Tag: teenagers

In the week since a gay teenager was fired from his gig as a counselor for a Christian organization’s summer camp, parents have started pulling their kids from the camp in question. 18-year-old Jace Taylor was fired on June 11, days before he was due to start working the summer-long job at Fircreek, one of the camps operated by the Firs Bible and Missionary Conference, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. The firing made headlines after Taylor’s father posted about it on Facebook,...

This past Saturday, in a lengthy Twitter thread, Peter Delacroix shared the story of a gay 17-year-old who had committed suicide as a result of bullying and ridicule. Delacroix woke up to an email from a teen he referred to as “Max” that was clearly a suicide note. Max was one of a group of queer teenagers that Delacroix counsels as a Youth Pastor at his church. He immediately rushed to Max’s house, but it was too late. Max had hanged...

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has named Call Me By Your Name its 2017 Best Picture winner, with the film’s young star Timothée Chalamet also picking up Best Actor as the independent gay romantic drama added to its early awards-season haul Saturday. The film’s director, Luca Guadagnino, shared the association’s Best Director prize with Guillermo del Toro, whose film The Shape of Water also landed Sally Hawkins the Best Actress prize. Supporting actor honors went to Willem Dafoe and Laurie...

Gay teenagers Joey and Thomas were told their quotes could "offend." Two gay students have spoken out after discovering that their inspirational coming out quotes were removed from their high school yearbooks. Joey Slivinski and Thomas Swartz, who attend Kearny High School, Missouri, were shocked to find that quotes alluding to their sexuality had been censored by the school after being deemed ‘offensive’. Joey had written underneath his senior yearbook picture: ‘Of course I dress well. I didn’t spend all that time...

Two teenagers have been jailed over a shocking homophobic attack on two gay men. 18-year-old Gage Vye-Parminter and 19-year-old Matthew Howes were sentenced to five years and four months in a young offender institution today at Brighton Crown Court. The pair were found guilty over a homophobic attack on Brighton seafront on May 2 year. The victims, a 22 and 24-year-old man, said the pair followed them along the seafront shouting homophobic insults before their shocking attack. The 22-year old man sustained fractured...