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The Trevor Project posted this link Magazine Preview – Coming Out in Middle School – NYTimes.com on their Facebook page today.   For those unfamiliar with The Trevor Project, it’s a national organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention for GLBTQ youth.

The article in the New York Times is about a number of GLBTQ youth who are coming out as young as 12 years old and the support they are getting from their families, friends, schools, Gay Straight Alliance and another organization called the Openarms Youth Project, which provides safe social settings where they can hangout.  It makes me very happy to see the support groups that are available for youth today.  Thirty odd years ago when I was in my early teens, being homosexual was still pretty much illegal in some states.

Here comes a generation of GLBTQ that are growing up with a lot fewer hangups, more confident in themselves and probably going to be a lot more demanding of their rights, like getting married and having that marriage recognized by the Federal government, being able to have children, being able to live where they want and work for who they want.  Everyone of them is going to be pointing to a vast network of family and friends who will be supporting them (like those Verizon commercials ).

Also that network of family and friends will be providing them emotional and spiritual insulation when they encounter hate.  It may hurt to hear a preacher saying that the gays should be stoned, but growing up knowing there isn’t anything wrong with them and they are loved unconditionally by so many puts that preacher in perspective as someone who doesn’t love and isn’t loved.

They still have a rough road ahead, but they are better prepared than previous generations.  I’m looking forward to seeing how they help shape the world.

Fox News ran a newspaper ad claiming the other news networks didn’t cover the Tea Party rally in Washington D.C., which CNN was refuting at the link.  Personally I don’t watch cable news since I don’t have cable TV. but I can guess from the vitriol spewed in the reader comments after the article that people are as divided on what they believe about news stations as they are on everything else.

I’m really curious what sort of coverage the Equality March will get on Oct 10-11.  I’m sure some will cover it honestly and report the facts, others will bias it either toward or against GLBT community depending on that stations political preference is and  I’m sure the government will listen just as intently to the GLBT community as they always do (sarcasm).

Well once again the server here is acting strange.  Actually the server is acting fine, everything is running, DSL is up, I can ping the world and connect outbound anyway I want.  However inbound traffic is blocked somewhere.

Nobody has a clue.  Qwest says it’s not them and since they are the ISP I don’t know who else to call.  Anyway I’ve decided screw it.  I’ve moved trancer.com to Godaddy hosting and I’m telling everyone to find someplace else to host their domains.  I’m just sick and tired of trying to keep it going.  I’ll tell Qwest to shutdown the DSL Oct 15th just before they send the next bill.