Tag: teen

One mother shared the disheartening story of her 11-year-old son losing a friend because he’s gay. Lori Duron acted as a guest writer for the Huffington Post and shared the story of her 11-year-old son C.J. Lori shared that her son C.J. used to have a best friend named Allie. Together, the kids bonded over make-up and talking about cute boys. But things changed after Allie’s parents got mad at her reading Lori’s blog, which discusses gender non-conformity, and attended his birthday...

We have your daily dose of fun and coming out stories in this one post. In the age of promposals and viral videos, a California girl named Gina thought of an interesting way to come out to her mother. She decided to leave a surprise message for her mother to find after enjoying the ride on Disneyland’s Splash Mountain. https://twitter.com/westonnrae/status/744939874784993280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Finstinctmagazine.com%2Fpost%2Fteen-came-out-mom-through-splash-mountain-playback We only wish the daughter had documented the moment when her mother saw the picture after the ride. We’re sure that was a...

Sam Blaylock suffered horrendous abuse growing up and now hopes to inspire others I am Sam Blaylock from Portland, Oregon. My mom got pregnant with me as an accident and then both my parents decided to abort me. Thankfully, the abortion failed. It led to me being born two months premature. My dad was extremely abusive to my mother and it only got worse when I was born. When I was around four years old, my parents decided to get divorced and my...

A high school in Banks, Oregon is knee-deep in controversy after a student hung up a rainbow flag. 16-year-old Sam Munda, who's a student at Banks High School, put up the flag to promote the message that their class was a safe space for LGBTQ kids like them. "There are a lot of LGBTQ youth in Banks, which most people don't know about," Munda told the Oregonian, "because they are scared that they're going to get bullied or they aren't going...

A study by the Journal of the American Medical Association is pointing out that one in every four LGBTQ teens attemps suicide in the United States. The study, which was published recently but is based on data from 2015, was penned by UPenn’s Wharton School researchers Theodore Caputi, Davey Smith, and John Ayers. Together, the three looked over data about “sexual minority adolescents," which they ultimately decided would represent LGBQ youth (If you're wondering where the "T" is, more on...

Now we’ll be honest, this isn’t a story about a gay teen boy. Instead, it’s about a teen girl. Yes, that shouldn’t matter, but often female driven stories don’t trend well on sites like Instinct. That said, when you have such a charming and sincere story as Elle Mills’s, you have to share it no matter what. But who’s Elle Mills? Mills is a 19-year-old Canadian youtube who creates stories in her videos. The videos are not quite vlogs but they do...

A teenager was strangled and forced to apologise for being gay during a sick homophobic attack on a Tube train, police said. The 19-year-old's attackers allegedly threatened to stab him and placed him in a headlock until he struggled to breathe during the attack on a Jubilee line train. One of the victim's female friends, 25, was punched and pushed to the ground when she came to his defence, police said. British Transport Police said officers were treating the incident as a...

The Attacker Claims He Was Punishing The Victim For Lying About His Age! This story is a complete nightmare. Can we all be honest for a moment? I’m not mathematician, but I’d be willing to bet probably 80% of LGBTQ men have met someone off the Internet by this point in our lives. I recall getting access to America Online chatrooms before I hit ten-years-old. My mother would scold me to not even talk to strangers or give out personal...

The first trailer is out for the upcoming film Love, Simon. We reported on this film earlier as being one to watch. No, this isn’t the next gay Oscar bait film that’s been praised at indie film award ceremonies. In fact, the reason this film is on everyone’s radar is because it’s the total opposite of that. Love, Simon is potentially the first gay film to get public attention because of it being backed by a large distributing company. This isn’t...

A South African man, identified on Facebook as Vuyolwethu Vee Sithathu, is happy about his relationship with his lover, Owamii Owzaa Mti, 16, who apparently is still in High School. Sithathu says he’s so in love with his “man”, and he know being gay is a sin, but then he’s ready to go to any extent, the ends of the earth, even if it’s hell fire for his lover. Sharing some love up pictures with his teenage lover on Facbook, he...

Jordan Marin-Doan pleaded not guilty of arson and murder. An Indianapolis teen was arrested last week in connection to a house fire that left his adoptive father Jason Doan, 45, dead, ABC affiliate RTV6 reports. Charged as an adult, Jordan Marin-Doan, 16, pleaded not guilty to the charges of arson and murder. Doan’s husband, Alan Marin, told police that they awoke to find a fire blocking the staircase that lead to the exit of their family home. Before succumbing to the flames,...

16 year old Jordan Marin-Doan has been charged as an adult with murder, arson and auto theft. He allegedly wanted to kill his adoptive parents, who are gay, so “he could get a cell next to his biological father in prison.” He was arrested on Saturday in connection to the fire that killed one of his adoptive fathers, 45 year old Jason Doan, last Thursday. His husband Alan, were awoken find a fire blocking their exit. Jason was able to get...

Attackers caught the assault on video A teen was stripped of his clothes, possessions and was then beaten for being gay. The 17-year-old was lured to the area in Muskegon Heights, Michigan where he was accosted by another young man. Suspect 18-year-old Trevon Godbolt was arrested yesterday and will be arraigned today (8 November). Teen filmed as he was stripped, beaten and robbed The assault was captured in a horrific and graphic video, which we will not be publishing to protect the victim, and...

We’ve all felt those butterflies in our stomach at the anticipation of getting a response to a note, a text, a phone call, an email or even just a look across the room from that one special someone our heart desires. Throw the complexity of being closeted into the mix and you have yourself a tornado of emotions that is indescribable and weird. For many of us, we’ve experienced this in our teenage years—you know, that awkward stage when...