https://bestforyou.org.uk/mental-health-support-in-ealing/

#NHS #MentalHealth #support #YoungPeople #YoungWomen #LGBTQYouth #Ealing #UK

#ConversionTherapy legislation trending. Signed #UTLeg codifying Utah’s administrative ban on conversion therapy, including the highly debated practice of "talk therapy".
#LGBTQYouth #LGBTQRights
https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1527590

TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY

LOVE, VICTOR - 6/17/2020, Hulu

This series about a gay teenaged boy in Atlanta, set in the same universe as the film LOVE, SIMON, debuted on this date in 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S_hn6wJ0g4

#television #series #LoveVictor #QueerYouth #GayYouth #LGBTQYouth #gay #queer #LGBTQ

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THE FOSTERS - 6/10/2013, ABC Family

Episode 2 of this warm family drama about a lesbian couple and their numerous children (a mix of biological, adopted and foster kids), including one little boy who will later come out as gay.
This was the network's online promo for the episode.

https://youtu.be/4F4qqqBtrks

#television #series #MediaStudies #lesbian #LGBTQ #queer #QueerYouth #LGBTQYouth

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DONAHUE: "Gay High School" - 6/10/1985, Syndicated

Today in 1985 on this popular daytime talk show, Steve Shlomo Ashkinazy of the Institute for the Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth (now the Hetrick-Martin Institute), playwright/activist Larry Kramer, and others discussed New York City's newly opened Harvey Milk High School, a small school created for kids who had dropped out of other schools due to homophobic violence or harassment.

https://youtu.be/sdZ8ASNlYHc

#QueerYouth #LGBTQYouth #television #TalkShows #education #PhilDonahue #LarryKramer

Drew Leclair is back on the case! The 2nd volume in the exciting series starring a queer girl detective is out now! #QueerKidLit #QueerYouth #LGBTQYouth https://mombian.com/database/drew-leclair-crushes-the-case/

Boys & Girls Clubs (a US charity organization for at-risk, school-aged children and adolescents): "We provide safe, positive, inclusive spaces for #LGBTQyouth." (paraphrased)

Also Boys & Girls Clubs: promotes Chik-fil-A at events; has no reputation for supporting anyone LGBTQ; and apparently disregards basic pandemic safety measures, ignoring that LGBTQ members, typically in poor homes or homeless, are at greater long-term risk from infections as they're less likely to be given medical care.

“People get pretty worn out on doing this, and doing it without the support of the organization that we hope to achieve through the union.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ak85j/the-trevor-project-union-lgbtq-suicide-hotline
#News #TheTrevorProject #LGBTQyouth #unions #anti-lgbtqlegislation #Politics

Hate is in 'navy blue' Mass. too: It's time to 'raise the volume' on love

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2023/02/07/lgbtqi-hate-racism-massachusetts-neema-avashia

#NeemaAvashia #Fascism #Massachusetts #Racism #Homophobia #Transphobia #LGBTQyouth

I just found this alarming post from the Ali Forney Center, on their Instagram account. please help spread the word.

I’m not sure how best to contact the agency, their web page has the usual drop down form to fill out… aargh

#lgbtqyouth #aliforneycenter #runaways #homelessyouth

TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY

SENIOR TRIP! (TV movie) - 12/30/1981, CBS

Teenaged hijinks in NYC. Subplot: the sensitive-painter boy, who worries he might be gay, almost makes out with a guy and then sleeps with the class's "bad girl." After sex, they both feel better about themselves.

The backstory is that the artistic boy's father is a judgmental, strict, macho cop who wouldn't be cool with having a queer son. Is the boy actually straight? Gay? Bi? We don't know at the end of the film and neither does he. It's the classic 1970s-80s TV trope: you always had to leave the teenaged character's sexuality ambiguous if there was even a whiff of queerness in the air.

#LGBTQ #queer #LGBTQYouth #MediaStudies #gay #bisexual

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MY SO-CALLED LIFE: "So-Called Angels" - 12/22/1994, ABC

Gay teen Rickie (Wilson Cruz) becomes homeless on an icy Christmas Eve after being disowned by his family in this memorable episode of the classic drama series. Actor Cruz had told the show's creator, Winnie Holzman, about being thrown out of the house in his teens when he came out as gay, and being homeless for a time, and she decided to have something similar happen to his character on the show.

If you're in the U.S., you can watch the episode on the ABC website: https://abc.com/shows/my-so-called-life/episode-guide/season-01/15-so-called-angels

#LGBTQ #gay #queer #MySoCalledLife #WilsonCruz #MediaStudies #LGBTQYouth

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THAT '70s SHOW: "Eric's Buddy" - 12/6/1998, Fox

Joseph Gordon-Levitt guest stars as Eric's cool new best friend, Buddy, who, it turns out, has a big crush on Eric.

By the 1990s, you could acknowledge the existence of queer teenagers on U.S. commercial television... a topic that had been taboo on commercial TV until around the mid-to-late 1980s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erv96Lhr-kg

#LGBTQYouth #LGBTQ #gay #queer #MediaStudies