Gay Won¹t Go Away, Genetic or Not – NYTimes.com

An article was published on Sunday, Jan. 29th which might interest you… The article can be seen on line at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/opinion/sunday/bruni-gay-wont-go-away-genetic-or-not.html A PDF with all the links attached can be fetched from: http://www.bergenpflag.org/resources/NYT_120129_gay-wont-go-away.pdf

Behind the Scenes: NBA Players Tell Teens to Think Before You Speak

Rather than copy the whole posting to here, just visit this site! http://www.adlibbing.org/2011/05/16/behind-the-scenes-nba-players-tell-teens-to-think-before-you-speak/

HELP NEEDED: LGBTQ YOUTH – SPEAK OUT ABOUT YOUR SCHOOL

HELP NEEDED: LGBTQ YOUTH – SPEAK OUT ABOUT YOUR SCHOOL EXPERIENCES! Help GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) inform education policymakers and the public about what’s really going on in our nation’s schools by completing the 2011 National School Climate Survey, GLSEN’s seventh national survey about the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender [...]

Pakistan’s Lesbians Live In Silence, Love In Secret

by Habiba Nosheen January 17, 2011 http://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132711102/pakistans-lesbians-live-in-silence-love-in-secret The names in this story have been changed to protect the women’s identities out of concern for their safety. Five years ago, Fatima was 23 and studying law in Lahore, Pakistan. She wore blue jeans and a loose shirt and sported short boyish hair. That was the first [...]

Student creativity

How students successfully confronted ‘Day of Silence’ with a “Day of Truth’ Mass Resistance outlines how students at Chelmsford High School in Massachusetts were ‘bold and unapologetic’  in their pursuit of the anti-gay Day of Truth. Read more: http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/10c/day_of_truth.html

National LGBTQI Young Adult Tobacco Needs Assessment

NYAC (National Youth Advocacy Coalition)  is happy to announce that the LGBTQI Young Adult Tobacco Needs Assessment survey tool is ready! After the tireless attention of the Tobacco Working Group over the past few months, we have designed a survey and process that we think (and hope) will be very useful in collecting information about [...]