Tag: teen

Disney Channel show Andi Mack recently made history when it featured the network’s first ever gay storyline. Produced by Lizzie McGuire creator Terri Minsky, Andi Mack is played by Peyton Elizabeth Lee – a girl who discovered that her older sister is actually her mother. In the episode – which aired last week – Andi discovers that her best friend Cyrus (played by Joshua Rush) has a crush on the same boy she does. It’s part of a storyline that will see...

Actor Tommy Dorfman recently took to Twitter to speak of sexual abuse that he says took place when he was a teenager. The 13 Reasons Why star spoke of an incident that he says occurred when he was 14-years-old, while commending actor Anthony Rapp for his courage. As you've likely heard, Rapp recently told BuzzFeed that Kevin Spacey allegedly made a "sexual advance” toward him at a party, when Rapp himself was 14-years-old. https://twitter.com/tommydorfman/status/925091508482490368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Finstinctmagazine.com%2Fpost%2Ftommy-dorfman-says-he-was-sexually-assaulted-and-abused-when-he-was-14 Dorfman also retweeted other Twitter users who commented on...

One brave teen decided to take the plunge live on national TV on Tuesday night. Coming out to friends and family can be one of the hardest decisions LGBT people ever have to face, but one 16-year-old boy has provided a welcome source of inspiration for others after deciding to take the plunge live on national television. Eighty 16 to 22-year-olds were been invited to share their views as part of BBC Newsbeat’s Generation Misunderstood? programme, which aired on the BBC...

The teens have all been given a six-month prison sentence for attack on a gay couple Three UK teenagers were jailed today after pleading guilty to attacking two train passengers because of their sexuality. Two of the male teens were aged 16 and the other aged 17. They attacked Phil Poole and Zbynek Zatloukal while they were heading home from a night out in Reading. One of the 16-year olds walked through the carriage after the three boarded the train and spotted Poole...

Gay streaming site Dekkoo wins distribution rights to 'sexy, offbeat' Finnish drama Sponsored: Gay streaming site Dekkoo is adding the year’s most hotly-anticipated LGBTI film to its lineup. The breakout service won all distribution rights to the Finnish gay drama Screwed (or ‘Pihalla’) last week. The film focuses on a summer of sexual experimentation between two handsome 17-year-olds, Miku and Elia. Serving as a backdrop is the sublime Finnish countryside. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voWqDkKoj2E ‘Sexy, offbeat and throughly refreshing’ Dekkoo President Brian Sokel, Screwed director Nils-Erik Ekblom and producer...

'I'm going to walk in with a f**king machete and slaughter every single one of the gay bastards' Police arrested a teenager after he threatened to go into a British pub with a machete and kill gay people at a Pride event. The teenager, who cannot be named, posted a photo of the machete he bought for £19.99 ($25.40 €22.70), as well as his intentions to use it at the New Empire pub in Barrow in Furness, Cumbria on Friday night...

His attackers called him pondan (f****t) as they beat, burned and raped him An 18-year-old student who was viciously beaten, burnt and raped with a blunt object has died from his injuries. T Nhaveen was attacked on Saturday at about 2.20am in a field in George Town, Penang – an island in Malaysia. He was left brain dead and hospitalised. Nhaveen died on Thursday at 5.31pm (Penang time) according to a report in The Star. Nhaveen was attacked a day before he was...

A teen who was beaten and sexually assaulted by former classmates now lies brain dead in a hospital in Malaysia. Eighteen-year-old T. Nhaveen had just finished his shift at a supermarket in Bayan Lepas when he and best friend Previin, 19, went to get a bite at a nearby burger joint. According to police, the two were accosted outside the restaurant by two former schoolmates who began to taunt Nhaveen. (The pair had previously bullied him in school for being effeminate.)...

'We want to show it is possible to be out and happy in a small community' A gay couple are set to appear on MTV’s Promposal series. The TV show documents the lengths teenagers go to to invite their boyfriend or girlfriend to their senior prom. There will be a total of sex episodes, but gay couple Ambrose and Caddell will be featured in the fourth episode of the series. “Asking Noah to prom was something I’ll remember for the rest of my...

A gay couple have said that they feel “shook up” after a homophobic attack on them by two teenagers in Brooklyn, New York. Tanner Gardella, 25, and Gino Boffa, 26, were walking arm-in-arm when two boys aged 13 and 15 called the pair “faggots” for wearing skinny jeans.  Boffa stopped and asked the teens to repeat themselves — and that was when the situation escalated. “It went from 0 to 60. They shoved us and started spitting at us calling us ‘faggot.’ That’s...

Jasper and Ronnie Vernes-Sewratan were brutalized last Sunday, reportedly because they were holding hands in public. Thousands of Dutch men walked hand-in-hand this week, after Jasper Vernes-Sewratan and Ronnie Sewratan-Vernes were attacked by five youths for holding hands in Arnhem last Sunday. But now one of the suspects claims their sexual orientation is “irrelevant” to the case: The unnamed youth maintains he was provoked—that one of the couple threw the first punch. He also denied using a bolt-cutter in the attack,...

RIP Jonas Correia dos Santos A gay teen was shot and killed in Brazil on Monday night (27 March). Jonas Correia dos Santos was killed in the village of Chá do Pai Gonçalo, in the eastern Brazilian state of Alagoas. He was just 18 years old. According to Brazilian media, he is the third gay man to be killed in the state in 2017. So far, authorities have not named a suspect in the crime. They have also not said whether it is being treated...

RIP Julia Derbyshire A 16-year-old was repeatedly bullied online over her sexuality before she killed herself, her father has said. Julia Derbyshire was 12 years old when she said to her friend: ‘I’m not sure yet but I think I like girls.’ Her ‘friend’ then spread her feelings around school, and Julia was subjected to vile bullying. Four years later she hanged herself. Adrian Derbyshire, 42, has released photos of his daughter on a ventilator in hospital to raise awareness of playground and online bullying. ‘She...

Local gang member Joaquin is majorly closeted and majorly sexy Riverdale is off to a sexy start on The CW and gay teen Kevin Keller is in the thick of the action. In last week’s episode, Kevin (Casey Cott) hooked up passionately with Joaquin (Rob Raco) at the drive-in. Joaquin is a member of the local gang the Southside Serpents and his group is being disruptive during the movie. Kevin tries to quiet them and is confronted by Joaquin at the snack bar. Kevin...