Coming back to middle school after the pandemic lockdown was scary for me. I worried about not feeling accepted in my school community. I’m a 14-year-old nonbinary Black artist. I…
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There has been a sharp increase in the number of LGBTQ individuals personally experiencing discrimination across the United States, according to a recent report from GLAAD – 24 percent over a two-year…
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What students learn in sex ed has taken on new urgency following the Supreme Court’s decision in June to reverse Roe v. Wade, leaving abortion access up to the states.…
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Over the past decade, there have been remarkable advances in the HIV prevention, treatment and epidemic control tools used by the global community working to address HIV. Investments in scientific…
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At The Learning Accelerator, we believe an inclusive and welcoming environment is critical to push learning forward and create spaces that allow students and educators alike to engage, grow, and…
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Lesbian bars in the United States are vanishingly rare. Events that commemorate them show the value queer spaces have in communities, research shows. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, there…
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A new publication from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Violent Victimization by Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, 2017-2020, supports the vast evidence we already have that LGBT people — and particularly…
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Click here for more.Over the course of the last year, anti-LGBTQ+ hate has dovetailed with a movement for control over what is taught in schools in ways that threaten to erase the experiences of these…
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This year, Pride has felt particularly important, as communities of color, queer, trans, and gender-expansive communities, and our country faces some of the toughest attacks we’ve ever seen on trans…
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In our recent analysis of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, a representative health survey of high school-age Americans at the school district, state and national levels, we found that about…
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Pro-LGBTQI+ organisations receive just 0.35 percent of philanthropic funding; anti-LGBTQI+ organisations actively campaigning for the reversal of our rights are far better funded. One organisation alone spent $622m on stopping…
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With an unprecedented rise in the number of youth identifying as LGBTQ — and equally unprecedented efforts to curtail their rights — a leading national advocacy group is calling on…