A selection of useful pages aimed at young people who may be questioning their sexuality in the difficult period of adolescence. These pages are intended to help young readers understand emerging sexual feelings, and the addition of many personal stories sent in to us from young gay and lesbian people, means there is a wealth of useful information to relate to.
Our Mission: To engage, connect, and empower people to make the world a better place for children of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender parents and families.
You mean I'm not the only one?!!
Welcome to Families Like Mine, a web site dedicated to decreasing isolation for people who have parents who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT), and bringing voice to the experiences of these families.
This site was created by Abigail Garner, a lifetime advocate for LGBT families because she comes from one herself. She is the author of the new book, Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is (HarperCollins).
This site is intended for adults and mature teens, but not young children. (Abigail speaks directly to teens at: "When I was Your Age...") In addition to providing resources for LGBT people and their families, FamiliesLikeMine.com is also for our allies. Regular visitors to this site include students and employers who are looking for ways to build more inclusive environments on campus or in the workplace. Other visitors include journalists, therapists, and researchers seeking information on LGBT-family issues.
So what should you do if your child is gay? You can't turn your back on them. You love them too much for that. But how can you accept something about them that your church, your family, your friends and possibly even yourself finds unbearable, immoral or indecent?
If we are successful with this website, you will find the answer to this challenging question. It is our prayer that our efforts will keep you from losing your child.
--- Patti Ellis
is a voice of informed straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people who have chosen to love and support our relatives and friends by working to spread truth about homosexuality. Our focus is on young people because they generally feel so desperately alone.
Alter Heroes - An incorporated non-profit organization whose mission is to facilitate the community integration of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth by:
- Informing and educating the youth, parents, family and friends through the dissemination of information
- Providing aid and support by posing, clarifying and responding to questions and creating a mutual aid network
- Creating a community where the youth can share, exchange, contribute, make friends and connect with others.
Resources for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Youth...
The Cool Page For Queer Teens
GTG is here for many reasons. One of which is to provide a service and a society whereby young gay guys can talk about what they want and need to. Please support us and those others who already do. Thank you.
Gay Teen Internet Community
GTIC
"Always be true to yourself, and remember that you are never alone."
This site is designed as a cyber community for gay, lesbian, and bisexual teenagers. We host a variety of resources, from news stories to web links. We also have stories, poems, and are determined to become one of the premier sources of information and entertainment for gay, lesbian, and bisexual teenagers.
Hello, thank you for stoping by Gay Youth Links. Here you will find links to sites which I feel will be of interest to gay, lesbian, transgendered and questioning young people. The site is under new managment now, so if you have any questions, please send them to gylinksmail@gmail.com. The sites listed are checked for inappropriate material, but please be aware that I am not responsible for the content of any of these sites. |
GayYouthNews · Gay Youth News: Stories on kids dealing with being gay and related topics.
Stories are selected from around the country.
Gay Youth News: Stories on kids dealing with being gay and related topics.
Stories are selected from around the country but there's a lot about Connecticut.
| About Youth Guardian Services |
| Youth Guardian Services is a youth-run, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides support services on the Internet to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, questioning, and straight supportive youth. At this time the organization operates solely on private donations from individuals. |
Youth Pride Alliance, now in its eleventh year, was founded in 1996. Our |
About Advocates for Youth
Mission
Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates provides information, training, and strategic assistance to youth-serving organizations, policy makers, youth activists, and the media in the United States and the developing world.
The goals of FreeToBeMe.com:
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Health Initiatives for Youth - HIFY's youth/adult partnership has taken a leadership role in the battle against adolescent HIV and the many health needs of young people. On the national, state and local levels, HIFY is an active participant in establishing public policy and building systems of care and services for at risk and HIV positive youth.
Just Say Yes is about helping teens to develop a positive attitude towards sexuality -- gay, straight, bisexual or whatever. It's about saying "yes" to sex you do want, and "no" to sex you don't. It says there's nothing wrong with you if you decide to have sex, and nothing wrong with you if you decide not to. You have the right to make your own choices, and to have people respect them. Sex is enjoyable when everyone involved is into it, and when everyone has the information they need to take care of themselves and each other. About our language: We chose words for this guide that we use when we talk about sex with our friends. We're not doctors and we don't pretend to be, so pardon our French! |
Scarleteen - Sex Education for the real world - While we at Scarleteen do not hold to the notion that telling teens to go have sex is a better solution, we strongly feel that belying judgment and furnishing them with the facts they need to know REGARDLESS of whether or not they are sexually active readies them to learn to make their own choices, and develop their own systems of ethics and values from themselves and their families is our job as educators and sex-positive advocates. One cannot make a decision from a position of informed consent without being informed.
Welcome to an amazing charitable organization that is dedicated to saving young lives. During this 25th year (AIDS was discovered 1981) of the pandemic, there are many efforts around the world trying to curb the spread of HIV. Everyone involved in these efforts should be applauded for their hard work and commitment to helping save the human race from this deadly, preventable viral disease.
