Lez Keep It Real

The title of this post isn’t cute or clever - it’s straight to the point. Teen suicide among GLBT youth is still at an alarming and overwhelming high. I haven’t touched on the subject as yet, not for any other reason than the fact that I was looking for the right way to go about it. I wanted to be able to inform, educate and affect the Lez Keep it Real audience the best way I possibly could.

I’m obsessed with GAYBC radio. (this will make sense in a moment, I promise that it’s not some random tangent.) I listen to it while I am at work through the internet, pounding away on the keyboard. When I’m writing, I need noise in the background. Even if I’m only half listening. This particular broadcast, however, distracted me because it was such an intense topic. I basically had to wait and listen to it over lunch so that I could give it my full attention.

I’ve talked about GAYBC radio before.
John McMullen does an amazing job interviewing Benjie Nycum (Micheal Glatze’s former partner) while touching on a sensitive subject. He knows how to ask the right questions, the tough questions and the questions no one else would dare to ask. He poses them in such a way that they aren’t imposing, offensive or assuming. I like his style and I like the way he presents his radio show.

Now for the connection to GLBT teen suicide. I found an old archived show (from a couple of weeks ago) about teen suicide. McMullen interviewed Charles Robbing, executive director of the Trevor Project. (The Trevor Project operates the nations only 24/7 suicide & crisis prevention helpline for gay and questioning youth.) It’s a wonderful interview and accomplishes exactly what I wanted to get across when I thought about writing on GLBT teen suicide. I couldn’t do it any better. So, here you go:

Listen. Learn. Lament for those we have lost.

Thoughts are welcome.

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