Archive for January 2015
Tips For Making Your LGBT Child’s Life Easier
Family Acceptance Is Key According to multiple studies, family acceptance can make all the difference to GLBT children. If rejected by families during adolescence, these youth were 8.4 times more…
Read MoreHow Do You Know If Your Child Is Gay?
I’m often asked “how do you know if your child is gay?” After all, there is no litmus test for sexuality. Adolescence is a time of exploration and trying on…
Read MoreDon’t Be Tempted By Gay-to-Straight Therapy!
It’s Not A Fix! A few weeks ago, Leelah Alcorn, 17 years old, a transgender renamed “Joshua,” from Kings Mills, Ohio, committed suicide. Unfortunately, forty percent of transgenders attempt suicide.…
Read MoreThe Gay Marriage Cases That Quote Loving V. Virginia, 48 Years Later
In 1967, a year before the peaceful Nobel prize-winning Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, the Supreme Court invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage. A mixed-race couple named Mildred Jeter, 17,…
Read More“Come On Down, The Weather Is Great,” but…
….You don’t worry about shoveling snow or falling on ice in Florida. In many ways, life seems easier. Barefoot, you can walk out in the a.m. to the end of…
Read MoreWoo-hoo! Florida Becomes 36th State with Marriage Equality!
Gay Marriage Starts in Florida Jan. 9th, but sooner in Miami-Dade. I was beginning to think marriage equality would never come to Florida, my home and third largest state! With…
Read MoreYou Are What You Shop
As a straight ally, I try to avoid businesses that smack of homophobia. For example, when I go to the mall in my county in which I live, I will…
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