How Do We Stop LGBTQ Youth From Killing Themselves?
Category: QUEER VOICES
During the spring semester of 2002, while I was teaching my creative-writing class at Sheepshead Bay High School in Brooklyn, a student finally shared and read aloud a poem that he had just written. And after he read, our jaws dropped with amazement, our eyes widened with shock, our brows curled with concern, our hearts stopped with empathy, and our bodies froze with fear.
By Michael Carosone, ContributorWriter, educator, and activist, 2014-09-16