Ensuring fairness & respect for LGBT youth in juvenile delinquency courts
Surviving the Streets of New York In 2011, researchers from the Urban Institute launched a three-year study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) youth; young men who have sex with men (YMSM); and young women who have sex with women (YWSW) engaged in survival sex in New York City.
2013 National School Climate Survey Full Report In 1999, GLSEN identified that little was known about the school experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth and that LGBT youth were nearly absent from national studies of adolescents. We responded to this national need for data by launching the first National School Climate survey, […]
The first study to document excessive punishment of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) youth nationwide, finding that LGB adolescents are about 40 percent more likely than other teens to receive punishment at the hands of school authorities, police and the courts.
