Wisconsin Town Plans To Fine And Ticket Parents Of Children Who Bully...
As part of an effort to crack down on "harassment and emotional abuse among young people," a Wisconsin town will reportedly ticket and fine parents whose children repeatedly bully others. As The...
View ArticleGay 11-Year-Old's Petition Against Homophobic Politician Succeeds
A openly gay 11-year-old boy's campaign against a homophobic Tennessee representative has succeeded. Marcel Neergaard is a Tennessee boy who was home-schooled for sixth grade and even contemplated...
View ArticleJoe Bell, Father Of Gay Teen Jadin, Discusses Cross-Country Anti-Bullying Walk
The father of Jadin Bell spoke to HuffPost Live from the road after setting out on a cross-country journey in honor of his son, who committed suicide earlier this year after allegedly being subjected...
View ArticleTed Chalfen, Gay Colorado Teen, Thanks Graduating Class For Support In Speech
A Colorado-based gay teen's incredible commencement speech thanking his graduating classmates for their support is making the blogosphere rounds. "I’m going to skip all of the clichés I want to rattle...
View ArticleHitler Baneo Núñez, Peruvian Father, Allegedly Set Fire To Gay, HIV-Positive...
A Peruvian father faces allegations that he doused his son with gasoline and set him on fire after learning the 22-year-old was gay and HIV-positive. According to the Peruvian daily newspaper La...
View ArticleLGBTQ Youth Suicide Prevention Program Will Continue At San Francisco...
Each year, one out of every three gay or lesbian students in the San Francisco Unified School District reportedly attempts suicide. For transgender students, that number jumps to nearly one in two....
View ArticleElliot Morales, New York Gay Hate Crime Suspect, May Plead Not Guilty By...
By Andrea Swalec, DNAInfo Reporter/Producer MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — The man charged with gunning down a gay man in a vicious Greenwich Village hate crime this spring may plead not guilty by reason...
View ArticleGay Iowa Teen Commits Suicide, Was Allegedly Bullied By Classmates
An Iowa community is reeling after a teen's suicide, the fifth to rattle the local high school over the past five years. According to his mother Sheryl Moore, Alexander "AJ" Betts Jr. was subjected to...
View ArticleJared Olson, Gay Denver Man, Needs Reconstructive Surgery After Alleged Hate...
A gay Denver man says a brutal attack he endured over the Labor Day holiday was a hate crime. As ABC 7 reports, Jared Olson says he and two friends were leaving Sam's Hookah Lounge in the wee hours of...
View ArticleTilo Sandoval Wanted In Alleged Hate Crime On Gay Denver Man Who Needs...
A 20-year-old has been identified by police as a suspect in an alleged hate crime on a gay Denver man who says that he'll need reconstructive surgery after suffering a broken nose, fractured face and...
View ArticleEdward Orozco, Elderly Gay NYC Man, Allegedly Killed For 'Blowing Kisses' In...
A 69-year-old gay man was allegedly stabbed to death with an eight-inch knife under a New York subway station in broad daylight Sept. 16. Though witnesses initially speculated that the attack occurred...
View ArticleKhadijah James, Wisconsin Teen, Jailed For Alleged Anti-Gay Hate Crime...
A Wisconsin teen has been jailed after allegedly attacking a gay couple in her neighborhood with homophobic slurs and vandalizing their Racine home. Fox 6 News cites a criminal complaint which accused...
View ArticleDavid Jimenez, Brooklyn Resident, Allegedly Attacked In Anti-Gay Hate Crime
A New York man was attacked last week while walking his dogs less than a block from his Brooklyn apartment, in a violent beating that authorities are reportedly treating as a hate crime. David...
View ArticleAhmed Mohammed Tuma, Muslim Nebraska Man, Allegedly Attacked Lesbian Sister...
Getty A 20-year-old Muslim man in Nebraska stands accused of a hate crime after allegedly attacking his sister with a crowbar because she is a lesbian. The Associated Press reports that Ahmed Mohammed...
View ArticleBen Stoviak, Pittsburgh Gay Man, Attacked In Alleged Hate Crime
Police are investigating an alleged Oct. 6 assault on a Pennsylvania-based gay man and his boyfriend as a possible hate crime. As CBS reports, Ben Stoviak and his boyfriend Aaron were leaving Remedy...
