LGBT Friendly Colleges!

When searching for the right college you are faced with literally hundreds of decisions. It is a multi-step process involving countless forms and countless dollars! And on top of all that it can be even more complicated for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students. Fortunately, there are new and helpful resources available to LGBT [...]

BIG THINGS POPPIN’ PARTY STYLE @ CLP, MAIN – TEEN!

School’s underway, but that doesn’t mean nothing’s happening @ CLP TEEN this fall! Get a sample of what’s poppin’ by taking a look at the events below (and please make sure you register by clicking on the links!):

Good News for Hero and Perry Moore Fans!

Find Hero in the catalog! According to Newsarama, Stan Lee made a surprise guest appearance at the San Diego Comic-Con’s “LGBT Portrayals in Comics” panel to announce a budding partnership with Perry Moore, the author of Hero. What that partnership actually entails is still up for spectulation (do I smell a movie?). Hero gained a [...]

SAGDA Meeting Minutes 07/05/08

Welcome to the new minutes of SAGDA, Pittsburgh’s Teen Sexual & Gender Diversity Alliance. SAGDA’s job is to give a laid-back conversational space for lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual, transgender, transsexual, intersex, genderqueer, queer, asexual, questioning, straight-allied, and all the other permutations within the spectrum! We started with introductions from Angelito, our resident representative from [...]

SAGDA Meeting Minutes 06/07/08

Welcome to the meeting minutes from SAGDA, Pittsburgh’s Teen Sexual and Gender Diversity Alliance. For those still not in the know, SAGDA is a meeting group where lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, genderqueer, intersex, questionining, non-identified, and straight/cisgendered teens can come together for information-swapping, discussion, Apples to Apples, and more (whew)! We meet every 1st [...]

SAGDA Meeting Minutes – 05/03/08

The Carnegie Pittsburgh’s Teen Sexual and Gender Diversity Alliance (find us on Facebook! search “SAGDA”) was back in session on Saturday, with some new members. We talked about stuff. Want to know what? Read on… First thing on the agenda was checking in with teens who celebrated the Day of Silence, to see how it [...]

Happy Day of Silence 2008!

When it comes to silence, you might think the library has the market cornered. But for every “Shh!” from a mean librarian there is a middle or high schooler who doesn’t feel like they can express who they are because they don’t want to be harassed about their sexuality or gender. That’s why GLSEN is [...]