Youth

Courtesy GLSEN – Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network… THE HISTORY OF THE NO NAME-CALLING WEEK PROJECT No Name-Calling Week was inspired by a young adult novel entitled “The Misfits” by popular author, James Howe. The book tells the story of four best friends trying to survive the seventh grade in the face of all

Another teen, Phillip Parker, has committed suicide due to anti-gay bullying. This time it’s Tennessee, a state with some of the most aggressive anti-gay bills and laws in the country. They virtually don’t even want the word gay mentioned there. Sadly, Parker’s case follows a spate of LGBT-related controversy in the state of Tennessee. In

Jennifer Crow has taken over as Librarian at the Arne Nixon Center in the Henry Madden Library at Fresno State, after Angelica Carpenter retired. I visited her to speak about the Student Empowerment Project. The Project, in its infant stages, hopes to get LGBT books, along with speakers and video presentations into all local high

Victoria Benavides is the Central Valley Program Coordinator for GSA Network . I sat down with her at the Fresno LGBT Community Center to talk about the state of GSA’s in the Central Valley, the upcoming ENS Conference and how students facing harassment or discrimination at their schools can use available tools to report and

While working my shift at the Fresno LGBT Community Center, over just a two week period of time, I received several phone calls regarding bullying in our local schools. All were from parents or those hoping to help a younger person who was facing this terrible danger. We hear daily about bullying stories from across