Outbeat Youth airs next on Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 8PM (PST) only on KRCB Radio FM 91 streaming at www.krcb.org. This month members of the Sonoma County Peer Outreach Coalition join us to talk about their work in promoting mental health online. While this program is located in Sonoma County, anyone with access to the Internet is welcome to learn more about substance abuse, depression, sexuality, physical health, and much more. One of the major goals of this group is to support LGBT youth.

We will also be talking about our special "National Coming Out Day" show that will air on Monday, October 11, 2010. We are giving the mic to anyone who wants to come out or to share their coming out story with the world. You can share your truth for the first time or to a special group of people in your life. We invite you to share your coming out story with the hope of inspiring others to leave the closet and to start living their lives in the truth. We can record your coming out ahead of time or arrange for you to be on the show live in person or by telephone. For more information on how to be part of this special show, email greg@outbeatyouth.com

Remember, you can listen and download our shows on our website or from iTunes. Follow us all month long on Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter. Links are available on our website at www.outbeatyouth.com.

Did you know members of the LGBT community use social networking sites more than their straight peers? On the next edition of Outbeat Youth, we are going to explore how to use social networking sites while maintaining safety and privacy. According to a recent Harris Poll, 73% of LGBT people surveyed use Facebook. We will provide listeners with a step-by-step lesson on how to set Facebook's privacy settings so that your safety and privacy will be maintained while using this social networking tool.

Outbeat Youth is one of five programs offered by Outbeat Radio, a weekly show on KRCB Radio, Santa Rosa, CA. You can tune in locally at 91.1 FM or from anywhere in the world via the Internet at www.krcb.org. The show streams in three different formats. You can follow Outbeat Youth all month long and receive daily updates on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. Our shows are available for download and for listening "on demand" on iTunes and on our website. For more information, go to www.outbeatyouth.com. Everyone is welcome to join us.

Join us this Sunday night as we profile Michael Huerta, an amazing young man who produced a video in celebration of his 24th birthday. Yes, 24. His message is important and truly in the spirit of Pride Month. We'll have Michael's full interview and video posted in our Show Notes at www.outbeatyouth.com

We will also be talking with Lee Wind who created the website, "I'm Here, I'm Queer. What The Hell Do I Read?" This is a one-of-a-kind resource for LGBT youth. Lee has a passion for writing and reading. He created this website specifically for LGBT youth, not so much to recommend what to read, but more to provide a central place to look for fiction and non-fiction books with an LGBT theme.

This show will be a special one as it airs the evening of the 40th Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco. We'll be there all day talking to people about why they have pride this year. It's so easy to forget during all of the celebration why we can enjoy a parade today. It's because of the sacrifices and struggles those who came before us endured. As think about why you have pride this year, take a look at some of the images in this video and think about how far we have come as a community.

Congratulations Emily Wunderlich & University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse on winning $10,000* in FREE OUTmedia Entertainment for campus!!!

Winner of Campus Pride & OUTmedia's 1st International Video Contest & Campaign

When reviewing all of our submissions there was only one that stole our hearts and perfectly spoke the message of Campus Pride and OUTmedia's "Be Queer, Buy Queer!" International Video Contest and Campaign. With simple engineering and her empowered voice, Emily Wunderlich is a student not only making change, she's creating it. Her video embodied the message of BQBQ! She used her voice to show that every member of the LGBTQQIA community can stand together and make a difference. So take note and remember "dollar signs change times".

NEW YORK TIMES FEATURES CAMPUS PRIDE

How to Find a Gay-Friendly Campus?

CAMPUS PRIDE'S NATIONAL LGBT COLLEGE FAIR PROGRAM

THEY ARE HERE TO RECRUIT YOU
Colleges Reach Out as Never Before
by John Schwartz

READ THE ENTIRE STORY ONLINE
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/education/edlife/18guidance-t.html

The scene was similar to one that plays out thousands of times a year in gyms and auditoriums around the country: a college fair. The folding tables, the school banners, the admissions officers with a student representative or two, and the brochures and tchotchkes laid out. The only thing that might have made this one appear out of the ordinary was the preponderance of handouts with rainbow designs, and the fact that the fair was being held at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center in Greenwich Village. This college fair, and several like it around the country, was devoted to recruiting gay students.

“Actually going out and recruiting a gay student — that’s a very new thing for colleges,” says Shane L. Windmeyer, the co-founder of Campus Pride, a national organization that promotes safe college environments for gay students and sponsored the event.

While Ivy League schools are often represented, the fairs also attract lesser-known institutions like Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Scott A. McIntyre, associate director of admissions there, says that his university attends some 500 fairs each year, and that including one for gay students made sense.

Tonight ESPN senior writer LZ Granderson speaks at Bowdoin College as part of the Campus Pride Voice & Action Award recognizing outstanding LGBT and ally college leaders across the country.

