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Contents:

• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• THE UNSETTLED PLACE OF THE GAY TEEN FILM HISTORY
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• TUMBLR POST OF GAY TEENS VOTED HIGH SCHOOL'S CUTT UPLE SHARED 100,000 TIM JT 24 HOURS
• HOW N I MEET OTHER GAY TEENS LIKE MYSELF?

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

Answers to your qutns for a better unrstandg of sexual orientatn and homosexualy. Data on HIV prevalence among Ain Amerin gay and bisexual men as well as preventn strategi for the populatns. Washgton: Natnal Center for Transgenr Equaly and Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force.

Each of the followg profsnal membership associatns has s of ethics, posn papers, policy statements or other rourc on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and qutng (LGBTQ) youth schools. Parents' fluence on the health of lbian, gay and bisexual teens: What parents and fai should know. The Te Colors Fund works to end homelsns among lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr youth, creatg a world which young people n be their te selv.

Natnal anizatn that provis rourc for Gay-Straight Allianc (GSAs) to advote for more supportive school environments and aniz a natnal associatn of lol (state and regnal) GSA works throughout the untry. Supreme Court cisn favor of a web signer who did not want to work for gay upl bolsters s fight the U. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person.

THE UNSETTLED PLACE OF THE GAY TEEN FILM HISTORY

“The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds. “We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people. The Unsettled Place of the Gay Teen Film HistoryPrr to the recent boom movi about queer kids, their stggl played out boundary-phg die films and entertag sikick rol.

Courty of NeonOn this past New Year’s Day, the mician Hayley Kiyoko christened the year to e as “20gayteen. In this month’s issue of The Atlantic, I wrote about the proliferatn of gay teens recent, wily seen movi: the h rom- Love, Simon, the buzzy nversn-therapy dramas Boy Erased and The Mistn of Cameron Post, and the Bt Picture nomee Call Me by Your Name and wner Moonlight. In ntent and style, the works vary wily, but they share a somewhat rerved, ut tone as they portray kids g to unrstand their homosexualy.

Gay kids have long shown up mastream high-school edy, jt not as stars. The Mistn of Cameron Post and Boy Erased leralize the way that homophobia n rip people away om the tradnal visn of teenagerdom—the backseat make outs, the backwoods keggers—and send them on drab reprogrammg missns which the kids end up policg and punishg themselv.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

Last year’s absorbg die drama Beach Rats, for example, portrayed a closeted Brooklyn bro who (spoiler alert) helps his iends mug a guy he meets on a hookup appeal of the lightweight Love, Simon, though, was imagg that a gay kid might fall fortably to a faiar g-of-age groove: ocsnally mortifyg, but never actually trmatic.

In both s, lettg the gay hero thrive reli on an ialized—even parodic—progrsive utopia. The 1999 mp edy But I’m a Cheerlear h many of the same story beats as Mistn and Boy Erased as portrayed a young woman sent to nversn therapy, but this churchgog hero got to also vis a gay bar and meet a stable same-sex uple. For all their ser problems, Araki’s irreverent characters lived liv that felt unscripted—which is, perhaps, one of the ter ways to portray growg up gay.

"Thgs got so bad for Sean that he dropped out of middle school, and his mother home-schooled him for the remar of the Sean, an creasg number of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr -- LGBT -- children are "g out" earlier than high school bee of greater cultural the immature and sometim predatory world of middle school, Sean's experience is not unmon, acrdg to advocy groups. "There seems to be somethg about the onset of puberty that mak those years different, " said Kev Jenngs, founr and executive director of the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network.

TUMBLR POST OF GAY TEENS VOTED HIGH SCHOOL'S CUTT UPLE SHARED 100,000 TIM JT 24 HOURS

"In the last year, the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network has seen a "huge surge of tert" addrsg anti-LGBT bullyg middle schools. Much of has been a reactn to the Febary killg of openly gay stunt Lawrence Kg. After Kg's 2008 murr, 1, 046 middle schools participated a, the work sponsors about 110 gay-straight allianc -- or GSA clubs to support lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr stunts -- natnwi.

HOW N I MEET OTHER GAY TEENS LIKE MYSELF?

One classmate bullied Josh cyberspace, sendg homophobic msag and llg him nam on the school's MySpace page. "The school did nothg, " said Lisa Rivero, who sought help and later began a lol chapter of Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays, or PFLAG, where she now serv as threats soon beme physil and Josh's mother, at the suggtn of the school's prcipal, reluctantly filed a temporary rtrag orr agast her son's tormentor.