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Welcome to the Youth Resources Page. Browse the informative links, find a book, search the internet, or tour the webrings.
!OutProud!, The National Coalition for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth
A big website with tons of information, message boards and online brochures to find information on issues relating to sexual orientation
PFLAG, Can We Understand?
Coming out to parents can be a very traumatic time for both you and your parents. Check the information on the URL listed here and consider printing it out. If you don't want to give it directly to them, you could think about leaving it in a place where they can "discover" it to read while they are alone. It can help to settle their emotions once you have told them about being gay.
Youth Assistance Organization (YAO or YOUTH.ORG)
A service run by volunteers, created to help self-identifying gay, lesbian, bisexual and questioning youth. YAO exists to provide young people with a safe space online to be themselves.
Gayteens.org
Free independent counselling service designed primarily for gay teen's to communicate their fears and concerns with someone over the internet.
The Trevor Project
On August 11, 1998, The Trevor Project launched The Trevor Helpline, the first round-the-clock national toll-free suicide hotline for gay and questioning youth. It's open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Teens with nowhere to turn can call 800-850-8078, where they can talk to trained counselors, find local resources and take important steps on their way to becoming healthy adults. All calls are free and confidential.
Oasis Youth, the home of Oasis
The only online magazine for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth. Each month Oasis brings you news and entertainment written by and about queer youth. It's a desert out there, so come to the Oasis!
!OutProud!, Watching Out For Yourself In Online Relationsips
Electronic services allow people freedoms that the real world does not. Forty-year-old men can become a teenagers again. Wedding bands aren't at all visible in the on-line world. And everyone's body tends to become thin and smaller when they log on (well, not all areas get smaller). The problem is that some people think that everyone is a potential sex partner, simply because you share the same sexual orientation. And they know that they can manipulate a gay teen, playing on your sense of wanting to be wanted. Or convincing you that certain sexual activities are what being lesbian or gay is all about.
Gayzoo
A list of search engine results with resources for youth and students
Letter to A Friend
The letter is to a friend who is coming out and about self-acceptance. This site is a person's diary and has a weekly newsletter.
Rainbow Query - Youth
Search site which has compiled some of the best general interest glbt youth sites. It also has many categories such as "youth coming out", "youth websites", "youth groups", "youth home pages" and more.
The Cool Page For Queer Teens
Answers questions when you are considering coming out or have been outed, school or home problems, safe sex information and religious issues.
Queer Resources Directory
23,628 files worth of information of every sort including "Queer Youth."
The Other Queer Youth Page
"Over 1400 sorted links and growing of the best of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender resources available on the Web, ranging from coming out to getting involved in the fight for equal rights."
One Out of Every Ten
"A high impact site created by a 16 year old gay teenager to vividly express his personal experience on his journey of sexual discovery being a gay. This site also features a collection of true stories and experiences of gay, lesbian and bisexuals and at the same time, fights to stop homophobia. Perhaps what makes this site so powerful and emotionally moving is that everything here is ... real and true."
Out List
"The purpose of the Out List is to celebrate the accomplishments of our community and to show people, especially those struggling with their sexuality, that hundreds of prominent persons have come out as homosexual or bisexual and kept their careers, their fortunes, and the love and respect of others." This list was made in 1995...many people could be added to the list today. For example, Ellen Degeneres, Anne Heche and Sean P. Hayes.
Queer Youth Resources from Community United Against Violence
"CUAV has a long history of working with young queer people. We speak before thousands of young people through our Lesbian and Gay Speakers Bureau with the the twin goals of providing positive models for out and questioning youth and educating young minds about what it is like to be queer in the hopes that they will be less likely to bash or taunt us." They have some youth resource links, too.
This Way Out
An award-winning internationally distributed gay and lesbian radio program, currently airing on over 100 stations around the world. Interviews with authors & performers, news feature stories, music By openly-lesbigay recording artists, humor, poetry, readings from gay/lesbian literature.
Matthew Shepard International
International Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Resources...resources from all over the world
Corey Johnson Coming Out
"In all the years I’ve done this work, there’s been no story that’s inspired so many people so thoroughly,” says Jeff Perrotti, 41, Northeast coordinator for the partially publicly funded Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and a gay rights activist for the past 20 years. “I think what’s important is it’s a story that shows what’s possible and it raises people’s expectation."
National Youth Advocacy Coalition
"Improving the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth"
Youth Guardian Services
"Providing Internet services and resources to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, questioning and supportive youth"
People with a History
"An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History"
Androphile Gay History Project
"An overview of "gay" love over the centuries, weaving together Greek, Roman, Arab, Chinese, Japanese and Native American mythology, erotic art, and the history of "homosexuality" into a coherent whole."
About.com-Gay, Lesbian and Bi Teens
Current articles, helpful discussions and support groups
MORE RESOURCES
BOOKS
Best Little Boy in the World by John Reid
The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up by Andrew Tobias
Two Teenagers in Twenty : Writings by Gay & Lesbian Youth by Ann Heron
Free Your Mind : The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth--And Their Allies by Ellen Bass, Kate Kaufman
All my thanks to "fg" for inspiring the creation of this page, the banner and for most of the links and text. Thank you to those who have contributed links and support for this page. All suggested links to pages which will help and support youth are appreciated.
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