Oasis Writing community for queer and questioning youth comprised of online diaries, essays, poetry and artwork.
Astraea The other Astraea... the National Lesbian Action Foundation. A source of financial support for organizations and projects that are lesbian- led and/or lesbian focused.
Be Yourself A brochure for young people wondering if they might be gay.

I think I might be bisexual...
I think I might be gay...
I think I might be a Lesbian...
I think I might be transgendered...
Gays In The Media Helping to normalize the public image of who a GLBT person is.
PlanetOut GLBT news, essays, entertainment & resources.
SpeakOut.com They have sections on a lot of volatile subjects.

Remembering Matthew Shepard
Rainbow Highway Gay and lesbian resources for all ages

Sexual and Gender Abuse Issues

On May 4, 2004, David Reimer committed suicide. Reimer, 38, was the victim of the infamous "Bruce/Brenda" study which was used to prove that gender was solely a matter of attitude and conditioning.

Female Genital Cutting and Mutilation: Networking and Education

Female Genital Mutilation in America An article from the New York Times. Speaks frankly & openly on a subject that has been covered up for many years. Don't ever let anyone tell you that this only happens in Africa and Asia. Touted as a cure for everything from masturbation to UTI's, a preventative for infertility and lesbianism or just to "look more normal". Ain't it lovely?

Martha Coventry: Making the Cut Gives you some background. Is this still going on? Yes.

Martha Coventry: Tyranny of the Aesthetic It isn't always a question of being intersexed.

Peter Feibleman: "Natural Causes" A piece of short fiction loaded with genuine facts.

Doctors Against Circumcision Putting an end to routine male circumcision.

Cut babies and the horror of sex A history of male circumcision and why we think it's "healthy". (This website has many wonderful articles on censorship, homosexuality and culture.)

What if It’s (Sort of) a Boy and (Sort of) a Girl? The story of Cheryl Chase, the founder of the Intersex Society of North America whose mission is to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries for people born with atypical sex anatomy.

Supporting Boys or Girls When the Line Isn’t Clear More parents are leaving their kids alone on this. It's not easy, but it's past time for it to happen.

The Child Who Simply Knew Parents support gender reassignment for their son who knows he is a little girl. This story needs to be publicized, reprinted everywhere possible.

Support also needs to happen for little boys who like "girl" things and girls who like "boy" things without being either gay or transgendered.

Drop the Barbie! Does your little girl play with fire trucks? Does your little boy like to collect pink ponies and wear nail polish? Should we leave the kid alone and let him become the next Johnny Weir? According to your friendly neighborhood shrink, your child has a mental disease! He's gender-atypical! (or, more kindly, "childhood gender nonconformity"). Traditionally, these kids are institutionalized, drugged and conditioned in sometimes brutal programs to cure them of something called Gender Identity Disorder.

These kids may not even be gay or transgendered -- just boys who happen to like pink tutus and mermaids, or girls who like tool boxes and powerful action heroes. Is that really outside the realm of psychiatric reality?

According to A 'Real Boy' and Not A Sissy, it is. A history of the psychiatric view of gender and masculinity. Extremely revealing.

Michelle Dawson (the autism advocate): ABA Treatment for "Gender Disturbed" Children This treatment was part of the UCLA Feminine Boy Project. These "feminine boys" were supposedly suffering in terrible pain. (Well, from being bullied, yeah...) So did Ivar Lovaas (yes, THAT Ivar Lovaas) do research on bullying or try to change society to accept "feminine" boys? Nooooo. The answer was to put them through Alex's aversive behavior conditioning in A Clockwork Orange. This is not for the squeamish.

Did you know the Bible backs gay clergy and gay marriage?
There is a book out by a Presbyterian reverend explaining it all!

Title: Jesus, the Bible, And Homosexuality:
Explode the Myths, Heal the Church
Author: Rev. Jack Rogers
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006
ISBN: 0664229395
Amazon.Com Sez: In a powerful new book, evangelical theologian and former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Jack Rogers argues unequivocally for equal rights in the church and in society for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. Throughout history, he observes, Christianity has moved towards ever greater openness and inclusiveness. Today's church is led by many of those who were once cast out: people of color, women, and divorced and remarried people. He argues that when we interpret the Bible through the lens of Jesus' redemptive life and ministry, we see that the church is called to grant equal rights to all people.....

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Did you know the Bible backs gay clergy and gay marriage?There is a book out by a Presbyterian reverend explaining it all!

Did you know the Bible backs gay clergy and gay marriage?
There is a book out by a Presbyterian reverend explaining it all!