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Youth Cultures
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 Free
Your Mind : The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Youth--And Their Allies by
Ellen Bass, Kate Kaufman (Contributor)
A practical resource
guide for gay teenagers and college students helps gay
youth understand, accept, and celebrate their sexual
orientation; overcome obstacles; make healthy choices
about relationships and sex; and participate in the gay
and lesbian community.
In a groundbreaking book
that weaves together their professional experience with
the lively, poignant, immediate voices of dozens of gay
and lesbian youths, the authors provide an invaluable
step-by-step guide to empowering gay youth to understand,
accept and celebrate their sexual orientation. Photos.
Visit David
Richardson's Website dedicated to Free Your Mind.
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Meet Ben Barton, the youngest,
most published gay poet in Britain today. Features: photographs,
archive of poems, contact information, biography and more.
Ben
Barton lives in Folkestone, England and has now been successfully
writing and publishing for five years.
Alongside this he is also active in readings, performances
and workshops at dozens of venues nationwide. Ben has had
hundreds of poems published internationally in a variety
of publications. These include:
Isibongo, The Curates Egg, Poetry Church, Acorn, New
Horizon, Time Haiku, Linkway, Poets Haven, Sci-Fright,
Taoism and Poetry, Roadworks, Jugular and the
prestigious writers journal Scriptor, along with
countless other small-press publications.
Aged just eighteen, Ben is arguably the youngest, most
published poet in Britain today.
Ben won the Kent Faber & Faber (UK) Poetry Competition
for National Poetry Day two years consecutively. In 1998
he was a winner in the National Competition judged by
Roger McGough and Wendy Cope.
His work has also been used by hospitals in Pennsylvania,
USA as part of a counseling scheme to comfort bereaved
parents in ´OB´ units.
He has performed his work as part of the Canterbury
Streetlevel Festival and held readings through the ´Ottakars´
chain of bookshops. His work has also been examined in the
biggest-selling writing magazine in the UK, Writers News.
Fighting against oppression as a gay writer, Ben is
working to break down barriers and to share his work
through performance and publishing. Also, he is currently
studying for a HND in Performing Arts, at South Kent
College.
He has also been awarded poetry prizes by The Marlowe
Theatre (Streetlevel) and Poetry Update.
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Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating
programs and promoting policies which help young people make
informed and responsible decisions about their sexual health.
We provide information, training, and advocacy to youth-serving
organizations, policy makers, and the media in the U.S. and
internationally.
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A safe and secure gay youth online community web
site featuring, chat, forums, support, resources, gaymes and more.
Made for gay teens, by gay teens!
"Because...One lifestyle doesn't fit all"
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A part of youthresource.com,
this site has resources by and for deaf queer youth, as well as
for hearing queer youth.
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ELIGHT is an online community for glbt youth and
young adults. We provide a safe forum for youth to speak out, to
share, and to find others like themselves in times when they feel
the loneliest. ELIGHT was created to
allow all gay youth help understand their sexuality and to have a
place to express concerns with other gay youth.
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The target audience is gay youth, though adults
are welcome (and encouraged) to participate and help out.
The site offers AIDS information, coming out tips, comic strips,
discussion forums and more.
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The mission of National Youth Advocacy Coalition
is to advocate for and with young people who are lesbian, gay,
bisexual, or transgender in an effort to end discrimination
against these youth and to ensure their physical and emotional
well being.
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OutProud, The National Coalition for Gay,
Lesbian & Bisexual Youth, serves the needs of these young men
and women by providing advocacy, information, resources and
support. Our goal is to help lesbigay youth become happy,
successful, confident and vital gay, lesbian and bisexual adults.
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The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project utilizes proactive
strategies to improve the treatment of LGBT persons in K-12
educational systems. Advocates for The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project
provide testimony before state and local boards of education, meet
with educational policy makers at all levels of government, inform
the public about educational equity issues, and furnish various
resources for addressing these subjects in the classroom. We call
for an end to the censorship of information about our communities
in textbooks, course content, resource materials, and library
offerings associated with public education.
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A project of advocates for youth.
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Scouting For All is a nonprofit organization
made up of scouts, adult leaders and concerned individuals outside
of scouting dedicated to ending the discrimination of the Boy
Scouts of America towards gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered
youth and adults. Scouting For All is also advocating that the Boy
Scouts of America end its discrimination against girls and
atheists.
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As a youth service agency serving the
metropolitan area of Washington, DC, including Maryland and
Northern Virginia, our mission is to support and enhance the
self-esteem of sexual minority youth - any youth (13-21) who is
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), or who may be
questioning their sexuality - and to increase public awareness and
understanding of their issues.
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Youth Assistance Organization (YAO or YOUTH.ORG)
is a service run by volunteers, created to help self-identifying
gay, lesbian, bisexual and questioning youth. YAO exists to
provide young people with a safe space online to be themselves.
This organization was formed to provide for the needs of queer
youth; the need for a rare opportunity to express themselves, to
know they are not alone, and to interact with others who have
already accepted their sexuality.
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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.
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The Youth Pride Alliance celebrates the dignity
and courage of all young people as they discover their identities
as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or straight, and
challenges society to stop the hate, the violence, the fear, the
isolation, and the denial. Every young person deserves to live,
love, and be loved.
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As youth united, we stand committed
to achieving recognition of the role youth participants play in the
queer civil rights movement and to resolving the fractures within
our community by creating a unified model for the movement that
prides itself on principles of inclusion, civility, and universal
respect. Furthermore, in an effort to attain equality, we hope
that our demonstration will empower gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgendered youth, their families and allies, to respond by taking
action in their own communities.
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