At my agency’s annual fundraiser, I shared a story that I’ve kept private over this past year that I’d like to share with you now. I originally decided to keep it private because I was so struck by the darkness and the cruelty of it that it didn’t feel necessary to allow it to touch […]
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I Might Believe…
Posted: 3rd November 2022 by admin in BlogTags: #believeinmagic, #findingjoy, #LGBT youth, #transgender, #transsanta, community, healing
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Twenty Years After a Comic, An Airport, and a Hot Mic
Posted: 26th December 2017 by admin in BlogTags: #coming out, #LGBT youth, community, Ellen coming out episode, friends, LGBT history
I just watched a very poignant clip of Ellen interviewing Oprah about the 1997 coming out episode (The Puppy) on the Ellen Show. That episode aired in April 1997 and I started work at Youth Outlook in October 1998. I found it difficult not to tear up while Ellen and Oprah talked about both the […]
Stretching for Words Like It’s a Yoga Pose
Posted: 13th November 2016 by admin in BlogTags: #LGBT youth, community, Dare to Dream, LGBT issues, Trevor Project, Youth Outlook
Last night, my agency held its annual gala, four days after much of the LGBT world was shot through with a bolt of fear that brought some of us to the verge of physical illness. On Wednesday, I was in meetings marked by stunned silence, abject fear, and immutable grief. The questions everywhere I turned […]
On the Red Carpet
Posted: 11th October 2014 by admin in BlogTags: #LGBT youth, community, humor, movies
Last night, we convened the 7th annual Dare to Dream event, the major fundraiser for Youth Outlook. It was the first time in several years that there were no accidents or suicides among the youth served in this agency on which for us to reflect. Last night, we wanted to play. As usual, I drafted […]
Creating Community
Posted: 11th September 2013 by admin in BlogTags: #LGBT youth, 9/11, community, healing, safety
The goal of my work at Youth Outlook is to create safe space for LGBT youth. Presently, we do that in a number of ways, primarily through running drop-in centers in various communities, and also through our community education and youth leadership development work. But in 2001, our community education and youth leadership were just […]
New Recruits and Ripple Effects
Posted: 6th August 2013 by admin in BlogTags: community, giving back, volunteer
At work, I’m gearing up for our next round of volunteer training. Despite the fact that this process chews up a number of weekends per year, which I guard fiercely on an average day, getting the new volunteers ready to go to work remains one of my favorite things about running an agency. And not […]