A new study has revealed that Australian teenagers are watching pornography at increasingly younger ages, and LGBT+ teens are looking for porn earlier than their peers. The ABC has highlighted a new study from Dr Megan Lim at The Burnet Institute who has found that all young men in her study had seen pornography and […]
Tags: Bisexual, Dr Megan Lim, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, LGBTIQA, porn, pornography, queer, smart phone, teen, teenager, transgender
30 Jun 2017 /
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A Canberra teen who used social dating app Grindr to threaten and extort gay men will spend six months in youth detention. The boy was part of a group of young men who made contact with men on Grindr and then later threatened to expose them as paedophiles. Canberra police arrested four youths, including the […]
Tags: Canberra, extortion, Grindr, suicide, teen
15 May 2017 |
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Study findings released by beyondblue demonstrate the prevalence of homophobia in Australian teenage boys. The study, conducted by company TNS included 300 14-17 year old males, assessing their response to same sex attracted people. The study found that one in five said they find it hard to treat same-sex attracted people the same as others. […]
Tags: beyondblue, boys, campaign, Homophobia, left hand, left handed, male, teen
31 Mar 2015 |
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After transgender teenager Leelah Alcorn took her own life last week, activists have begun calling for legislation to protect gender diverse youth. 17 year old Alcorn died by suicide on the morning of December 28th in her home town of King’s Mill, Ohio. She scheduled a letter to be posthumously published on her Tumblr account, […]
Tags: Carla Alcorn, Leelah Alcorn, Leelah's Law, Obama, Ohio, suicide, teen, teenager, transgender, Tumblr, youth
6 Jan 2015 |
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La Trobe University have published a study revealing that the amount of LGBT and questioning youth in Australia has more than doubled in the past five years, chalking the total up to approximately 20%. The most recent National Survey of Australian Secondary Schools and Sexual Health found that 79% of year 10-12 students surveyed identified […]
Tags: LaTrobe University, Same-Sex, students, teen, youth
13 May 2014 |
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ABC News found a surprising result to their hidden camera experiment about a trans* teen. The American based network often run a segment in their nightly news service called What Would You Do? Actors are employed to play out a scene and hidden cameras film the responses of people nearby. Last year the show set […]
Tags: PFLAG, teen, trans*, transgender
16 Mar 2012 |
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