LGBT Youth Archives | Focus Mid-South

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Find Your Campus Family: Gay Straight Alliances at Area Colleges + Universities

curated by Danielle McBride You’re going to be great in college. What once made you a target will now make you an icon. You can finally say, ‘screw you’ to…

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Second Chance Prom

Southwest Tennessee Community College Students Celebrate Diversity, Inclusion by Melissa N. Reyna | photos by Julie Lester On March 29, the Nabors gym at Southwest Tennessee Community College was transformed…

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Gay, Out, & Happy at 13

story by Nick Lingerfelt | photos by Robin Beaudoin Everyone knows; no one cares– Kristian Shaw When Kristian Shaw was 11, he began to notice his fellow male classmates start…

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Maddie Waters: Taking on Life’s Challenges with Style

story and photo by Dana Cooper Maddie Waters is not your average 18-year-old. Her sunny disposition belies the world of adversity she has overcome to get to where she is…

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Your Holiday Mom

by Sarah Rutledge Fischer Hello my darling holiday child! Come in, come in from out of the cold! You must be freezing! The wind off the lake can be bitter…

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Meet OUTMemphis’ Jessie Claudio

story and photos by Dana Cooper Inside a charming Cooper-Young bungalow, the offices of OUTMemphis are teeming with pride and hope. Jessie Claudio, the organization’s men’s sexual health specialist,…

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Stonewall Tigers at U of M: Active and Proud GSA

story and photos by Nick Lingerfelt At the gay bar Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood of Manhattan, New York, during the early morning hours of June 28,…

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What Does The A Stand For?

by Remy Chartier, age 18 | Originally Published as “Asexuality: It’s Normal and So Are You” November 9, 2017. Reprinted with permission from Sex, Etc.., a teen-written sexual health magazine and website,…

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Metamorphosis Project, LGBT youth emergency shelter, is fully funded!

by Robin Beaudoin | images courtesy of OUTMemphis OUTMemphis is pleased to announce it has successfully secured the funds needed to construct the Youth Emergency Shelter, the cornerstone of…