http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/uslgbt/ The vast majority of GLBT teens experience verbal harassment. A majority experience physical violence. And that's just at school.
We're not counting parents who throw their kids out. The National Gay and Lesbian task force estimates that there are 500,000 GLBT teens who are throw-away kids. We had a kid in our local theater community who couch surfed between three of us for about 2 months before his parents took him back.
For some people, they can see a person they've known all their life and the minute that person comes out, they go from "my kid" to "target."
It's like "The Lottery" or the Green and Purple Drazi ep of B5.
I feel strongly, being the mother of a bisexual child who was outed at 13 and has been viciously harrassed by her peers to the point of hospitalization.
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Date: 2008-03-01 03:27 am (UTC)The vast majority of GLBT teens experience verbal harassment.
A majority experience physical violence.
And that's just at school.
We're not counting parents who throw their kids out.
The National Gay and Lesbian task force estimates that there are 500,000 GLBT teens who are throw-away kids.
We had a kid in our local theater community who couch surfed between three of us for about 2 months before his parents took him back.
For some people, they can see a person they've known all their life and the minute that person comes out, they go from "my kid" to "target."
It's like "The Lottery" or the Green and Purple Drazi ep of B5.
I feel strongly, being the mother of a bisexual child who was outed at 13 and has been viciously harrassed by her peers to the point of hospitalization.