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once you imagine the nearly 2,000-mile border that separates the U.S. From Mexico, perhaps you think of the Rio Grande River that flows between Texas and Caohuila; the tall steel slats that reach into the Pacific Ocean and divides San Diego and Tijuana; the 18- to 26-foot-tall fence that bisects one city: Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora. Or perhaps you imagine the log-and-metal ..
Read MoreBy Spencer Harvey, GLAAD’s Communications Coordinator In September 2010, 18-year-old Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi died by suicide right after his roommate publicly released a video of him being intimate with another man. Sadly, Clementi’s death was far from the opening like it, and yes it wouldn’t be the last: Earlier this year, Nigel Shelby, a 15-year-old gay Bla..
Read MoreBy Ella Dawson I realized I wasn’t straight While I was 17 years old and kissing a friend at a high school cast party. We were alone in a washroom, giddy and giggling about some teenage conspiracy, any time if she smiled at me with such open joy that I lost my train of thought. The next day I wrote in my diary that I was bisexual, and then I recorded that week’s drama from play r..
Read MoreBy Sam Manzella Once Nadya Okamoto launched PERIOD five years prior, she had no clue what she was doing. In all honesty, she wasn’t even entirely sure “what the fuck a nonprofit was,” she remembers right now. She’d however to add generic milestones like “work experience” or “graduating high school” to her resume. Although Okamoto, then a 16-year-old high school junior..
Read MoreBy Allison Hope “Are you a lesbian?” It was a little bit different than the “pass the salt,” that my father generally mentioned to me at the dinner table. “Um, maybe,” I mentioned, although I knew with every bone of my 17-year-old self that I was, case in point, a lesbian. I eventually came out several months later in 1998, the same year that two males approached 18-ye..
Read MoreBy Mollie Davis It was sweltering hot in Washington, D.C., On June 12, 2018, Whenever I stepped onto a little podium to give a speech at National Die-In Day, a rally recognizing the two-year anniversary of the shooting attack on Pulse nightclub and calling out the inaction of lawmakers connected with gun violence since then. A friend handed me the microphone and I started to speak, m..
Read Morewhenever a little sort of activists assembled in Baghdad on October 1 to protest governmental corruption, Iraqi security forces met them with tear gas, water cannon, and bullets, according to Foreign Policy, and forced the sort to disperse. So those activists put a phone call out on social media, asking fellow like-minded Iraqis to join them. Later that same day, thousands of young ..
Read MoreBy Steffi Cao Like several teenagers in high school, I used to dream about what college could be like. I would look up random schools and peruse their class catalogues, fabricating decorative daydreams about laughing with my multicultural girl order on a sunny lawn or studying in a stained-glass library, à la Legally Blonde. Eventually, I enrolled at the University of Michigan becau..
Read MoreBy Lauren Rearick On September, 6, 2018, Botham Jean, a Black man who worked as an accountant and served as a church choir director, was shot and killed by a white policeman in his own residence who claimed she had mistaken his apartment for hers. A little bit over each year later, on Tuesday (October 1), a Texas jury noticed Amber Guyger guilty of his murder, The Dallas Morning News..
Read MoreBy Lauren Rearick Coming out can be a hard process, especially for one of the biggest music stars of the day: Lil Nas X, who came out to fans at the conclusion of Pride Month 2019, revealed in an interview with CBS News that he hadn’t habitually felt comfortable with his sexuality. While speaking with Gayle King of CBS This Morning in a segment airing October 1, the rapper mentio..
Read MoreBy Emma Sarran Webster Any time 17-year-old Denise Hewitt set out on a walking field trip to explore her neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn, with her high school classmates, she had no idea she’d stumble upon a program that would set her career in motion. The class visited Red Hook Labs, a photography studio, gallery, production corporation, and school — all serious about foster..
Read MoreBy De Elizabeth Once Alyssa Canty learned the power that existed in going to the polls, she knew she had to spread the word. Through volunteer work, internships, and her own collegiate work, the organizer had seen firsthand how everyday citizens can hold elected officials accountable by way of the act of voting — and she was decided to help strengthen U.S. Democracy by helping othe..
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