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National Adoption Month: What You Need to Know About LGBTQ+ Adoption in NYS

November 19, 2018

by Out Alliance Featured LGBTQ+ Living Youth

“We know that we can provide a loving supportive home filled with adventure and joy. We also have amazing friends and family, who are also prepared to love our future children.” Every day, more and more LGBTQ people are adopting children who ne ...

Girls Rock! Rochester introduces first Queer Rock Camp showcase tonight

August 10, 2018

by Out Alliance Arts & Entertainment Community Spotlight Empty Closet Events Featured Local News Youth

The house lights will go down and the amps will go up this evening at Record Archive as the first annual Queer Rock Camp showcase begins. Queer Rock Camp, part of Girls Rock! Rochester, is is a weeklong music camp for queer, gender variant, gender non-con ...

BREAKING: City of Rochester proposes ban on LGBTQ+ conversion therapy for minors

July 13, 2018

by Out Alliance Featured Health Local News Youth

July 13, 2018 -- Mayor Lovely Warren, City Councilmember Mitch Gruber, HRC's Carol Ebersole-Weiss, Out Alliance Interim Executive Director Jeff Myers, and Assemblymember Harry Bronson addressed members of the media at 3:45pm this afternoon outside of the ...

Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Fund and the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty Unveil First-of-its-Kind Resource to Address Youth Homelessness

June 29, 2018

by Out Alliance Featured Health World & National Youth

Amber Sterling/True Colors Fund (L-R) Gregory Lewis, Executive Director and CEO, True Colors Fund, Cyndi Lauper, Co-Founder and Board Member, True Colors Fund and Maria Foscarinis, Founder & Executive Director, National Law Center on Homelessness &a ...

“A queer survivor’s guide to intimacy after sexual violence” | GLAAD amp

May 10, 2018

by Out Alliance Health Violence Prevention Youth

TT KING, GLAAD CAMPUS AMBASSADOR original publication: GLAAD's amp platform Amidst the public recognition of the #MeToo Movement, support for survivors and their allies has blossomed nationally. I have seen amazing resources aiming to imp ...

BuzzFeed’s Second Annual Queer Prom Set For June 1st

May 10, 2018

by Out Alliance World & National Youth

New York, NY — May 10, 2018 — BuzzFeed today announced plans to host its second annual BuzzFeed Queer Prom in partnership with Samsung. The event will be hosted at Samsung’s first-of-its-kind technology and cultural destination in the heart of New York C ...

Annual fundraiser for Out Alliance Big Queer Prom scheduled for May 27

April 24, 2018

by Out Alliance Events Featured Local News Out Alliance Youth

The Out Alliance youth program's annual Big Queer Prom is Saturday, June 3, 2018 from 7-10pm in MLK Square Park. Join the Alliance, Todd Ranous, and the Federation of Social Workers on Sunday, May 27th at 2pm at 140 Alex Bar and Grill for The Queerest Sho ...

$1 million federal grant will help study of transgender kids – AP

April 20, 2018

by Out Alliance Featured General Health Transgender World & National Youth

The above March 2018 photo shows Kristina Olson in her laboratory in Seattle. She is the creator and leader of the TransYouth Project, which is considered the first large-scale long-term study of transgender children in the U.S. On Thursday, April 12, 201 ...

Williams Institute: DOJ proposes roll back of data collection on crime victimization of LGBT youth

April 12, 2018

by Out Alliance Featured Health Violence Prevention World & National Youth

The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, a think tank on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy, issued an advisory late yesterday in response to a 30-day notice published by the Department of Justice on the Federal Register. Fu ...

March For Our Lives Rochester: What You Need To Know About Tomorrow’s Event

March 23, 2018

by Out Alliance Local News Youth

Tomorrow, March 24, 2018 could see thousands march in Rochester against gun violence in direct response to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida last month, as part of the #NeverAgain movement. We've compiled some of the most pertinent information abou ...