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December 2007
YouthResource and GLBTQ Initiative e-News Update
Feature: "It's one, two, three strikes, you're out, at the old ball game!"
A day in the life of a young queer person of color
Every day I wake up, stretch my arms, kick my blanket off my body, take a look in the mirror and the first thing that comes to mind is, oh yeah I'm a person of color and then it hits me that I am also part of the queer community and finally I'm a youth. Starting off every day with three strikes against me leaves me with the feeling that I am, indefinitely, "out".
Let me introduce myself, my name is E, yes that's right just E. I am 19, brown and queer. Every morning I am faced with the fact that just by existing I face obstacles most of my other peers never have to go through. Queer People of Color (QPOC) face many struggles. We can encounter challenges, feeling as if we are "other" within the Queer community AND within communities of color, yet these differences can be totally separate from each other. On the other hand these "issues" or feelings of "otherness" may also intersect at some points, creating new isolated differences.
Read more at http://www.youthresource.com/living/features/comingout.htm.
Meet the 2007- 08 Peer Educators!
Crystallee, Devin, E., Jesse, Julie, Lauren, Marika, Michael, Nick, Nickie, Taryn and Theodora are here to answer your questions about sexual orientation, gender identity, or sexual health.
Our online peer education program, YouthResource, offers peer-to-peer support. Through brief bios from peer educators of diverse backgrounds, Web site visitors can select an online peer educator that they would feel comfortable communicating with. Online peer educators answer questions posed by visitors and point them to appropriate resources but online peer educators do not provide medical advice.
Visit http://www.youthresource.com/peer/index.htm.
Announcements
LGBT Students of Color: Speak Out!
GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) is looking for students to be part of a study about the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students of color. You can help GLSEN inform education policymakers and the public about what's really going on in our nation's schools.
If you...
- currently attend a U.S. high school (grades 9-12),
- are a person of color,
- are lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender, and
- would like more information about participating...
Please contact Elizabeth Diaz, Research Associate, at ediaz@glsen.org or 212-727-0135 (extension 8051). All participants will be compensated for their time. Please note that participants will be required to get written permission from a parent or guardian in order to participate.
Make EC Available Over-the-Counter for ALL Women
A Petition to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
In America, where 95 percent of the annual 750,000 teenage pregnancies are unintended and quality reproductive services for young women are often limited, activists like you must take action to make emergency contraception more widely available.
Advocates for Youth and Choice USA urge you to Take Action! It has been one year since the FDA's ruling to make over-the-counter sales of EC available only to women ages 18 and older. We continue to ask for the removal of this age restriction.
Learn more and sign the petition!
Creating Change is 20
That's right, it's that time again! The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Creating Change Conference is the nation's preeminent political, leadership and skills-building conference for the LGBT movement. During the past two decades, Creating Change has been the place where thousands of committed people have developed and honed their skills, celebrated victories, built community, and been inspired by visionaries of our and other movements for justice and equality.
Join the Task Force in celebrating 20 remarkable years of training activist leaders and nurturing community. The deadline for submission of workshop proposals September 30, 2007. The conference registration deadline is January 15, 2008.
Click here to learn more about Creating Change or register: http://www.thetaskforce.org/events/creating_change
Got questions about sexual orientation, gender identity, or sexual health?
Ask one of your peers!
Our online peer education program, YouthResource, offers peer-to-peer support. Through brief bios from peer educators of diverse backgrounds, Web site visitors can select an online peer educator that they would feel comfortable communicating with. Online peer educators answer questions posed by visitors and point them to appropriate resources but online peer educators do not provide medical advice.
Visit http://www.youthresource.com/peer/index.htm.
You can help Advocates for Youth with a contribution today. To donate, visit http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/about/donatetoday.htm
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