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Lost-n-Found Youth Continues Service to Homeless Youth Amidst Pandemic

Lost-n-Found Youth (LNFY) is continuing to provide shelter and support services, including daily meals and emergency and transitional housing, to Atlanta’s homeless youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. While ...

New Biden Ad Mocks Buttigieg’s Youth, Experience as Mayor

Joseph Biden’s presidential campaign came out swinging Saturday with a whopper of a TV ad taking a back-handed compliment approach to criticizing Pete Buttigieg. The 60-second ad, which the Biden campaign un...

Nearly 2 in 10 Black LGBTQ Youth Forced into Sexual Acts, HRC Report Reveals

According to a new report from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), 18 percent of LGBTQ youth in the U.S. have been forced to perform unwanted sexual acts. The Black and African American LGBTQ Youth Report, whic...

Trans Youth Know Their Identities

A study in its sixth year by Dr. Kristina Olson, a professor at the University of Washington, has found that gender-nonconforming youth who go on to transition identify as strongly with their desired gender as ...

Inhaling the Consequences: E-cigs a Growing Concern Among Youth

We’ve heard the dangers of smoking cigarettes from a very young age. D.A.R.E. programs at our schools and countless anti-smoking PSA’s every year have been a constant reminder that smoking is terrible. They sta...

LGBTQ Youth More Likely To Use Drugs Due to Discrimination, Harrassment

An estimated 3.2 million youth, aged 8-18, are LGBTQ in America, reported the Williams Institute. Studies have shown that this demographic of young people are more likely to use illicit drugs – more than two...

Biden Launches “As You Are” LGBTQ Youth Campaign

The Biden Foundation understands the power of storytelling to promote change. That’s the essence of their new program, an LGBTQ awareness campaign called #AsYouAre. The campaign is an advocacy effort to collect...

LGTBQ youth in sports still mostly closeted

Although there is a rising profile for gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer youth playing competitive sports, the majority of such youth remain closeted, according to various sources. The percentage of close...

Gay and bisexual teens use Grindr for love and friendship, study shows

Grindr has become a hotspot for LGBTQ teens to find companionship and relationships. While this will hardly come as a surprise to anyone who has used the service, a recent study confirms what has been long anec...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, March 30

1. The Mexican Soccer Federation launched a campaign Tuesday urging fans to refrain from anti-gay chants. 2. This college just got rid of all gender signs for their restrooms. 3. LGBT shows are all over t...

Mark S. King: I learned my brother was gay from The Advocate

It was 1975 and I was 14 years old, all gangly limbs and stubborn acne, and I was sitting in the passenger seat of his parked car. Splayed across my lap was the magazine, open to the page he had selected. I was...

A time of reckoning: Atlanta's LGBTQ community addresses racism problem

Trump Administration Sued Again over Rescission of Transgender Health Care Protections

Supreme Court Makes Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination Easier at Religious Schools

House Democrats Demand Transgender Military Ban Be Lifted in Light of SCOTUS Ruling

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Scooby Doo’s Velma is a Lesbian, ‘Mystery Incorporated’ Producer Confirms

Bisexual Actress Javicia Leslie Takes on Role of Batwoman

8 out of 10 Gen Z Trans People Are Only Out Online, Study from Tinder Finds