Media Resources for LGBTQ Youth of Color

LGBTQ youth of color face specific challenges and heightened discrimination as they navigate a society that is often both homophobic and racist. A recent interview with three generations of black gay and lesbian people explores the role age plays in their sexual identities. The Challenges of Being Black and Gay Spans Generations, aired on National Public Radio and is one of the resources available from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's (GLAAD) People of Color (POC) Media Program. GLAAD's POC Media Program works to promote fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of LGBT people of color in the media in order to increase the visibility of these communities and serves as a community resource for LBGT people of color and their allies. The POC Media Program publishes a periodic e-newsletter and maintains web pages focusing on Communities of African Descent, the Asian Pacific Islander Community, the Latina/o Community, the Muslim/Arab American Community, and the Native American Community. These pages contain links to community-specific media kits, articles, and a variety of other resources.

Listen to The Challenges of Being Black and Gay Spans Generations
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The Upshot: Love Won

Check out this piece, by Anna Quindlen, about love, gay marriage, and social norms.

The Same People - Scream, shout, jump up and down. No matter. The gay-marriage issue is over and done with. The upshot: love won.

"...One of the most transformative social movements over our lifetime has been the battle for gay rights, and the key to its great success has been the grass-roots phenomenon of exploding stereotypes by simply saying, 'Yes, I am.' Each time the woman at the next desk or the guy down the street lets it be known that he or she is gay, it takes another brick out of the wall of division. Or, as Ellen DeGeneres told John McCain on her show recently, 'We are all the same people, all of us.' That's what the California Supreme Court said when it ruled that gay couples should have the right to marry as a matter of basic equality..." Read the entire story.

Originally published in Newsweek on June 9, 2008.