Giving For Good
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Inspiration to give back to your community can come from any number of places, from a personal desire to make a difference to fulfilling a graduation requirement for community service hours.
The Year in Review: 2018
Transgender Issues at the Year’s Forefront
Despite an extremely right leaning political climate over the past year, 2018 saw a substantial drop in media coverage related to LGBTQ issues than in years past. That doesn’t mean noteworthy stories weren’t reported, however.
Living life on campus as a trans person can be a real challenge
Post Two Thousand: A New Column for LGBTQ+ Youth
Just like finals and hysterical religious protestors, awful roommates are a fact of life on college campuses. … At some point in any undergraduate’s career, they will be paired up with somebody who fundamentally grinds their gears, typically out of difference in personality or habits. Unless you’re transgender.
Conservative-backed N.C. charter school changes anti-gay policy
One of the state’s oldest and largest charter schools, backed by a conservative donor and activist, has changed a policy that once prohibited students from promoting or affirming LGBTQ people or causes.
Time Out Youth partnering on pilot teen online initiative
Carolinas News Notes
Time Out Youth Center Executive Director Rodney Tucker announced the launch of a pilot program, Q Chat Space, to provide online support groups for LGBTQ teens in collaboration with CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers.
Study: Vast majority of LGBTQ teens feel unsafe at school, hear negative comments from family
A new survey of LGBTQ teens released last week shows that the vast majority of young people report feeling unsafe at school and regularly hear family members make negative comments about LGBTQ people.
‘Activist Mommy’ to join hate group in Uptown on Monday
A nationally-known Youtuber and conservative activist will join a statewide hate group for a rally protesting LGBTQ-inclusive and medically-accurate sex education in Uptown Charlotte Monday evening.
Time Out Youth celebrates 27 years
Group to hold anniversary gala in June
Staffers, volunteers and youth clients at Time Out Youth Center celebrated a special anniversary and thanked the organization’s founder over the weekend, as the organization turned 27 years old.
Campus Pride is competing to win $25,000 and you can help
And it could be easier
The Charlotte-based LGBTQ nonprofit is competing in the Starbuck’s Foundations “Upstanders Challenge” and helping them win couldn’t be easier.
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