General Resources for Queer Youth
National Gay and Lesbian Task ForceHere you can find information about ongoing Queer rights legislation as well as find out what is going on locally for you. NGLTF (National Gay and Lesbian Task Force) supports the work of youth and provides leadership development conferences.
The Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network
Provides information on how to create safe space in school for Queer youth.
You'll find a cool resource center, information on the current issues facing
Queer youth, as well as news about what is going on right now.
Where
Are the Youth?!
This resource from GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network) looks at how to make GLSEN
chapters and other GLBPTQQI (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Pansexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex) organizations more youth-inclusive. Learn how to
advocate for queer communities to be more welcoming to youth!
Resource for UU Youth Who are Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay,
Transgender, Queer or Questioning (PDF, 4.45 MB)
This resource, created
by former YRUU (Young Religious Unitarian Universalist) Programs Specialist Jason Lydon, is designed in a cool zine
format. It includes terms and language in order to build understanding of
various identities, information about coming out, and resources from within and
outside of YRUU (internet, books, movies, and Unitarian Universalist sources of
support).
Gay-Straight Alliance Network
Empowering Youth Activists to
Fight Homophobia and Transphobia
A youth-led organization that
connects school-based Gay-Straight Alliances to each other and community
resources within the state of California. Even if you don't live in California,
this organization offers lots of valuable resources on how to start and sustain
a Gay-Straight Alliance.
National Coming Out Project
National Coming Out Day
is October 11. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has information to help
questioning/queer youth who are coming out, as well as resource on how to
organize Coming Out Day events in your community.
Youth Resource: A Project of Advocates for Youth
A
site created by and for GLBTQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning) youth offering support, community, resources, and
peer education about issues of concern to GLBTQ youth. Youth Resource has
specific resource and community pages for Young Gay & Bisexual Men, Young
Women, Bisexual Youth, Transgender Youth, Youth of Color, and Deaf Queer
Youth.
The Safe Schools Coalition
A Public-Private
Partnership in Support of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth. Helps
schools—at home and all over the world—become safe places where every family
can belong, where every educator can teach, and where every child can learn,
regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.
SIGNS
A
Project of the Youth Enrichment Services Program of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
& Transgender Community Center. Resources for student leaders working to end
homophobia and heterosexism in schools.
Resources from COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere)
In My Shoes: Stories of Youth with LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Parents
In a time when LGBT families are
debated and attacked in the media, courts and Congress, from school houses to
state houses across the country, five young people give you a chance to walk in
their shoes—to hear their own views on marriage, making change, and what it
means to be a family. This film is an ideal tool for middle and high school
groups and is accompanied by a complete Action and Curriculum Guide.
Focus on MY Family: A Queerspawn Anthology
Featuring
poetry, art, essays, fiction and photography by youth with LGBT parents, Focus
on MY Family highlights diverse voices of COLAGE youth. And directly confronts
the mean-spirited rhetoric of organizations such as Focus on the Family which
attack and demean our families and experiences. COLAGE offers a discussion and r
esource guide to accompany the publication.
That’s So
Gay: Portraits of Youth with LGBT Parents
A series of 24 photo-text
pieces available on CD, That’s So Gay provides a glimpse into the lives and
experiences of children of queer families. Part of a larger, traveling art
exhibit, the CD provides educators and community organizers a unique way to
promote the visibility and awareness of the experiences of youth with LGBT
parents. A complete action guide incorporating the exhibit and programming
related to youth with LGBT parents into your community or school.
Respect
All Familes Poster Series
These two colorful, youth-created posters
promote visibility of LGBT families, counter the lack of positive images of
youth with LGBT families, fight the homophobia youth with LGBT parents have
faced in schools and communities, and counter the isolation and prejudice that
students with queer parents often face. These posters are offered for free,
though donations are always welcome.
Books
- Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora by Martin
F. Manalassan IV
- Bi Lives: Bisexual Women Tell Their Stories ed. Kata
Orndorff
- Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth
Anthology ed. Amy Sonnie
- Challenging Lesbian and Gay Inequalities in Education
Ed. Debbie Epsteing
- Coming Out of the Classroom Closet: Gay and Lesbian Teachers
and Curricula Ed. Karen M. Harbeck
- Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality: Queer
Students of Color and Anti-Oppressive Education Ed. Kevin K.
Kumashiro
- Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue About
Sexualities and Schooling Eds. William J. Letts, James T.
Sears
- Youth and Sexualities: Pleasure, Subversion, and
Insubordination In and Out of Schools Eds. Mary Louise Rasmussen, Eric
Rofes, Susan Talburt
- When the Drama Club Is Not Enough: Lessons From the Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students by Jeff Perrotti
For more information contact youth @ uua.org.
Last updated on Friday, April 18, 2008.