However, TeenAIDS is different from all the others. We are committed to saving young teenage lives first. We are the only organization whose Executive Director is volunteering 100 percent of his time to this mission. We are the only charity that provides the best and most extensive website on the Internet to educate young people. We have volunteers in over 80 countries who do their work selflessly for their peers and countrymen.
Please read about Dr. John, the PeerCorps volunteers, our staff and the Boards that provide needed assistance in delivering the medically accurate facts that prevent the premature deaths of the younger generation of the world.
A nonprofit endeavor created by the makers of TREVOR to promote tolerance for gay and questioning youth, and to aid in suicide prevention among that group. Statistics have shown that gay teens are three times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers. The project hopes, through its efforts, to prevent some of those tragedies from occurring.
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YouthResource, a Web site created by and for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (GLBTQ) young people 13 to 24 years old, takes a holistic approach to sexual health by offering support, community, resources, and peer-to-peer education about issues of concern to GLBTQ young people. YouthResource has four focus areas: health, advocacy, community, and issues in our lives.
Welcome to the most complete Internet Resource on
Gay and Bisexual
Male suicide problems!
related issues, and a little known concept related to youth suicide.
The evidence indicates that homosexually oriented males account for more than half of male youth suicide problems, but mainstream suicidologists generally continue to ignore this aspect of the problem. Information about lesbian youth suicide problems is included, as is other generally unrecognized factors possibly associated with youth suicide problems.
It is hoped that your exploration of the site lead to positive outcomes for the ongoing victims of the traditional Better be Dead Than Gay social ideology. Unfortunately, many professionals have had a history of abusing, harming and/or ignoring these young individuals. They have also been ignoring the high risk status of many other adolescents targeted for abuse in schools and elsewhere because they are "presumed to be homosexual," usually on the basis of gender nonconformity.
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The Educational Theater Company
A dynamic non-profit professional theater company, ETC is dedicated to educating and enlightening young people with positive messages via original multi-ethnic stage shows and workshops.
Over two million people throughout California and Arizona have seen ETC's exciting, original and informative shows. Through a skillful weaving of drama, comedy and music, ETC shows become powerful statements which impact audiences at a very deep level. They not only entertain and inform, but can actually transform awareness by touching the hearts and minds of the audience.
Gay-Straight Alliance Network is a youth-led organization that connects school-based Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) to each other and community resources. Through peer support, leadership development, and training, GSA Network supports young people in starting, strengthening, and sustaining GSAs and builds the capacity of GSAs to:
create safe environments in schools for students to support each other and learn about homophobia and other oppressions,
educate the school community about homophobia, gender identity, and sexual orientation issues, and
fight discrimination, harassment, and violence in schools.
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Operation Respect - Don't Laugh At Me - A non-profit organization working to transform schools, camps and other youth organizations, into more compassionate, safe and respectful environments. Founded by Peter Yarrow of the folk group Peter, Paul & Mary, the organization disseminates educational resources that are designed to establish a climate that reduces the emotional and physical cruelty some children inflict upon each other by behaviors such as ridicule, bullying and-in extreme cases-violence.
It is a unique organization that provides a gateway to broad scale adoption of school-based character education as well as social and emotional learning (SEL) programs. Toward this end, Operation Respect developed the Don't Laugh at Me (DLAM) programs, one for grades 2-5, another for grades 6-8 and a third for summer camps and after-school programs.
All of the programs utilize inspiring music and video along with curriculum guides based on the well-tested, highly regarded conflict resolution curricula developed by the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) of Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR).
Point Foundation provides financial support, mentoring and hope to meritorious students who are marginalized due to sexual orientation, gender expression or gender identity. |
The Safe Schools Coalition offers resources as a starting point for educators, parents/guardians and youth.
We cannot endorse specific web sites, as they change frequently.
Many of these sites also contain links to other sites; Coalition members did not assess all of the linked sites.
10-20 Gay Christian Teens is here to help you find yourself! You lead the way, we help guide. People who have the courage to discuss homosexuality are hard to find, but here you will find hundreds like yourself who are happy to offer and receive support. No one can take away your spirituality, and we are all open to receive God's love. Here, you will be viewed as an individual with individual behaviors. We understand the confusing feelings and how they can conflict with religion and spirituality. We are here to support you as a person and to guide you towards making loving, compassionate decisions in your life. Welcome to the group, and God Bless you!
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GTR_Christian · From GayTeenResources, a list for Gay Christian Youth & Young Adults.
If you're a gay, lesbian, transgendered, or questioning teenager or young adult who is also a Christian, this list is for you to discuss your beliefs, and offer your support for others; note: bashers of any type will not be welcomed here.
The Teens and Twenties Group has it own unique role: to provide a safe place in the Online Christian community where gay, lesbian, and bisexual people in their teens and twenties can gather to have fun, develop friendships, and dialogue about issues related to faith, especially as it relates to sexual orientation. Unfortunately, there aren't enough places like this in the Christian community, and we would like to do our part to fill in the gap. We have this mailing list, and we will meet in AOL chat rooms for group discussions.
