LGBT youth

Tyler Perry opened Tyler Perry Studios over the weekend, a 330-acre complex with 12 sound stages in Atlanta on a former military base that was once a stronghold for the Confederacy. Perry said he has big plans for the complex, which is larger than California lots owned by Warner Brothers, Paramount, and Walt Disney Studios combined. FLASHBACK: Tyler Perry Studios Blasts Georgia Anti-Gay Bill: ‘We Do Not Tolerate Bigotry’ Said Perry: “You know, the studio’s gonna be what it is. I’ll tell you what I’m most excited about next is...

A fifth of LGBT+ youth identify their orientation as something other than lesbian, gay or bisexual, as more young people embrace labels that fall outside of the binary. The Trevor Project’s National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health 2019 had more than 34,000 respondents, all between the ages of 13 and 24. It showed that while 45 percent of LGBT+ youth identify as gay or lesbian, and 33 percent identify as bisexual, 22 percent said they were “something else”. Language around sexual orientation is constantly evolving, and the survey states...

The family of a trans teenager who spent much of his life in care before dying by suicide have demanded that LA county improve mental health services to LGBT+ youth in the foster system. Andrew Martinez was 19 years old when he died by suicide on September 4 and three months previously had been admitted to hospital for an overdose. But his biological family claim that the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) did not help him access mental health treatment. His mother stood before the Los Angeles County...

Young Trump supporters disrupted the inaugural meeting of a club designed to provide a safe space for LGBT+ youth at a school in Bakersfield, California. Students of Frontier High School were attending the first meeting of a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) club when they were reportedly confronted by a group waving flags bearing the president’s slogan, “Make America Great Again”. According to a parent who posted on social media, the group of “straight kids” held hands and shouted: “This is what’s right.” The protestors were said to be members of Future...