Gay unselor's firg at Indiana Catholic school OK'd by urt

Contents:

• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• CT NATIVE BREAKS BARRIER AS FIRST OPENLY-GAY NFL ACH
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• I WAS OPENLY GAY ON MY HIGH SCHOOL TEAM AND HEARD SLURS ALL THE TIME

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

2 percent as gay or lbian and 1.

CT NATIVE BREAKS BARRIER AS FIRST OPENLY-GAY NFL ACH

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

They change their pronouns, go to school danc wh people of the same genr, and are more likely than any prev generatn to openly intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr or otherwise queer. Many young transgenr and gay people have been affected by a wave of recent Republin-led legislatn qutng their inty or puttg rtrictns on their liv.

It’s a different world om when his olr sister, Brianna Henrson, attend jt seven years ago, when there were very few openly gay stunts. Often, young people don’t intify only one tegory, and thk of them as overlappg: “The majory of my iends and peers are bisexual or pansexual, more than jt straight-up gay or lbian or trans, ” said Jareth Leiker, a high school stunt Portland, Ore.

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

Rearchers say that as beg gay or transgenr beme more accepted, more people me out of the closet than prev generatns, and earlier.

It’s a very gay school. In 2014, the basketball player Jason Colls beme the first openly gay athlete one of the four major North Amerin pro sports leagu, and a year later, Calyn Jenner, the Olympian and Kardashian, me out as transgenr. Gay, lbian or.

Four 10 said they knew numero gay, lbian or bisexual people high school, pared wh a quarter of the olr group. And while both groups reported hearg the words “gay” and “queer” ed negatively at siar rat — a data pot reflected terviews wh teenagers, who say they still hear “that’s so gay” school hallways — the younger graduat were signifintly more likely to hear those words ed a posive light, too.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

They were also more likely to have a gay-straight alliance or siar club at their school. Four charts showg that more young people today intify as gay, lbian or bisexual; more approve of gay marriage; fewer reported harassment high school; more say their school had a gay-straight alliance. Support for transgenr rights lags that for gay rights, and ’s easier to be a young gay person than a young trans person, teenagers said.

About 70 percent of high school stunts who intify as gay, lbian or bisexual reported persistent sadns, acrdg to recent data om the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, twice the rate of their heterosexual peers.

Homophobic remarks among stunts are more mon Southern and ral schools, and ls so at private schools and the Wt and Northeast, acrdg to GLSEN. Young people are also affected by the culture at large, rearchers say, as anti-trans legislatn and what crics ll “Don’t Say Gay” bills reverberate across the untry. “We do face homophobic rhetoric throughout school.

I WAS OPENLY GAY ON MY HIGH SCHOOL TEAM AND HEARD SLURS ALL THE TIME

The prence of a gay-straight alliance improv the school climate as a whole, studi show, even for people who don’t participate.

SOUTHBURY, CT (WFSB) – A Connecticut native has bee the first openly gay NFL Maxen, a ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, said he didn’t want to feel like he had to lie Maxen, associate strength ach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, has publicly e out as gay. Summer mp my sophomore year, after ach left, Varsy guys held wrtlg match to terme who got the remag lockers the big varsy room.