Arizona, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
New York, North Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Washington
A Phoenix Arizona Group for
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth
Located in Vista, CA Providing Outreach for Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender, & Questioning Youth for the North County area of San Diego, CA Our Circle is a nonprofit youth group located in the North County area of San Diego, CA. Our goal is to provide Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender, and Questioning youth a safe and positive environment in which to socialize and get to know other teens who are in the same situation in life. We are the product of Oceanside, CA based youth group "Circle Of Friends" relocating to a new facility with a more structured goal in mind. |
Supporting & Empowering LGBTQQ Youth!
Welcome
Since 1997, thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQQ) youth living in the Bay Area have come to Outlet for support, community, and opportunities to improve the world. As the Peninsula’s (Mountain View) only organization for LGBTQQ teens, Outlet is working hard to support and empower local youth by providing counseling & community, leadership training & advocacy, and outreach awareness.
A community education resource and support group for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, Intersexed, Queer and Questioning youth and young adults in Sonoma and surrounding counties. Positive Images provides a safe space for teens and young adults and provides community educational services for high schools, businesses, community-based organizations, colleges, hospitals, social service departments, and other organizations interested in learning more about the issues facing GLBTQQI youth and young adults. |
True Colors, Inc. Sexual Minority Youth and Family Services is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization that combats homophobia, gender bias, and racism. We provide support, education, and advocacy to those responsible for the health, education, and well-being of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Youth and Families.
The Illinois Safe Schools Alliance (the Alliance) mission is to promote safety, support and healthy development for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, in Illinois schools and communities, through advocacy, education, youth organizing and research.
The Task Force’s mission is to increase understanding in local school districts and communities about GLBT students, increase awareness and address the inequities regarding safety of GLBT students in Iowa, and improve school climate in order to increase the personal safety, mental health, and achievement levels of GLBT students. In our short existence, we have helped create safer schools for GLBT students.
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mid-missouri's gay staight youth alliance
Prism is a substance-free gay straight alliance for youth between 13 to 19 years of age. For the past five years Prism has provided a secure environment that encourages lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning and ally youth to celebrate who they are without shame or apology. Prism is a place to meet other kids like you, and to relax and socialize in a fun and safe environment. We respect the confidentiality of our members—your level of "outness" is respected. Prism strives to be non-discriminatory to all members—no one is forced to label themselves and assumptions are avoided. Prism is owned and operated by Mid-Missouri youth under the supervision of an advisory board. We formed in 1998 in the wake of the Matthew Shepherd murder when local youth decided they needed a safe space to come together, socialize, and support one another.
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GLYS is the acronym for Gay & Lesbian Youth Services of WNY! Founded in 1983, GLYS offers a variety of opportunities and services for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and questioning youth & their friends ages 14~21.
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HATCH is dedicated to empowering Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (GLBTQ) adolescents, ages 13-20, to become responsible citizens and positive contributors to society by:
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Out Youth is a non-profit organization whose mission is to support and provide services to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth ages 12 to 19 in Austin and Central Texas. We offer peer support groups, counseling, educational programs, social activities and community outreach.
Youth First Texas is the only non-profit organization in Dallas exclusively committed to providing social services, educational opportunities, and recreational activities for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning youth through age 22. Our Mission is to provide group interaction and individual support for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth by providing age appropriate activities, programs, and resources that facilitate empowerment and self acceptance.
The Mission of Outright Vermont is to build safe, healthy, and supportive environments for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth.
Outright Vermont (ORVT) is one of the longest standing queer organizations in Vermont and the only one that works specifically with young people. By striving to empower queer youth, model positive cross-generational learning and leadership, and to address lateral oppressions including racism, classism, and heterosexism, ORVT is building a safer, healthier, and more supportive world for all young people.
Founded in 1989 by local gay and lesbian activists, ORVT helped to create visibility, support, and advocacy throughout the 90s for the queer youth community in Vermont. Our work has now expanded to encompass Education and Outreach, Health and Wellness, Direct Services, and Social Justice Organizing. ORVT is now one of the few independent, queer-youth only, organizations in the United States which still provides both Direct Service and Education & Outreach services.
Welcome to Camp Ten Trees
Camp Ten Trees is a non-profit summer camp in the Pacific Northwest featuring a week for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and their allies, and a week for children of LGBTQ families. Since Camp Ten Trees first opened in 2001, we have been committed to developing a camp community that honors creativity, individual choice, and community living. Our programs are for youth connected to the LGBTQ community and provide opportunities for each camper to strengthen inner courage, make new friends, and develop leadership skills through traditional camp programming.
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Stonewall Youth is a non-profit community organization that supports, informs, and advocates for youth up to 21 years old who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, or who have questions about their sexual orientation or gender identity. The organization was founded in 1991 and today provides a wide spectrum of services, including Youth Outreach, Peer Support Groups, and Community Education.
Welcome to the Antigen Mail List It is a place where basically, the unloved of this world, can come and get love and support from their peers, and hopefully soon their friends. |
