Missouri high school football player Jake Bain said when he came out at an all-school assembly, 'most people don’t have to come out. Most people don’t have to be worried about who they are attracted to.” “From the beginning, I wanted to just be myself,” Bain said. “And I wanted to show people aro

In Loving Memory: President Joe Biden grieved with the shattered community of Uvalde, mourning privately for three hours with anguished families of the 19 school children and two teachers killed by a gunman. Faced with chants of “do something” as he departed a church service, Biden pledged: “We wil

A gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. The victims included students and adults. A heavily armed man in Parkland, Fla., northwest of Miami, returned to the high school that expelled him and opened fire with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, the authorities said.

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For being gay, Justin is excommunicated from the church he grew up in and estranged from his community. www.imfromdriftwood.com Is a compilation of true stories by gay people from all over in an attempt to help LGBTQ teens feel not so alone. Please pass the link along to anyone who might benefit fro...

A school choir pulled a fast one on its director and brought him to tears. Christopher Landis was at the rehearsal brunch for his upcoming wedding to then-fiance Joe Michienzie in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He had no idea his students from Hingham Middle School had been rehearsing for a month to celeb

Charlie Carver opens up about how having a gay father influenced his own journey. Teen Wolf and Desperate Housewives star Charlie Carver says he was 11 when he learned of the reason behind his parent’s divorce: his dad had come out as gay. Despite that, Carver didn’t come out until his late teens, a

Janet Mock, a writer living in New York, tells her story of growing up transsexual in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she was born male and transitioned from Charles to Janet during her freshman year of high school. Due to her adolescent transition, she was bullied, teased and taunted through the halls of h...

CommunityofLigts is honored to join the The Disney+ ""This Is Me"" Pride Celebration Spectacular is raising awareness for GLSEN, a nonprofit that The Walt Disney Company is proud to support, which works to ensure that LGBTQ+ students are able to learn and grow in a school environment free from bull...

Zander’s graduation speech at the Van Wezel May 2022 Pine View School The Florida senior class president had been warned not to discuss his experience as a gay student during his graduation speech. Moricz is the youngest public plaintiff in the lawsuit against Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill and or