Latest Gay-straight alliance Stories
NEW YORK, July 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- What if a gay woman, gay man, and straight woman had equal stage time to muse on sex, identity, and dating? Fed up with the predominantly straight-white-male perspectives on life and sex, Veronica Elizabeth, Kenny Neal, and Alyssa Wolff dreamed up the Gay/Straight Alliance: an LGBT-friendly comedy show that breaks down barriers, exposing the fact that basically, we're all awful, regardless of orientation. This popular monthly show is held at the...
Gay teens are 5 times more likely to try to kill themselves than heterosexual peers but school and community factors influence riskIn the wake of several highly publicized suicides by gay teenagers, a new study finds that a negative social environment surrounding gay youth is associated with high rates of suicide attempts by lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youth. The study, "The Social Environment and Suicide Attempts in a Population-Based Sample of LGB Youth," appears in the April...
NEW YORK, Feb. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- To help underwrite recent efforts to prevent suicides among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth, gay social network Fab.com is donating $1 to LGBT support organizations GLSEN and The Trevor Project for each new member who joins Fab.com in February. The donations will be made in partnership with the It Gets Better Project, the widely publicized anti-bullying video initiative addressed at sexual minority youth. Less than a year old, Fab already...
