! First the Chris Culliver gaffe and now some of you apparently wish you could take back your appearance in an "It Gets Better" video? This team is not doing its hometown proud this week.
SF 49ers have denied their participation in the "It Gets Better" video seen 'round the world. After reporters showed them the video and the players saw themselves mumble some words from a script, they apparently wanted to distance themselves from the project.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 24 January 2013
Tags: parramatta, australia, new south wales, twenty10, lgbt, youth organization, gay, asked, take down, signs, rediscover the river, festival, mayor, apologizes
Twenty10, an Australian LGBT youth group, hoped to lend a helping hand and listening ear to attendees of the Rediscover the River Festival in Parramatta, New South Wales. But after festival organizers noticed the gay-positive signage Twenty10's plan to support LGBT-youth were squashed.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Tags: wes breedwell, hostage calm, rocketown, nashville, music venue, christianity, outreach, center, youth, fired, job, wear, support same sex marriage, t shirt
Rocketown, a Nashville music venue and Christian outreach center, is under fire itself for giving the pink slip to one of its employees for wearing a pro-gay shirt to work.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 17 January 2013
Tags: parents, leave, the joy of gay sex, book, guide, son's, pillow, coming out, what's your instinct, lgbt, youth
Many gay youth wake up worried about how they're going to get through the day, but some wake up to quite the different situation, apparently. A lack of sex education specified for LGBT youth and admitted ignorance lead what a lot of the Internet has labeled "the coolest parents, like, ever" to leave The Joy Of Gay Sex on their gay son's pillow.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 17 January 2013
Tags: mtv, staying alive, foundation, lifebeat, the out nyc, interactive, aids, hiv, awareness, campaign, twitter, times square, petition, youth
Any Twitter user would love to see their updates illuminated to millions in over sized billboards on Times Square and at one of New York's hottest properties. Thanks to MTV's Staying Alive Foundation, Music Fights HIV/AIDS, Lifebeat and The OUT NYC, global citizens now have the chance to do just that by sharing tweets of hope with the hashtag #ArchesOfHope. Details on the groundbreaking interactive campaign that kicks off today after the jump!
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