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.

The Rev. Thomas J. Massaro was associate professor of moral theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass. He wrote Catholic Social Teaching and United States Welfare Reform (Liturgical Press, 1998). He also co-wrote the article “Compassion in Action: A Letter to President Bush on Social Policy” for the journal America (2001). Massaro became the Dean of Jesuit […]

July 16, 2013 The Huffington Post article about an exhibition at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York detailing the street stories of LGTBQ people since 1969.