Great sleep of blue.

safespacenetwork:

(PDF link) For anyone who wants to help displaced kids.

sibylsillysuperiority:

kiriamaya:

yaoiandhistory:

Lots of queer minors are being displaced and I’m seeing it all over Tumblr. This gives a state-by-state listing of laws regarding runaways/unaccompanied minors. I wouldn’t want any of the good people on Tumblr who’d take them in to get into trouble. Anyone who wants to help should read the section on their state. It’s divided into sections in the table of contents.

Please spread this link around!

Good info; thanks.

And also, to organize around changing the laws that are actively harmful to the displaced kids in question, so that people who want to can help them.

(Source: lovexrevolutions, via fuckyeahsexeducation)

13 year old rejected from high school for being HIV+

fuckyeahfeminists:

democratsaresexier:

Milton Hershey School in Hershey, Pennsylvania denied Tim (not his real name), a 13 year old boy, admission because he is HIV positive. From Change.org

Although discrimination against people living with HIV is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Milton Hersey School doesn’t deny its reasoning. The school said in a statement, “we cannot accommodate the needs of students with chronic communicable diseases that pose a direct threat to the health and safety of others” — even though science and society have known for decades that HIV is not highly contagious.

Lawrence Stallworth understands how tough it is to be a teen living with HIV — Lawrence is 20, and he found out he was HIV-positive when he was 17. Lawrence teamed up with the organization Advocates for Youth to start a petition on Change.org demanding that the Milton Hershey School admit Tim. Please sign Lawrence’s petition today.

The Milton Hershey School purports to serve “children from families of low income, limited resources, and social need.” Tim is an excellent candidate to benefit from all the school has to offer. The school’s refusal to admit him not only hurts Tim, but spreads dangerous and prejudicial misinformation about HIV.

“It shouldn’t be the responsibility of a 13-year-old boy to teach the Milton Hershey School about the science of HIV or the moral obligation educators have to meet the needs of all students,” Lawrence says. “But this young man is doing just that — and we all have a responsibility to have his back.”

The Milton Hershey School is already receiving bad publicity for its discriminatory actions, but additional public pressure is needed to show them that they can’t just wait for this problem to blow over. Please sign Lawrence’s petition demanding that the Milton Hershey School end its discrimination against a 13-year-old young man living with HIV.                                                 

                                                                                                    

This is terrible that this young kid would be discriminated against! We all have a right to education.

What the fuck? I can’t believe this actually happened. How on earth is HIV a communicable disease? Are they not aware how it is transmitted? Not only are they promoting the alienation of individuals who are HIV+, but they are not being honest with the way in which the disease is transmitted. The last thing this kid needs is a bunch of people treating him like he’s got the plague. Jesus Christ. The KID is HIV+, he’s obviously got enough to deal with as it is. Fuck you, Milton Hershey School.