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A mental health crisis faces American teens right now-and it is one
we can solve. Hundreds of thousands of gay teens face traumatic
depression, fear, rejection, persecution, and isolation-usually
alone. Studies show they are 190 percent more likely to used drugs
or alcohol and four times more likely to attempt suicide.
Homophobia and discrimination are at the heart of their pain. Love,
support, and acceptance-all within our power to give-can save
them.This book is for: clergy, parents, educators, and politicians
who cause harm with their words and actions; parents of gay teens;
teens navigating this difficult time; and fair-minded people who
want to help end the harm. Here are revealing stories by forty
diverse Americans, some well known and some not, plus insights from
straight clergy and parents explaining their support of gay people
as whole human beings guaranteed equal rights by our Constitution.
-------------------In 1989, Mitchell Gold and his business partner
created a residential furniture manufacturing company called
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, in Taylorsville, North Carolina. Just
nine years later, Inc. magazine positioned the company at number 57
on its list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies. Gold has
a long history of supporting grassroots and national nonprofits
including the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Ovarian Cancer
Research Fund, Leukemia Society, Human Rights Campaign, Empire
State Pride Agenda, Design Industries Foundation for AIDS, Friend
in Deed, and AIDS Leadership Foothills-Area Alliance. In April
2005, Inc. magazine named him one of the twenty-six "Entrepreneurs
We Love." Today the company is a $100M home-furnishings brand known
for comfort; it employs more than 750 people and features its own
on-site education-based daycare center. Gold is also the founder of
nonprofit group Faith in America.
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