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These stories are the results of Google, Teh Gays, and MSN news searches for "gay teen". It is an unfortunate fact that gay teens are often victimized. Don't tolerate abuse. If someone tries to harm you because they think that you are gay, don't put up with it.
We suggest you look into PFLAG. Parents, Familes, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays is helpful for young people who are struggling with coming out, and for families who have gay members.
Also check out GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network. They are famous for helping students set up GSA groups in their schools.
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The ?ban gay adoption? movement: sacrificing children
When child protective services took two young children from their home and brought them to Frank Martin Gill and his partner in December 2004, protective services told the men - experienced foster parents - that the boys deserved a good holiday.
The men were planning to move soon but agreed to take them temporarily.
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It was clear the boys, ages four years and four months, needed care.
The elder boy was wearing a dirty, adult-sized t-shirt and sneakers that were four sizes too small. H...
29 Jul 2010 at 10:36am
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Culhane: Religion, equality and gay marriage ? redux
Last week?s column [1] generated an unprecedented deluge of comments ? thoughtful, angry, supportive, analytical ? but that?s not completely surprising.
As I learned when I broached this topic last year [2], any talk about the friction between religion and LGBT equality (and especially marriage equality) brings down the house. Today?s entry will probably destroy the foundation.
Recall that the last column ended by asking how to get out of the mess of accommodating religion and an anti-discr...
29 Jul 2010 at 9:00am
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Same-sex relationships 'help self-esteem' in gay and lesbian teenagers
Same-sex relationships give gay male teenagers better self-esteem and lower internalised homophobia in teenage lesbians, a study suggests. The study, carried out by the University of Michigan, did not find similar effects in heterosexual teenagers' relationships.
28 Jul 2010 at 10:29am
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Ask the Expert: Two bachelorettes, one party?
Stumped on when to send out your STDs (save-the-date announcements)? Don't know who should be invited to your rehearsal dinner? Get the answers to all your etiquette questions for your gay wedding by submitting your dilemma to etiquette@equallywed.com.
Q My two best friends are engaged to each other, and I am part of the wedding party. I want to plan a bachelorette party for my friends, but I'm a little unsure of how to proceed.
The traditional bachelorette party is usually a night out w...
28 Jul 2010 at 10:00am
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Study: Same-sex Dating Positive for Gay Teens
A new study conducted by University of Michigan?s School of Public Health shows that same-sex relationships while a teenager leads to higher self-esteem in boys and a reduced incidence of internalized homophobia for girls.
28 Jul 2010 at 9:25am
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Counseling student accuses school of forcing acceptance of homosexuality
Jennifer Keeton, a 24-year-old graduate student at Augusta State University, is suing [1] the school on first amendment grounds saying that ASU is forcing her to change her Christian beliefs that homosexuality is immoral and wrong.
While the school has not yet been served the papers, Keeton will be represented by the socially conservative Alliance Defense Fund [2].
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Keeton is a student at the...
28 Jul 2010 at 6:00am
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Target CEO defends Minn. donations
(St. Paul, Minn.) Target Corp.'s CEO on Tuesday defended the discount retailer's political donations to a Minnesota group helping the state's Republican candidate for governor, telling employees at its Minneapolis headquarters that the company's support of the gay community is "unwavering." [1]
Chief Executive Gregg Steinhafel said gay employees have been raising concerns about the money helping state Rep. Tom Emmer, who opposes gay marriage. Target gave $150,000 [2] to MN Forward, a group s...
27 Jul 2010 at 1:49pm
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Target financed anti-gay candidate
Minnesota-based retail chain Target gave $150,000 to support [1] the political action committee of the state's ultra-conservative gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer.
Target has a history of conservative donations, but Emmer has supported a Christian rock band that has applauded calls for the execution of gay people.
Emmer is the only Minnesota candidate for governor who is against gay marriage; in 2007 he wrote a constitutional amendment barring both gay marriage and civil unions, but the bi...
26 Jul 2010 at 1:00pm
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Monday Watercooler: Choi and Sherrod ask us to be better than we are
Dan Choi at Netroots. The quibbles with Lt. Dan Choi are minor at best. Don't protest in uniform [1]. Trying to subpoena the President Obama [2]is a tactic best left to birthers or Rod Blagojevich, people whose connection with the real based world isn't very tight. Despite these bumps, there is no better individual articulating why "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" needed to end yesterday. Choi was at last week's Netroots Nation [3] conference, and gave Senate majority leader Harry Reid his West Poin...
26 Jul 2010 at 10:01am
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Study: MTV leads in showing gay characters on TV
(New York) MTV held a solid lead among 15 networks for its representation of gay characters last season, according to a report released Friday.
In its fourth annual Network Responsibility Index, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation found that of MTV's 207.5 hours of original prime-time programming, 42 percent included content reflecting the lives of gay, bisexual and transgender people. This earned MTV the first-ever "Excellent" rating from GLAAD.
"MTV programs like 'The Real World...
23 Jul 2010 at 2:00pm
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NZ school sanctioned for firing gay sports coach
(Wellington, New Zealand) A New Zealand Christian school has been ordered to pay undisclosed compensation and apologize to a sports coach it fired because he was gay.
Board members of Middleton Grange School in Christchurch - on New Zealand's South Island - will also attend courses on human rights awareness, school principal Richard Vanderpyl said Thursday.
"We're thinking of the impact on him," Vanderpyl said. "We care for him and respect him."
He said he offered to rehire the 28-year-old...
22 Jul 2010 at 2:00pm
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Study: Gays misrepresented in British media
LGBT non-profit group Stonewall [1] issued a report Thursday, revealing that gay and lesbian characters are misrepresented on British television [2].
In a study entitled ?Unseen on Screen,? researchers screened the 20 most popular television shows among British Youth. They found that in 126 hours of programming, 46 minutes ?positively and realistically? portrayed gay and lesbian characters ? just 0.6 percent.
?TV gives the wrong view of gay people because every storyline is about them bei...
22 Jul 2010 at 12:03pm
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NZ School Sanctioned for Firing Gay Sports Coach
A New Zealand Christian school has been ordered to pay undisclosed compensation and apologize to a sports coach it fired because he was gay. Board members of Middleton Grange School in Christchurch...
22 Jul 2010 at 9:21am
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Culhane: Religion, equality and gay marriage
In one of the first columns [1]I wrote for this site, I swam into treacherous current by beginning to explore the accommodation between religion and equality, especially in the context of same-sex marriages. The subject has interested me for some time; last year I did a guest-blogging, four-part post [2]on these accommodation issues.
The comically awful NOM ?Summer for Marriage? tour has started me thinking again about this important question, to which I?ll devote this column, and next ...
22 Jul 2010 at 7:00am
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Ohio State U. Librarian: Christian Beliefs Got Me Ousted!
A man who left his job as a librarian with Ohio State University lost his case in a federal suit alleging that the school was "hostile" to Christians because of its promotion of what the suit called "the homosexual lifestyle."
22 Jul 2010 at 12:00am
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