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13 Oct Posted by Robin Lowey in Robin Lowey | 1 comment

Troubled Teens, Then and Now

FROM THE ARCHIVES: National Coming Out Day is over this year, but homophobia is still ongoing. This week a 13-year-old kid hung himself in the schoolyard at the same middle school that I attended. I remember my days in 8th grade there and how I desperately tried to pretend that I was NOT achingly in […]

09 Mar Posted by Jody Cole in Jody Cole | Comments Off

I Made It!

I was going to try to make it. I was really going to try. But this time I couldnâ€™t make it by myself. At least I knew that much. I was going to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro â€“ again. I was going to climb it, all 19,340 feet of it, for the second time. My first […]

17 Nov Posted by Jody Cole in Jody Cole | Comments Off

Why Risk My Life on a Mountain?

In 1998, I had an epiphany. I was busy whining to my friends and to myself about how useless my life had been up to that point, and when youâ€™re in that place in your life sometimes it takes just the right word to change your life forever. By the end of 1998, I had […]

11 Nov Posted by Alicia Leeds in Guest Writers | 7 comments

Let Brandon Break Your Heart Open

My wife comes out of the shower with tears in her eyes.Â â€œHeâ€™ll never know what it feels like to love, he never got the chanceâ€ I open my arms so she can curl into me and I hold her. This morning, over coffee, we read about Brandon Bitnerâ€™s funeral. The 14-year-old high school freshman […]

27 Oct Posted by Walter G. Meyer in Guest Writers | 1 comment

Banding Together Against Bullies

There seems to a generational thing about how well lesbians and gay men are to get along. Certainly not as a general thing because there are exceptions of all sorts. But among people older than me there seems a strange tendency to distrust the other species. This always struck me as strange given that the […]

25 Oct Posted by Jewelle Gomez in Jewelle Gomez | Comments Off

Touching Down in the Land of Cornhuskers

I just returned from a 3 three day visit to the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.Â My first touch down in the land of cornhuskers.Â I think of myself as a corn goddess so I was eager.Â I like visiting college campuses and working with students, itâ€™s a little window into worlds that I wouldnâ€™t […]

18 Oct Posted by Robin Lowey in Robin Lowey | 5 comments

Troubled Teens – Then and Now

National Coming Out Day is over this year, but homophobia is still ongoing. This week a 13-year-old kid hung himself in the schoolyard at the same middle school that I attended. I remember my days in 8th grade there and how I desperately tried to pretend that I was NOT achingly in love with my […]

06 Oct Posted by Kim Reed in Guest Writers | Comments Off

My Rutgers University Legacy

Last Friday, Rutgers President Richard McCormick stated that the school had a â€œstrong history of social activism on behalf of diversityâ€ Epochalips received this story just a few days prior to the tragic suicide of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi. Kim Reed was one of the first women to join the Rutgers Gay Alliance in 1979. […]

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teen suicide // Posts tagged as "teen suicide"

Troubled Teens, Then and Now

I Made It!

Why Risk My Life on a Mountain?

Let Brandon Break Your Heart Open

Banding Together Against Bullies

Touching Down in the Land of Cornhuskers

Troubled Teens – Then and Now

My Rutgers University Legacy

What's InsideA lesbian smorgasbord

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