Sentences with phrase «many gay youth»

«For those of you feeling alienated, it gets better,» says OneWheaton's founding statement, signed by about 700 GLBT and straight, alumni, echoing Dan Savage's national «It Gets Better» campaign for gay youth.

After BSA leaders floated the idea of allowing gay youths in January, more than 60 % of the BSA's 1,400 - member national council approved the change in May.

The Boy Scouts of America initially planned to lift its longtime ban on openly gay youth without canvassing members, Southern Baptists charged in a resolution that passed overwhelmingly.

There's a reason almost 3 million people marched in the Women's march, why LGBT people are worried about the «godly man» mike pence that believes in electrocuting gay youth to «convert them» to heterosexuality.

On the very week that gay youths are being attacked and even killing themselves, we need our leaders to lower the temperature, not raise it.»

The Boy Scouts of America ended its longstanding policy of forbidding openly gay youths to participate in its activities, a step its chief executive called «compassionate, caring and kind.»

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It's not easy for gay youth in rural British Columbia: «Gay or bisexual teenage boys living in rural B.C. are nearly twice as likely to have attempted suicide and been physically sexually harassed in the past year than their peers in urban centres.»

Gay youth leader in Senegal declares: «The homosexuals will not escape lynching.

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Examples include the Human Rights Campaign, political offices, and gay youth group organizations.

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What is clear is that for many gay youth, middle school is more survival than learning — one parent of a gay teenager I spent time with

What is clear is that for many gay youth, middle school is more survival than learning — one parent of a gay teenager I spent time with Tyler Barney, a high school student in Mt Juliet, said he made the discovery that decreased performance has to do with phones lithium - ion batteries when

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An evangelist for gay pride, Glatze regarded that as his life's work, even after he and Bennett move from San Francisco, include a young man named Tyler (Carver) as part of a functioning threesome, and travel the country shooting footage for a documentary about gay youth.

He starts a magazine for gay youth and puts out a «God Issue.»

Given the higher suicide rate among gay youths, you'd expect a little compassion instead of mockery for the closet cases.

It's one reason why films like Barry Jenkins's Moonlight or Andrew Ahn's Spa Night are such lived - in depictions of gay youth, and also why Beautiful Thing stands apart in its own way.

At a conference in Las Vegas yesterday, addressing educators and counsellors who work with gay youth, the Oscar - nominated star took the opportunity to come out.

His overtly sexual, over the top bravado makes him a gender bending super star among British gay youth.

But in many other schools, in New England and throughout the nation, the atmosphere for gay youth may not be much different, or much better, than it was for boys and girls like me back in the 1970s.

As a recent graduate student in education policy at Harvard University, he received a fellowship that helped him conduct research into the lives of rural gay youths and the educators and other professionals who cross paths...

What hurdles do gay youth stlll face today?

Rosie and the Slenderman, the story of a gay youth forced to move to a small town to help care for his demented grandmother, is nearly completed and ready for editing.

Not exact matches

But A24, a small independent studio founded in 2012, won the most prestigious award of the night with its best picture Oscar for «Moonlight,» a drama about a gay black youth coming to terms with his sexuality in an impoverished Miami neighborhood.

«Moonlight,» a drama about a gay black youth coming to terms with his sexuality in an impoverished Miami neighbourhood, received the Oscar for best picture on Sunday, February 26 after a stunning, unprecedented flub in which presenters erroneously announced the musical «La La Land» as the winner.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth have a 120 % higher risk of homelessness than their straight peers.

B.C.'s Representative for Children and Youth agrees that school district policies that specifically deal with sexual orientation and gender identity are an important component of helping gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth feel safe in their schYouth agrees that school district policies that specifically deal with sexual orientation and gender identity are an important component of helping gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth feel safe in their schyouth feel safe in their schools.

American youth polls show they are much more supportive of gay rights, women's reproductive rights, acceptance of evolution, etc..

One in three people said that messages from places of worship contribute «a lot» to higher rates of suicide among gay and lesbian youth.

But there can be specific Church forms of homophobia too: pressurising us to change our sexual orientation (although people who want to seek change in their orientation should be free to do so, and some find that their sexuality does change); saying that gay people will go to hell; not permitting us to work with youth or children (assuming gay people are more likely to be predatory or paedophiles); and holding us back from ministry roles.

Family & Shelter ◾ Half of gay males experience a negative parental reaction when they come out and in 26 % of those cases the youth was thrown out of the home.

Here in the U.S., homeless and suicide rates among LGBT youth remain shockingly high, in part because conservative Christian leaders like John McArthur instruct parents of gay children to «hand them over to Satan» and refuse to associate with them.

Many LGBT people recall getting bullied mercilessly in school, and I've heard from several who report that they learned their first ant - gay slur from their church youth group.

While I think it's irresponsible to blame family and friends for a loved one's suicide, I believe it's just as irresponsible to ignore the reality that gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide as straight peers, that nearly half of young transgender people have considered taking their lives, and that LGBT youth who come from families who reject their gender identities or sexual orientations are more than eight times more likely to attempt suicide than those who come from supportive families.

Write as who you are: a gay or lesbian person, a parent, a pastoral minister, a counselor, a youth worker, a chaplain — whatever your role is.»

Yes, if we're really worried about «those gays», maybe we should start volunteering some time to deliver meals to AIDS patients, work in a shelter for LGBT youth or that sort of thing and show «those people» a healthy dose of the love of Jesus coming their way.

I've heard from gay Christians offering words of thanks and encouragement, from mega-church pastors and youth leaders saying «message received,» from college students and grandfathers and stay - at - home moms who are ready to «stop waging war and start washing feet.»

Youth groups: The city of Berkeley, Calif., requested that the Sea Scouts (affiliated with the Boy Scouts) formally agree to not discriminate against gay men in exchange for free use of berths in the city's marina.

Ben, celibate gay man who works with our GLBTQ youth ministry, said that it took him 9 years to come to his senses and he is so blessed to be healthy and free from the afflictions that have hobbled so many of those GLBTQ brothers and sisters who remain trapped in the twilight zone of fornication... separated from God and yet so close with the simple renunciation of sinful acts.

Ben, a gay man who has successfully practiced celib@te living, is working with our teen group, Pastor Moore and Elder Duncan, to familarize GLBTQ and straight youth with the value of celib@te living.

In response to the petition, the White House added its voice to a growing chorus of opposition to such therapies while doing little to clarify the petition's confusion: «We share your concern about its potentially devastating effects on the lives of transgender as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual and queer youth,» wrote Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama.