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Born which way?
LGBT is becoming a social and political identity rather than a sexual identity for many young people, writes Eric Kaufmann in a Center...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 5, 20221 min read
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Teaching that it’s OK to be gay
NBC News reports on integrating gay, lesbian and transgender issues into classrooms in Colorado. Seven states have “no promo homo” laws...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 12, 20181 min read
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Parents seek right to know about bullying
Jacobe Taras went on a family vacation shortly before he killed himself. Photo: Richard Taras Schools should be required to tell parents...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 8, 20181 min read
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27% of kids are . . . what?
Twenty-seven percent of 12- to 17-year-olds in California identify as “nongender conforming,” according to a new UCLA survey. Take a...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 4, 20182 min read
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Who’s gay? Textbooks must say
Was Emily Dickinson gay? How about Ralph Waldo Emerson? The California Board of Education has rejected two proposed middle-school...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 3, 20172 min read
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‘If you want a great gay novel, write it’
More than 50 years ago, a Tulsa high school student wrote a novel about the conflict between “greasers” and rich kids. S.E. Hinton’s The...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 9, 20171 min read
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