Unseen, part 3: Popular gay datg app Grdr pos exploatn risk to mors | GBH

Contents:

• THE DIGAL SEX LIV OF YOUNG GAY TEENAGERS
• I’M A BOY OF 13 AND I THK I’M GAY BUT I HAVEN’T TOLD ANYONE. WHAT BOOKS N I READ?
• UNSEEN, PART 3: POPULAR GAY DATG APP GRDR POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS
• ARE YOU GAY? (FOR BOYS 11-16)

THE DIGAL SEX LIV OF YOUNG GAY TEENAGERS

Gross on the gay hookup app Grdr and that they had met for sex before. ”It’s mon for gay, bisexual or qutng mors to go onle to meet other gay people. But most onle social works for gay men are geared toward adults and foced on sex.

They have failed to protect mors, who simply have to subtract a few years om their birth date to create a om the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn and a new study The Journal of Adolcent Health together suggt that roughly one four gay and bisexual boys aged 14 to 17 the Uned Stat are on gay hookup apps signed for adults (Grdr, Scff, Jack’d, Adam4Adam). But this brgs up nfintialy risks for gay men who don’t want to be uld also e algorhms to tect nversatns between mors and adults.

When I searched onle for “gay chat, ” as a lonely, closeted child might, the first h was #1 Chat Avenue. Two mut after I opened a gay chat room, a er wrote: “Any boys 13 or 14 wh meras?

I’M A BOY OF 13 AND I THK I’M GAY BUT I HAVEN’T TOLD ANYONE. WHAT BOOKS N I READ?

Parents also need to stay lm, so that the kids feel fortable g back to them if they ever end up a bad suatn, like if a sry stranger won’t stop a society, we have failed to create enough spac for gay youth to thrive, phg them onle and unrground. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: Young, Gay and Vulnerable Onle.

UNSEEN, PART 3: POPULAR GAY DATG APP GRDR POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS

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ARE YOU GAY? (FOR BOYS 11-16)

What books n I read to help me get the urage to tell people – and make sure that I’m that fely gay? ” For direct, practil advice, I wrote This Book Is Gay.

Siarly, Becky Albertelli’s Simon Vs the Homosapien’s Agenda and Liz Ksler’s Read Me Like A Book look at the mefield of g ’s about transgenr youths, not gay on, but Lisa Williamson’s The Art of Beg Normal is warm and upliftg and looks at the rewards and challeng of livg a more thentic, hont life.

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