View ArticleRyan Langenegger, Nebraska Man, Allegedly Attacked After Defending His Gay...
A Nebraska man was left bruised and bloody after allegedly being beaten by three men who had initially been harassing his two gay friends. As WOWT 6 News is reporting, Ryan Langenegger and two...
View ArticleJadin Bell's Father, Joe Bell, Killed While Walking Cross Country For...
The father who set out on an inspiring cross-country journey following his gay son's suicide was reportedly killed last night by a truck in Colorado, midway through his walk across America. According...
View ArticleGay New Mexico Teen Commits Suicide After Reportedly Being Bullied By Classmates
A gay New Mexico teen reportedly commit suicide after being subjected to intense bullying from his classmates. Seventeen-year-old Carlos Vigil posted a note to Twitter before he decided to take his own...
View ArticleSoloman Harris, 8th Grade Student, Allegedly Shot By Bullies With BB Gun (VIDEO)
LOS ANGELES - The last place a mother thinks her child will get shot is in class. But that's exactly what happened to Soloman Harris, an eighth grade student at Curtiss Middle School, he told NBC. In...
View ArticleSasha Fleischman, Agender California Teen, Speaks Out After Having Skirt Set...
EDITOR'S NOTE: The subject of this story identifies as agender, so we are using "they, their, them," although male pronouns were used in many of the on-camera interviews and other reports. The agender...
View ArticleLeighton Jennings, Suspect In Alleged Attack On Gay Journalist Randy Gener,...
A suspect in an alleged Jan. 17 attack on a gay New York journalist just blocks from Times Square has been arrested. The New York Daily News reports that 24-year-old Leighton Jennings was nabbed for...
View ArticleRandy Gener, Gay NYC Journalist, Recovering From Brain Surgery After Alleged...
Authorities are investigating an alleged attack on an openly gay journalist just blocks from New York's Times Square as a possible hate crime. Randy Gener, 46, was reportedly found unconscious in a...
View ArticleJane Clementi, Tyler Clementi's Mother, Speaks Out About Leelah Alcorn Suicide>
The queer community is still reeling from the suicide of transgender teen Leelah Alcorn. Now, the mother of another queer teen who took his own life is speaking out about Alcorn's death. Jane Clementi,...
View ArticleCriminal Case Puts Focus On Bullying Laws
This piece comes to us courtesy of Stateline, where it was originally published. Once considered a teenage rite of passage, bullying is now the subject of hundreds of state laws and a rallying cry for...
View ArticleRep. Pocan, Sens. Murray and Baldwin Introduce Tyler Clementi Higher...
(Source: Mark Pocan) Today, Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI), along with U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), reintroduced legislation aimed at reducing dangerous bullying and...
View ArticleLGBTQ Youth Release Video in Support of "Power On" Campaign
Today, members of The Trevor Project's Youth Advisory Council released a pair of new videos in support of "Power On," an initiative by Straight But Not Narrow, The Trevor Project and human I-T to...
View Article>LGBTQ Youth Release Video in Support of "Power On" Campaign
Today, members of The Trevor Project's Youth Advisory Council released a pair of new videos in support of "Power On," an initiative by Straight But Not Narrow, The Trevor Project and human I-T to...
View ArticleMurray, Baldwin, Pocan Introduce Tyler Clementi Higher Education...
(Source: US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions) Murray, Baldwin, Pocan Introduce Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act to Combat Bullying and Harassment at...
View ArticleBaldwin, Murray, Pocan Introduce Tyler Clementi Higher Education...
(Source: Tammy Baldwin) Wednesday, March 18, 2015 Legislation would work to reduce the bullying and harassment epidemic at colleges across America LGBT youth are twice as likely to be harassed as their...
View ArticleMurray, Baldwin, Pocan Introduce Tyler Clementi Higher Education...
(Source: Patty Murray) Legislation would work to reduce the bullying and harassment epidemic at colleges across America LGBT youth are twice as likely to be harassed as their peers (Washington, D.C.) -...
View Article>New Anti-Bullying Trainings Tap Educators to Support At-Risk LGBTQ Youth
LGBTQ youth champions The Trevor Project and Campus Pride partner with award-winning developer of online training simulations, Kognito Interactive to create a trio of online safety net programs to...
