“The National Day of Silence is a day of action in which students across the country vow to take a form of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools.” Click Here for a step by step guide to help your GSA plan for this event! Visit dayofsilence.org for more resources, tools, and to register your GSA … [Read more...]

“A 10-year-old coalition of religious congregations is reaching out with its message of welcoming the gay, lesbian, transgender and queer communities into their churches and temples.  Out in Our Faith, which includes 24 faith institutions from across Santa Cruz County, is planning four events in 2015 to expand awareness and provoke discussion.” Read the full article in The Santa Cruz Sentinel … [Read more...]

“Organizers announced last September that the group OUT@NBCUniversal, whose members work at the television network that broadcasts the parade, would be added to the parade's lineup, ending a ban on gay and lesbian participation in the city’s largest celebration of Irish American heritage. But the decision to admit just one group failed to quell calls for wider inclusion of gays.” Read the full article in The LA Times … [Read more...]

“As Oregon welcomes the nation’s first openly-bisexual governor, more than 750 teachers, counselors and other youth-serving professionals are gathering in Portland for the HRC Foundation’s annual Time to THRIVE conference devoted to supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth.” Read more at The Human Rights Campaign Blog … [Read more...]

“As a gay, undocumented person of color — who has not only a college degree but an illustrious career — Vargas explains that his experience of America has been one of connecting the dots of his seemingly disparate identities. That's what led him to launch his nonprofit group, Define American, which he describes as an organization ‘challenging media and creating media in hopes of changing culture.’” Read more in The Advocate … [Read more...]

“The road to gay rights at the U.S. Supreme Court began not in San Francisco or New York, but in a small downtown Los Angeles office, where volunteer writers and editors in 1953 launched a new ‘magazine for homosexuals...’” Read more in the LA Times … [Read more...]

Take a look at all the LGBT-inclusive nominees for: The People’s Choice Awards, Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards, NAACP Image Awards, Grammy Awards, and the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Visit GLAAD to see the full list … [Read more...]

“I am a non binary, mixed race, black trans artist, organizer, healer, educator and the founder of Black Trans Media. I am deeply committed to transformative justice, the power of the people, arts for liberation, the gifts of our own spirit medicine and I come from a youth organizing background. In 2000 I founded a GSA in my high school and got heavily involved in GLSEN student organizing and anti-oppression facilitation, this saved my life. Through LGBT/student of color organizing and community building I developed a language, a reason, and … [Read more...]

“The 40 of the Forty list gives lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth who have experiences with homelessness and/or housing instability a chance to speak for themselves. Youth are the experts of their own truths, and we aim to honor their voices and their stories. Our goal is to inspire hope and help reduce the stigma often associated with housing instability and homelessness.” See the entire list at truecolorsfund.org/forty … [Read more...]

“The Australian woman’s 19-year-old son, Kai Bogert, recently came out to her as transgender. To show her support, Yolanda took out a classified in the births section of The Courier-Mail to make a retraction of sorts.” Read more at MTV … [Read more...]