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adamleben Today, Detroit youth round table gathered at the Detroit High Technology Community Center of Detroit, where youth from the Detroit area gather to discuss the issues they see in the community and what their solutions are. Their issues ranged from their opportunities for college, higher education, technology access for students to have equal learning opportunities, [...] Read More
Apr 23, 2011

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adamleben Its the day before Christmas, Xmas, Festivus, (insert the term of choice) and many Americas are traveling or with freamily for the season. While many are shopping and wondering what they will get tomorrow I find myself thanking my senators, President Obama, that I proudly voted for who have help as Rep. Read More
Dec 24, 2010

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adamleben Today President Obama proudly signed the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell ending a 17 year policy that banns openly gay and lesbian citizens from serving in the armed forces of our nation. This policy that caused the lose of 14,000 service men and women over its time costing $400-500 million since 1993. Read More
Dec 22, 2010

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adamleben With all the talk about the lack of compromise, lack of action and lame duck session in Congress real action is taking place. Yesterday Senator Sherrod Brown a Democrat from Ohio took to the floor and made a clear message of It Gets Better to the United States Senate reading a letter from a gay [...] Read More
Dec 2, 2010

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adamleben Over the last 2 months over 3,000 It Gets Better videos have been made from every day citizens, young LBGT, allies, families, celebrities, President Obama, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton with a message It Gets Better and speaking about how they know what being different and bullied it like and their heart goes out to [...] Read More
Nov 18, 2010

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adamleben Howell Michigan, home to the KKK and a city that is working to combat that suspended a teacher who asked a student to take off the conferederate belt, during Spirit Day, as students around the country wore purple to remember the at the time 10 lost recent youth who are LBGT to suicide. This caused [...] Read More
Nov 15, 2010

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adamleben With the It Gets Better Campaign and the Make It Better Now we are hearing the loses of bullying for kids who are different and gay bullying. The stories from It Gets Better reports its hard, it reports the loses but what about the hate, the facts of the bullying. Read More
Nov 11, 2010

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adamleben Tonight Glee made a stance that was hitting home of what many young LBGT teens and people who feel difference must address. Do you fight against the bigots, the bullying, stand up against such hardship and be against the stream and hope to make a change, or at least to have just stood up or [...] Read More
Nov 9, 2010

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adamleben Tens of thousands if not more did pour into the National Mall yesterday for the Rally to Restore Sanity/ Rally to Keep Fear Alive, hosted by Comedy Central comedians who report the news in humour form, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert the rest of us in America went about our lives. Many people who watch [...] Read More
Oct 31, 2010

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adamleben Earlier this week Secretary of State Hilary Clinton spoke to LBGT youth across the nation that it gets betters. Today President Obama speaks out to LBGT you that Every Day It Gets Better. Read More
Oct 22, 2010

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adamleben With recent news of 10 LBGT youth who have been lost by death by suicides, a broken arm for a 11 year old boy cheerleader and the Cyberbullying inicident of Michigan, the nation tomorrow is wearing purple. People are calling their legislatures to ask for the GLSEN intro bills for Non Discrimination Student Act and [...] Read More
Oct 19, 2010

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adamleben This week openly gay City Councilman Joel Burn of Fort Worth (America’s gay youth hero) used his announcement time at the City Hall meeting to address the harassment, bullying and suicides with LBGT youth nationally. Sharing his story that he had never shared before, Joel Burn reached out to educate, bring awareness, call to action [...] Read More
Oct 16, 2010

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adamleben Last week a new site went live called “Give a Damn” and the question was do you give a damn? I give a damn. Read More
Oct 6, 2010

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adamleben Today I spent the day address gender expression, gender identity, sexuality, gender roles, and how in West Michigan this is never brought up it seems to most people. Getting comments from “striaght acting” Gay men (I think they go to hooters while on their “discrete” dates). Read More
Sep 25, 2010

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adamleben Advocate writer, Kerry Elevalad a long time advocate on repealing DADT who I have had the joy to meet while in DC last year for the National Equlaity March meet with Senator McCain to ask why he thinks that DADT is not seeking out and discharging troops. The short answer you can see below is [. Read More
Sep 22, 2010

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adamleben Coming this evening from Maine, the Rally to push the two senators that will Do or Die the DADT Senate floor debate by vote tomorrow. Lady Gaga is holding the stage addressing the points of DADT, as an icon and symbol of Equality and Diversity. Read More
Sep 20, 2010

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adamleben Today a Federal Judge has ruled on the Prop 8 decision, that in a slight margin to take away same sex marriage from the people of California. The ruling came out that is unconstitutional to discriminate gay and lesbians in the civil rights of marriage. Read More
Aug 4, 2010

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