Tag: Youth
Out4STEM: science with an LGBTQ spin
Two years ago, I received an email from an administrator within the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine asking me to meet with some...
UDel hires LGBT program coordinator
The University of Delaware recently hired Rebekah Harless-Balmer as its LGBT program coordinator. The position, which was created so LGBT students on campus would...
Lip-synch for your life: Philly Beauty Ball returns to Woody’s Bar
The time has come for you to lip-sync for your life. Patrons at Woody’s Bar will have the chance to embrace...
There’s a whole world out there that loves you
Most of the time, when youth come out or are about to, there’s a singular feeling that can plague them: loneliness. It may feel...
Rentboy raid raises questions on sex-workers’ rights
Like smoking, drinking and gambling, it seems as if we as a society cannot come to a clear consensus upon our vices, for better...
LGBTQ Youth Out & About
Get off the couch and out in the community this fall and winter! Netflix & Chill: Tig The William Way...
Girls in drag
Traditionally, a drag queen is nothing more than a man who dresses as a woman for the art of theater. Drag is a creative...
Poetry: BRITNEY JEAN
Have you really outgrown your blackout phase? The most intelligent conversation I’ve had on a gay bar dance floor regarded you....
Poetry: On and off
On and off like a toy I was on and off left at your discretion Lost direction deemed defective incomplete,...
Poetry: A vision of a dream
Truth is peace comes from being alone, for me full grown had seeds that were sown from tragic soils...
Scholarship alert
Point Foundation Scholarship Point Foundation empowers promising LGBTQ students to achieve their full academic and leadership potential — despite the obstacles...
Delaware Teen Idol showcases youth creativity
On July 31, AIDS Delaware will present its 11th-annual Delaware Teen Idol competition at the Playhouse Theatre on Rodney Square in Wilmington. ...
Youth help ‘show face’ of LGBT community with new art project
In June, Philadelphia raised its already-sky-high support for the LGBTQ community: The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program unveiled its latest project, “Showing Face,”...
The struggle of self-hatred
As I sit here listening to Kendrick Lamar’s “i,” I remember a time when I didn’t love myself. Loving myself was a foreign object....
Unapologetically different at Rutgers University-Camden for the International Transgender Day of...
“Unapologetic” is the word that activist CeCe McDonald used over and over again in her speech at Rutgers University-Camden for the International Transgender Day...
Caitlyn Jenner and the elephant in the closet
The Caitlyn Jenner story has been making headlines everywhere, to put it mildly. Everyone from celebrities to media outlets to everyone in between have...
I am not a second-rate citizen
The Supreme Court last month made its historic ruling allowing gay marriage in all 50 states. Before the ruling, a group of antigay-marriage advocates,...
IMPRESSION, HOMONORMATIVITY
At night you exist as a wave rocking me into submission: every few seconds a single drop of your cold...
SOCIETY TODAY
A life was lost today, A mother and father won’t go to work today, They became broken today, People are being...
Poetry collection
Future possibilities We’re managing the politics disagreements and silly antics Yet totally missing the experience of living Just surviving some struggling...




























