Tag: LGBTI teens

HRC Asks Education Secy Betsy DeVos "How Do You Sleep At Night?" After interviewing over 12,000 LGBTQ teenagers, the HRC Foundation and the University of Connecticut has released the largest-of-its-kind survey detailing the anxiety and challenges so many of them face going regarding their daily lives at home, at school and in their communities. With teens ranging in age from 13 to 17, and from all 50 states and Washington D.C., the survey reveals teenagers are not only experiencing stressful levels...

Hello there, I'm a 15 year old young gay man and I'd like to bring your attention to the cause I am trying to champion. LGBTI Youth need to be able to connect with others like them, and im trying to help make that happen. I'v started a new site SORA (Supporters of Rainbow Adolescents) of along with my parents to help kids connect with each other on the Internet, in real life and all over the globe. To undestand the...

A pastor who said the victims of the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando “got what they deserved” has been found guilty on eight molestation charges for a sexual relationship he had with a 15 year-old boy and girl from his church. Monday’s verdict came after just an hour of deliberation by the jury, finding against Kenneth Adkins, 57, who has a prior record and due to Georgia‘s mandatory minimum sentencing laws may never again be a free man,...

This boy, who went to a course intended to turn him into a 'man', died at just 15. This picture shows a skeletal, emaciated figure fighting for his life. Raymond Buys was starved and tortured and even forced to eat his own feces. Severely malnourished, dehydrated, with burns and wounds all over his body, he lay in intensive care for four weeks until he died. He was just 15. Just 10 weeks before, the teen’s parents signed him up in 2011 for the...