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Showing posts with label Teenagers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teenagers. Show all posts

Friday, June 20, 2008

The Trevor Project

1-866-4-u-TREVOR 1-866-488-7386

The Trevor Project "operates the nations only 24/7 crisis & suicide prevention helpline for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth." If you are a GLBTQ teen in crisis, feeling alone, depressed, or suicidal, please call The Trevor Helpline now. YOU ARE WORTH IT.

I saw this over at Green Mountain Jamie. For all the pain and pangs I went through as a gay adolescent, coming out wasn't that difficult or traumatic. Sometimes it's easy to forget that for a lot of other kids dealing with their sexuality can be just horrible. Regardless of our varying opinions on homosexuality, I don't think anyone wants to see a kid who doesn't feel like he or she has anywhere to go or someone to talk to.

They're looking for word of the event to be spread, so spread it like Heinz Deli Mayo people! (I'm gonna get a lot of mileage outta that commercial):

MEDIA ALERT

CELEBRITY PERFORMANCES AT TREVOR NEW YORK GALA

NOTE TO EDITORS: Media are invited to press line for celebrity interviews and photo opportunities. Media must R.S.V.P. to Jacque Wing or Scott Boute in order to gain wristband access to press line. Gala attendance is by paid ticket only.

WHO: Direct from Town Hall, Tony Award®-winning actress and recording
artist, Idina Menzel, to perform new songs from her latest hit album, I Stand, at Trevor New York, the eighth annual New York City gala benefitting The Trevor Project.

Comic entertainer and author of Confessions of a Pretty Lady, Sandra Bernhard, to perform a comedy segment in the evening’s program.

The evening will be hosted by actor Alec Mapa, host of Transamerican Love Story on the Logo network and a recurring character on Emmy® Award-winning television series, Ugly Betty.

Presenters at the event include:
· Lauren Collins (actress, Degrassi: The Next Generation)
· Gideon Glick (actor, Spring Awakening)
· Cheyenne Jackson (actor, Xanadu)
· Heather Matarazzo (actress, Welcome to the Dollhouse)
· Rosie Perez (actress, The Take)
· Adamo Ruggiero (actor, Degrassi: The Next Generation)
· More to be announced

Award-winning actor Alan Cumming and The N, the 24-hour network for and about teens, will also be honored at the gala. Cumming will receive The Trevor Hero Award, which honors an individual who, through his or her example, support, volunteerism and/or occupation, is an inspiration to gay and questioning youth. The N will receive The Trevor Commitment Award, which honors a company or organization that, through its policies, initiatives and other efforts, demonstrates a commitment to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender causes and is a prominent, public example of corporate acceptance of individuals regardless of sexual orientation.

WHAT: The Trevor Project is a non-profit organization that operates the only
nationwide, around-the-clock crisis and suicide prevention helpline for gay and questioning youth.

In 1998, The Trevor Project held its first “Cracked Xmas” fundraising gala in Los Angeles to keep The Trevor Helpline open and available to gay and questioning youth. In 2001, the organization held its first Trevor New York fundraiser. The two galas, both now annual events, bring together top entertainers to raise the financial resources necessary to fund the organization’s services.

WHEN: Mon. June 30, 2008
Press line begins at 6:30p.m.
Gala from 7:30 to 10p.m.

WHERE: The Mandarin Oriental Hotel
80 Columbus Circle
New York , NY

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Sunday, March 2, 2008

Wouldn't It Be Easier To Just Kill Him?

Your 16-year-old Daughter Falls For A Divorcee Of 36 And Wants Him To Move In. Would You Let Him? Meet The Parents Who Did.
When Alison Garcia, 16, announced that she was leaving home to be with her 36-year-old lover, her parents could have been forgiven for hitting the roof.

Instead, Sheila and Paul Garcia did something most other parents would find unthinkable.

Last month, they invited divorced double-glazing fitter and father-of-one Craig Wright into their home, where he now shares a bedroom with their daughter.

According to 51-year-old Sheila, of Northfleet, Kent, who runs a yachting business with her 56-year-old husband, they had no choice in the matter.

I think I'd just kill him.

Of course I'm from Mississippi and we have a lot of unpopulated land and guns.

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Friday, January 4, 2008

What The Huh?

San Jose Newlyweds Bashed By Dozen Teenagers
Some San Jose residents were begging for the public's help Thursday night after they were attacked by teens with skateboards, NBC11's Charlotte Fadipe reported.

Maria, Jason, and Dan did not want to reveal their last names because the attack left them seriously injured and terrified, Fadipe reported.

They were at a stoplight on Foxworthy and Meridian avenues in San Jose in a brand-new Lexus, coming home from a church party on New Year's morning.

Police said for no apparent reason a group of about 12 teenagers began hitting the vehicle with their skateboards.
I'm sorry these three people were injured. It was a vicious attack and the hoodlums deserve a public lashing to within an inch of their slimy, worthless lives. But let me ask the obvious question: Why didn't the three people in the car just drive away?! You know, pedal to the metal? Get the hell out of Dodge? Burn rubber? Skedaddle? I doubt skateboards could keep up with a Lexus. Or, are we now so entrenched in the "victim culture" we can't even act to protect ourselves anymore?

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Friday, September 28, 2007

Aren't They Cute When They're Melodramatic?

Colorado Students Walk Out During Pledge, Recite Own Version
BOULDER, Colo. — About 50 Boulder High School students walked out of class Thursday to protest the daily reading of the Pledge of Allegiance and recited their own version, omitting "one nation, under God."

The students say the phrase violates the constitutional separation of church and state.

They also say the daily reading of the pledge over the school public address system at the start of the second class takes away from education time and is ignored or mocked by some students.

A state law passed in 2004 requires schools to offer the opportunity to recite the pledge each day but does not require students to participate.
One student, Emma Martens, said this: "We didn't think it was fair for the whole school to have to listen to it. It's almost religious oppression..." [emphasis mine: QC]

Oh my goodness; I can't stop laughing at an American High School student claiming "religious oppression." Oppression for goodness sake! Honey, oppression isn't being denied the use of the car to go to mall for a big sale; oppression isn't failing to make the cheerleading squad; and it certainly isn't having to listen to someone read the Pledge of Allegiance to your nation over the PA system without even being required to say it along with them.

Were we ever that young and naive? Surely not!

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