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amandus: NY Gov. Cuomo is proposing a budget plan that will affect homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth. On July 1st, he will eliminate 1/3 of youth shelter beds and force youth back onto the streets of New York. Click here to sign the petition against Gov. Cuomo’s budget plan or call Gov. Cuomo’s office at (518) 474-8390 and leave a message. Donate money online here. Donate supplies to: Ali Forney Center224 West 35th St., Suite 1102New York, NY 10001 LGBT youth make up 40% of the homeless population 1,000+ are without shelter every night 320,000 to 400,000 become homeless every year 14.4 is the average age gay or lesbian youth become homeless 13.5 is the average age transgender youth become homeless 20% are infected with HIV/AIDS 50% attempt or commit suicide 58% have been sexually abused 78% were discriminated against in homeless shelters Statistics based on various NY studies here and here.

amandus:

NY Gov. Cuomo is proposing a budget plan that will affect homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth. On July 1st, he will eliminate 1/3 of youth shelter beds and force youth back onto the streets of New York.

Click here to sign the petition against Gov. Cuomo’s budget plan or call Gov. Cuomo’s office at (518) 474-8390 and leave a message.

Donate money online here.

Donate supplies to:

Ali Forney Center
224 West 35th St., Suite 1102
New York, NY 10001

  • LGBT youth make up 40% of the homeless population
  • 1,000+ are without shelter every night
  • 320,000 to 400,000 become homeless every year
  • 14.4 is the average age gay or lesbian youth become homeless
  • 13.5 is the average age transgender youth become homeless
  • 20% are infected with HIV/AIDS
  • 50% attempt or commit suicide
  • 58% have been sexually abused
  • 78% were discriminated against in homeless shelters

Statistics based on various NY studies here and here.

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sarajetlag-deactivated20110621 asked: Uhm, this girls URL

fuckgayrights.tumblr.com

Alrighty then

I don’t know this person’s intentions, and can’t without them having any posts. It’s entirely possible that this is an Anti-Hate Hijack. A lot of people took LGBT Laugh’s idea and made their own tumblrs so that they could keep the domain name including ones like FagsMustDie, RestoreProp8, and TruthAboutHomosexuality among others. They’re not actually meant to be hateful, and my best guess is that this is the same thing :] Thanks for sharing!

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FAQ - Help Me!

I would love to help you with your paper, project, survey, collaboration, research, etc., however I can only offer you what I have. I cannot go out of my way for everyone to find you exactly what you’re looking for.

  1. The FAQ is where you should check first.
  2. Next, you should check my favorite sites. These are where I find a lot of my information. Each has a description to help you narrow down what you’re looking for. 
  3. Maybe what you need is in my favorite posts, especially under the “Resources/Guides” section. 
  4. Wait for the tags on the side of FYLGBT’s main page to load. If they are slow to load, insert a /tagged/_____ to the end of the main URL, ie /tagged/homophobia. If it’s more than one word, insert a plus sign, ie. /tagged/gay+marriage. 
  5. Not everything has a tag, so perhaps you can try searching for it on the search bar. 

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revolucion-en-la-cama asked: Hey, I was wondering if you all could post this; I'm in need of help for an art project of mine, I'll post the information below. I really need exposure of this note for this project to work, I'm trying to collect as many images as possible. So if you could post this and help out, it'd be amazing and greatly appreciated.

Attention Queer Community of Tumblr, I need your help with an art project:
So as some of you may know, I sent out a note a few months ago collecting images of women who like other women. I have decided to expand that particular project to include the entirety of the queer community. If you helped out on the last project, I will use those images again, or if you’d rather submit a different photo, let me know.

If you all would be so kind as to submit a headshot of yourselves, it would be greatly appreciated. Just submit them as is, don’t photoshop them or alter them and any camera will suffice. Names will not be used. This is applicable to anyone who identifies as queer. Queer being the umbrella term; LGBTQIA [etc]. With that image, I would like you all to type a sentence about yourselves [your ethnicity, how you identify, and whatever else you’d like to include.] The information will be gathered as an aside to the project.

Reblog to spread the word please; this particular piece will be going into my senior show in May (which is the equivalent to a thesis). So I will need all photos [preferably] before April.

If you would rather send them to my email address: angarciamv@gmail.com

Thank you all, I will definitely be posting pictures when it’s all said and done. I hope to get at least one hundred images; if I exceed this number— it would be amazing. Please help and spread the word. Thanks everyone. <3

I definitely think you’ll be able to exceed 100 :] I’ll send you my picture now! 

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Calling All High School and College Students!

dashausman:

Are you interested in helping a fellow Tumblr-ist out? I have a school project due in two weeks, and I will be prohibited from graduating if it isn’t turned in (March 18th). :(

I am a high school student making a video on how homophobia in middle and high schools hurts everyone in the academic setting. It is going to be at least 5 minutes long, and will cover topics such as the Matthew Shepherd incident, school board policies, separation of church and state, the role of an educator, and outside influences, such as the Westboro Baptist Church.

I have a whole bunch of things I was wondering people could read off for me! Quotes and statistics mainly. I have the list of them here in this Google Document.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/163cf614zViZ9V6PVCljgVKudtoSs4CrPyEIgg3Rwubk/edit?hl=en


If you have a personal testimony about how homophobia has made you feel at school, feel free to discuss as long as you like on it!

Three things I will especially need your help with!

  1. Record yourself on video reading off the document
  2. Upload the video to a location where I can download the file; I highly recommend http://dropbox.com/ but if you don’t want to install anything, http://hotfile.com allows free file hosting with very little hassle and no registration required.
  3. Email me the download link back to me at cchausman+BOS[a]gmail.com


THREE TIPS:

  • Try to have your video take place somewhere interesting, such as outdoors; a bedroom wall isn’t the most interesting backdrop!
  • The higher quality, the better! The video will be rendered at 1280x720 30fps, so get as close to that as you can!
  • Read with emotion! People will be far more likely to be engaged with you if the statistics have some inherent meaning behind the person reading them! Add pauses and changes in pitch and volume where you feel fits best.


If I end up planning to use your video segment, I will email you back with more details. If you wish to see the finished video, I will have it on my SmugMug site under a hidden URL and passworded.

I need all my videos by MARCH 12th! If you want to send in the video still, you can, but I will be hard pressed to compile my “mini-documentary”.

I hope you will consider posting to help me! Hugs and Kisses! =D

Collin Craig Hausman

PS. Please please PLEASE link this journal! I need as many video submissions as possible!

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