View ArticleNew Anti-Bullying Trainings Tap Educators to Support At-Risk LGBTQ Youth
LGBTQ youth champions The Trevor Project and Campus Pride partner with award-winning developer of online training simulations, Kognito Interactive to create a trio of online safety net programs to...
View ArticleCARE WITH PRIDE™ On Target To Deliver More Than $500K to LGBT Charities...
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., June 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson & Johnson's corporate-wide anti-bullying and LGBT equality initiative is expanding as it kicks off its third year in June. Since 2012,...
View ArticleOctober is LGBT History Month: What teachers should do when gay bullying...
In the United States Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month is celebrated in October. It began in 1994 to observe the history of Gay Rights and National Coming Out Day which is celebrated...
View ArticleLGBTQ Youth Meet Legislators, Rally to Demand Opportunity to Succeed in...
(Source: Gay-Straight Alliance Network) LGBTQ Youth Meet Legislators, Rally to Demand Opportunity to Succeed in School LGBTQ Youth Meet Legislators, Demand Opportunity to Succeed in School April 29,...
View ArticleJames Dawson: we need to take action on mental health of LGBT teens
The author of This Book Is Gay gets angry about the stark statistics on LGBT teenagers with depression – or even taking their own lives as Leelah Alcorn did last month – and calls for a big shake up in...
View ArticleUK school seeks to segregate LGBTQ students
A school dedicated to only gay, lesbian and transgendered students in Manchester, England was announced Friday. The school is planned to open in about three years. The idea is to allow a school where...
View ArticleSchool Administrators: Getting Them Onboard Is Key to Change for LGBTQ Students
We at QuERI are often asked what we would change in order to make schools more supportive for LGBTQ students and families. That list, frankly, is really long. Changing schools is not an easy thing and...
View ArticleHRC Foundation’s Major Conference Supporting LGBTQ Youth To Be Held in...
(Source: Human Rights Campaign) Time to THRIVE will bring together an estimated 800+ youth-service providers and LGBTQ youth experts 7/21/2014 WASHINGTON - The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, in...
View ArticleLGBT Youth are Still Bullied for Being Gay, an article released today by...
LGBT Youth are Still Bullied for Being Gay, an article released today by NoBullying. http://nobullying.com/bullied-for-being-gay/ London, UK (PRWEB) July 25, 2014 In today’s world, in spite of major...
View Article>LGBT Youth are Still Bullied for Being Gay, an article released today by...
LGBT Youth are Still Bullied for Being Gay, an article released today by NoBullying. http://nobullying.com/bullied-for-being-gay/ London, UK (PRWEB) July 25, 2014 In today’s world, in spite of major...
View ArticleAstellas recognizes its people and culture during LGBTQ Pride Month and...
(Source: Astellas Pharma US Inc) Astellas demonstrated support of its lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) employees, communities and issues by flying the Pride Flag at its...
View ArticleTransgender Bullying, A Shocking Trend Revealed By Nobullying Today
NoBullying.com releases a guide to the newly formed trend of Transgender Bullying - http://nobullying.com/transgender-bullying/. London, UK (PRWEB) July 21, 2014 It goes without saying that Bullying...
View Article'McTucky Fried High,' LGBT Web Series, Explores Queer Teen Issues
An animated web series launched this week that explores issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) teens in an unconventional way. "McTucky Fried High" is the brainchild of...
View ArticleLGBT Students Throughout US to Benefit from Expansion of Landmark LGBT...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 7, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A pilot program developed and launched two years ago by the Los Angeles LGBT Center and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) with...
View ArticleLive Proud
Co-authored with Ken McNeely, President of AT&T California June 28, 1969, seems to be such a long time ago, especially to today's youth. However, it was only 44 years ago when police raided the...
View ArticleElliot Morales, New York Anti-Gay Hate Crime Suspect, Says Mark Carson Was...
By Irene Plagianos MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — The man charged with gunning down a gay man in Greenwich Village last month allegedly told police he shot the victim because he was “acting tough.” “I...
View ArticleChristine Quinn Promises New York's LGBT Community Self-Defense Classes...
New York mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn has responded to a disturbing spate of alleged anti-gay attacks in the area by offering a series of free self-defense classes to the city's lesbian, gay,...
View ArticleOhio's Gay Community Rattled By Three Alleged Hate Crimes
New York's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community may continue to be rattled after a series of alleged hate crimes. Now, however, a spate of incidents is making headlines in another...
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