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Pope Francis Backing Same Sex Unions Isn't a Surprise. But It's Still a Big Deal

By James Alison — 2020

Francis once called me, a gay man, to affirm my priesthood. Now he’s expressing solidarity with gay people everywhere.

Read on www.theguardian.com

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Coming Out as LGBTQ+ in Adulthood

Accepting and sharing your gender or sexual identity is always a complex, emotional journey. Coming out later in life comes with some unique challenges — and some benefits, too

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Donald Collins
2021
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Coming Out Later in Life: A How-to Guide

Though pop culture often portrays queer people successfully coming out young, a generation of our closeted LGBTQ elders might disagree.

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Nick Levine
2020
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Recognition Matters: New Data Reveals Acceptance Vital for LGBTQ Youth Mental Health

Greater levels of support and acceptance is associated with dramatically lower rates of attempting suicide.

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Nicole F. Roberts
2020
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Biden Foundation Teams Up with LGBTQ Groups on Family Acceptance Campaign

The Advancing Acceptance campaign seeks to raise awareness about the importance of family acceptance for transgender and gender-nonconforming youth.

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Julie Moreau
2019
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Advice to Parents on Raising a Happy and Healthy LGBTQ Child

When many LGBTQ people look back on their childhood, we remember a mixture of confusingly feeling different; being harassed for our sexual identities; and realizing how important our parents, teachers and other authority figures were in either helping us through those years—or making our lives worse.

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Steven Petrow
2020
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Tips for Parents of LGBTQ Youth

In many ways no different from their peers, LGBTQ youth face some unique challenges that parents often feel unprepared to tackle.

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Renata Arrington Sanders, Errol Lamont Fields
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How “Born to Be Public” Author Greg Mania Lived a Double Life Before Coming Out

“Google outed me.”

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Greg Mania
2020
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For Many Native Americans, Embracing LGBT Members Is a Return to the Past

The sound of drums, singing and prayers marked the opening of a powwow in Phoenix on a Saturday afternoon this month. . . . It was Arizona’s first Two-Spirit Powwow, one of a handful of powwows that have sprung up across North America to celebrate LGBT Native Americans.

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Katherine Davis-Young
2019
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LGBTQ American Indians Report High Levels of Depression and Abuse, Study Finds

“If LGBTQ people get assaulted or beaten up in a hate crime on tribal land, it’s often not prosecuted,” one advocate said.

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Dan Avery
2021
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Latinx Actor Vico Ortiz Talks Coming Out Non-Binary, Breaking Down Gendered Barriers

“In Latin America, there’s been a great deal of progress around gay and lesbian identities,” Ortiz says. “But with being transgender and non-binary, a lot of people are still unsure what it all means and I believe it’s connected to the words we use.”

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Lamar Dawson
2021
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