Kaleidoscope is an LGBT youth support and advocacy group of the Brethren Mennonite Council for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Interests. It has a page of youth resources, including a blog, Coming Out Strong, specifically for young LGBT people.

The Gay Christian Network is a ministry to LGBT Christians. It is based in Raleigh, N.C. Justin Lee is executive director.

Fortunate Families is an organization for Catholic families with LGBT sons and daughters. It is primarily for parents but has resources for getting youth to talk about their sexuality with their parents. It is based in Rochester, N.Y.

The Center for Progressive Christianity is an organization that seeks to incorporate the marginalized, including LGBT people, in mainline denominations. It is based in Gig Harbor, Wash.

A March 2012 survey by Grey Matter Research showed that Tebow is by far the best-known religious athlete in the U.S., among believers as well as those who aren’t religious and don’t follow sports.

June 27, 2013, KAALTV.com article about the American Academy of Pediatrics, which represents more than 60,000 doctors, updating their policy on gay youth.

Ron Haskins is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He helped write the 1996 welfare reform law and wrote Work Over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law (Brookings Institution Press, 2006). He believes welfare reform has worked.

July 11, 2013, Progress Illinois article about a report which found that LGBT youth face higher levels of cyberbullying than straight youth.

2013 report released by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) which found that youth face about three times more bullying and harassment online and twice as much bullying or harassment via text message compared to their non-LGBT peers.