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How LGBTQ+ people can protect their mental health during a traumatizing Pride season
June is usually a celebration for the LGBTQ+ community, but this year many have found it challenging.
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Anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is making 66% of queer youth more anxious & suicidal
A recent survey suggested several ways to help LGBTQ+ youth too.
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Lauren Boebert says affirming trans people’s identities will lead to school shootings
“Gender dysphoria used to be something that you went and got help for and now it’s encouraged.”
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Being alive is your number one civic duty. Your mental health is as important as your vote.
It is ok to cope. It is ok to grieve. It is ok to be upset. It is ok to be angry.
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Half of trans youth have contemplated suicide after a year of nonstop Republican attacks
As if that’s not alarming enough, 75 percent of respondents confirmed they had “experienced discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity at least once in their lifetime.”
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Jasmine Beach-Ferrara is a gay Democrat running in North Carolina. Here’s how she says she can win.
She’s running against one of the most far-right seditionist members of Congress, Madison Cawthorn.
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LGBTQ youth face more stress from police brutality & COVID-19
1 in 5 LGBTQ youth have faced police harassment or mistreatment by police, compared to just 1 in 7 for non-LGBTQ youth.
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Nearly half of LGBTQ youth considered suicide in the last year. That was before the pandemic.
The Trevor Project’s second annual mental health survey reveals the scary reality that LGBTQ youth regularly face.
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Employees speak out against Ellen’s show’s toxic & racist work culture
A former Black employee said she was paid less than white people in her position. Another said she came back after medical leave to find her job was eliminated.
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The coronavirus lockdown has dramatically worsened mental health for LGBTQ people
Psychologists have already called mental illness “an epidemic within the coronavirus pandemic.”