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 Resources for Teens
I too was a teen loaded with problems...
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maybe you concern, just remember, you are not alone. |
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| The Cool Page for Queer Teens 
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The Cool Page For Queer Teens is a great resource page that has answers and suggestions for almost every question I could have. The topics include:
"Gay Identity" - "What to expect when you come out" -
"What it means to be gay"
"Telling Your Family" - "Coming out and how to do it" - "Finding someone to talk to"
"Being Out, proud and respected" -"What to do if you've been Outed unexpectedly"
"When you have problems at home" - "When you're having trouble at school".
They also have a resident expert to answer questions, AIDS info, and reading lists. This site really deserves a visit! |
| !Out Proud! 
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!OutProud! is the National Coalition for Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Youth, and serves the needs of young men and women by providing advocacy, information, resources and support. Their goal is to help lesbian, gay and bisexual youth become happy, successful, confident and vital adults. Their website is excellent, and includes links, resources, message area, surveys, and some excellent brochures. |
| Virtual Safe Zone 
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Wherever you see this virtual safe zone sign, know that you have someone to talk about sexual orientation issues. If you're a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender youth or if you just have questions, these safe-zone participants are here for you and are committed to being supportive, caring, and trustworthy. |
| Safe Teen Project 
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The SafeTeen Project is the largest Internet Based Peer Support Program! The Safe Teen Project is a 501(c)3 Non-Profit Organization under the umbrella of Project OutReach Central Texas run by Robert Mathis. With over 20 Peer Discussion Leaders, Professional Counsellors, and 2,000 clients, The Project strives to provide the best support to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Questioning Youth, their families and their friends. |
| P.E.R.S.O.N. Project 
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The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project is an informal, national network of organizations and individuals working to ensure that fair, accurate, and unbiased information regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and about the nature and diversity of sexual orientation is presented to America's youth as part of public school education.
Advocates for The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project provide testimony before state and local boards of education, meet with educational policy makers at all levels of government, inform the public about educational equity issues, and furnish various resources for addressing these subjects in the classroom. |
| Youth Resource 
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Many of the sites for Teens and Youths of this page are hosted by Youth Resource, like
"Virtual Safe Zone", "Person Project", "Safe Teen", "Speak Out!", "Youths Electronic Mail List", "Queer Youth Web Ring", "Campus Links Web Ring".
It is a good service to GLBT young people. |
| Planet Out 
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In Planet Out there is a whole community dedicated to Youth, called Youth State, and many useful links. They have also a search engine very useful to search for gay-youth links |
| Elight Magazine 
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An ezine for the web, created by and for gay youth and young adult in cyberspace. It has coming out stories, writings, poetry, personals, rant and rave, quotes...
It is a site for Coming out stories and gay youth writing: if you are a writer, you can collaborate. |
| Oasis Magazine 
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Oasis Youth, the home of Oasis, the online magazine for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth. Each month Oasis brings you news and entertainment written by and about queer youth. It's a desert out there, so come to the Oasis! |
| Temenos 
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Temenos is a greek word that refers to the part of something that is separate or cut off. Harry Hay, a founder of the queer movement used the term to describe the space at the edge of a tribal village inhabited by queer folks in some cultures.
Temenos is a new page designed for 20-something queers like the webmaster himself. There's info on books, videos, & music. There's even a personals section to find that special ... |
| Queer Youth Web Ring 
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The Queer Youth Webring, is a great way to get connected to other Queer Youth on the web if you have a web page. A webring links pages of similar interests.
If you know anything about HTML, and cutting and pasting, it's simple to add your page to the webring.
Please be aware of the name of this webring. It is the Queer YOUTH Webring. Pages of people under the age of 21, and pages geared towards that age are the only pages accepted. |
| Campus Links Web Ring 
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This ring is a new way to link Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trasgender Campus Organization on the Internet. Does your University or Collede GLTB support group or club belong to it? |
| Youths Electronic Mail List 
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It is an outlet for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, questioning, and straight supportive youth ages 25 and UNDER to talk with each other concerning such issues as coming out, schools, parents, friends, relationships, and other gay-related and non-gay-related youth issues.
The three email lists (YOUTH13-17, YOUTH17-21, and YOUTH21-25) is the first of their kind to offer a conversational/chat/support youth group in an email form. The email lists solve some problems that newsgroups, IRC, and chat rooms have. Email is quick, easy, convenient, and the most accessible. Not everyone knows how to subscribe to newsgroups, or to enter chat rooms, or even have the access capability to do so. But anyone with an email address can have access to this new list. |
Support News Group
for gay-lesbian-bi Youths
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A News Group where youths can read interesting posts and also post their questions or ideas |
| If there are other sites you'd like to submit to me, please send the URL (and possibly a shoret descriptiom and a small log, if you cvan) to andrej@andrejkoymasky.com. Thank you. |
Resources for Adults |
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| NAME and LINK | SHORT PRESENTATION |
| Speak Out! 
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It is a guide to contact your Senator, to track the Federal Legislation on line, to visit the White House, to contact the Judicial Branch and the Key National Organizations with special regard to the gay issues. |
| Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gay 
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A great Association helping parents and friends of glbt to understand and accept... You can find here several very useful and interesting brochures, articles. PFLAG has also several local chapters. |
Gay, Lesbian & Straight
Teachers Network
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The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) is the largest national organization that brings together teachers, parents, students, and concerned citizens to work together to end homophobia in our schools. Over a third of GLSEN members are non-gay, and an equal number work outside of schools. |
| The Other Queer Page 
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A site dedicated to lot of good gltb links (also to this home page...) |
| Gay Quest 
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A site organized in 30 Nations and lot of different interesting subjects. Worth a visit! |
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A huge and growing collection of erotic stories, not only gat, even if this link is to the gay list, where I too post my stories (they are completely free, but be careful! most of them are just porno, anyway not a few are very good) . |
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A site founded in 1995, containing lot of beautiful pictures and movies, very well organized (take care, they are hard-core! and not all for free) . |
| If there are other sites you'd like to submit to me, please send the URL (and possibly a shoret descriptiom and a small log, if you cvan) to andrej@andrejkoymasky.com. Thank you. |
A list of interesting and useful sites |
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