Dear Mona:
I've known I was gay since I was 6-years-old, but since I live in an extremely homophobic town. I am desperate to be in a relationship and I feel alone most of the time. I'm also very insecure, because I have had a very harsh childhood in which I began to eat out of control. I've wanted to be in a relationship since I was a child. I need to know what to do.
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 We've mourned too many of our youth this week. This year, in fact. Slain because they are who they are. And with such brutality.
A West Baltimore church filled with family, friends, classmates and strangers Wednesday. They payed their respects to Jason Mattison, Jr., killed last week in a brutal attack that left him raped, gagged, stabbed repeatedly in the head and throat and shoved into a closet. He was 15-years-old. Police say a family friend, Dante Parrish, confessed to the killing.
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 An African woman wins the 800-meter race at the track and field world championships, far outpacing international competition. Months before, at the African Juniors Championships, she shaved seven seconds from her fastest 2008 time. Caster Semenya was on track to become the next super athlete, garnering international praise and global attention for African athletics outside of distance runs.
Semenya instead became the center of the most misogynist controversy of the decade. She could not possibly be an African woman, her competitors claimed. She must be a man. The International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) agreed. Look at her thighs, six pack, and muscular arms. What many would imagine an African man to be.
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Has someone you know just come out? Here's what to do with your fears and emotions after finding out someone is gay.
 An Arkansas 10-year-old wants "liberty and justice for all," including gays and lesbians. Will Phillips decided not to recite the Pledge of Allegiance during class because he feels it does not include all Americans.
Phillips decided not to stand the weekend before while studying the pledge. "I was analyzing the meanings of it because I want to be a lawyer," the 10-year-old said during a CNN interview. "I looked at the end," he continued, "and it said 'liberty and justice for all' and there really isn't liberty and justice for all. Gays and lesbians cant marry. There is still a lot of racism and sexism in the world."
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 Reigning Drag Race Queen Bebe Zahara Benet takes us behing the scenes of her new video, "I'm The S**t!", the first single from her upcoming EP "Beautiful Day."
Bebe won the first season of Rupaul's Drag Race, the popular reality contest that opened the world of female illusion to national sets. She was also recently named as an OUT 100 nominee.
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 Queer students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) find support and information at an online resource from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
The Foundation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities Program seeks to educate campus students, faculty, and administrations, as well as mobilize LGBT student groups. HBCUs aren't void of queer life, but few have official LGBT-affrimative organizations or supportive administrative policies. HRC's online resource offer video student testimonials, career resources, mobilization tools and from connections between queer HBCU student organizations.
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 Apparently, slinging the f-word as an NFL player has its benefits. The top-ranked Cincinnati Bengels tapped running back Larry Johnson just days after being cut from the Chiefs for a series of anti-gay slurs.
Equality Cincinnati Executive Director Lesley Jones called the move a "slap in the face" to the LGBT community in Cincinnati.
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 A suspect has been apprehended for the brutal murder of 19-year-old Puerto Rican man Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado.
Mercado's body was found Friday, burned and decapitated. The suspect is a 27-year-old man from the interior Puerto Rican town of Cayey. Puerto Rican authorities are investigating whether Mercado's murder was a hate based crime.
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Russia, the post-Soviet nation, may have a growing economy, but equal rights and cultural acceptance of LGBT people is moving at a snail's pace. Read about gay life in Russia and Russian culture.
 Chlamydia set another transmission record in 2008, according to newly released CDC statistics.
1.2 million new cases of chlamydia were reported in 2008, up from 1.1 million in 2007. Also on the rise: syphilis, hpv,and HIV. The government estimates there are roughly 19 million new cases of sexually transmitted disease annually.
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 Window Media, the nation's largest publisher of gay and lesbian newspapers, closed its doors Monday, becoming the latest print media outlet to evaporate.
Employees of Window Media, LLC, publisher of Washington Blade, Southern Voice, Houston Voice and a number of other gay and lesbian-focused trees, arrived at work to find the locks changed and a note saying the company had closed its doors. Steven Myers, co-president of Window Media in Washington, D.C., is expected to make comment later this week.
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Did you know you can be legally fired in 31 states because of your sexual orientation? Read about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act or ENDA, a bill to help protect gays in the workplace.
Do teen meepers, that's so gayers and no homos really understand what it is that they're saying or are they walking around blurting the latest trend?
Do teen meepers, that's so gayers and no homos really understand what it is that they're saying or are they walking around blurting the latest trend?
A disproportionate number of youth in prison are LGBT and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender detained youth are most likely to be subjected to violence and abuse in prison.
Review of the top sex toys for gay men.
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