OUTmedia awarded George Aumoithe, Jr. of Bowdoin College a FREE Speaker of his choice for winning the national honor.

LZ Granderson lecture: Men, Manhood, and Mayhem: The Real Reasons Behind Homophobia in Sports
Friday April 9, 8:00 pm, Kresge Auditorium (Visual Arts Center)
LZ Granderson is a senior writer adn columnist for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com, as well as a regular contributor for ESPN's Sports Center, Outside the Lines and First Take. He is perhaps the most visible openly gay sports journalist in the nation.

Campus Sponsors; Department of Art, Athletics, Bowdoin Men Against Sexual Violence, Bowdoin Queer Straight Alliance, Gay and Lesbian Studies Program, Office of Residential Life, Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, and Student Activities. For more information, please contact kstern@bowdoin.edu.

LZ Granderson's visit to Bowdoin is sponsored by OUTmedia in honor of George Aumoithe '11 winning this year's Campus Pride Voice & Action National Leadership Award. For information about the award and George's leadership and activism please go to Campus Pride and Bowdoin News. For information about OUTmedia please see www.OUTmedia.org

DON'T FORGET -- BE QUEER, BUY QUEER INTERNATIONAL VIDEO CONTEST

April 16, 2010 is this year's Day of Silence and we want to know how you been silenced at home, school, or work? This month on Outbeat Youth, we will be sharing the stories of young people and talking about what they are doing on the Day of Silence. Send us your story and we will read it on the air. Go to www.outbeatyouth.com and click on Engage at the top of the page.

Welcome to Outbeat Youth! I am the producer and host of Outbeat Youth, a monthly radio program for and about queer youth. It is part of Outbeat Radio which airs weekly on KRCB Radio in Santa Rosa, California. You can listen live via streaming audio at krcb.org. Each month we feature stories about individual members of the LGBT youth community as well as national figures and issues that effect the LGBT youth community. I invited you to become engaged with Outbeat Youth on our website at outbeatyouth.com. You can sign-up for our mailing list and to receive text message show reminders. You can send us feedback on what you hear, ideas you have for future stories, or ask us questions. While we are live on the air, you can chat with the show hosts all from this website. Of course, we are also on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter and I encourage you to become our friends and to follow us for the latest information about upcoming shows, contests, and host appearances.

We hope to post information on this blog monthly about our upcoming show. Join us on April 25 as we look at the Day of Silence and explore how LGBT youth have been silenced at home, school, and work. We will also talk with the founders of the "NOH8 Campaign." Join us and become part of Outbeat Youth! - Greg Miraglia

OUTmedia's
"BE QUEER, BUY QUEER!"
INTERNATIONAL VIDEO CONTEST

in partnership with Campus Pride

WIN $10,000
in FREE OUTmedia Entertainment for Your Campus

LEARN MORE

In partnership with Campus Pride, OUTmedia is seeking college students throughout the world to submit original videos on the theme,“Be Queer, Buy Queer!”

Slams,rants, stand up, sketch, music frenzy, spicy splicing are all welcome.We want you to speak boldly, and outrageously on the vision, expressed by OUTmedia’s Founder, Shelly Weiss, “care about where you spend your every dime, invest in the businesses that believe and invest in you.Build your queer vision of your future, with what and where you buy today!”

Submit your own video responding to concept of "Be Queer Buy Queer," with a friend,your LGBTQQIA campus group, or run wild with your entire campus community! Present in video form "What Does Be Queer Buy Queer Mean To You?"

PRIZE: One winner will receive $10,000 in OUTmedia entertainment* and the opportunity to host the First Annual OUTmedia Queer Campus Culture Fest! at their university --hosted by Kit Yan and being developed for TVairing.

An additional prize of a performance by one OUTmedia artist will be given to the school with the most number of registered voters.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Submissions will be accepted through April 15, 2010, voting from April16-29, 2010 -- and the winner announced at the culmination of Diversity Month on April 30, 2010.

Civil rights leader and highly-acclaimed furniture designer Mitchell Gold
to speak about his book CRISIS and the toll based bigotry

Charlotte, NC, Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010 – The national, Charlotte-based Campus Pride (www.campuspride.org) and local Time Out Youth (www.Time Out Youth.org) have partnered for a joint fundraising event on Thursday, Feb 25 to bring attention to lesbian,gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and ally youth in the Charlotte area.The fundraiser will take place at 6 p.m. at Myers Park Baptist Church(1900 Queens Road) and then continue at 8 p.m. at Petra’s Piano Bar(1919 Commonwealth Avenue). No tickets are necessary; however, donations are encouraged.

Titled “Believe In Youth,” the one night only event will feature civil rights leader and author Mitchell Gold and his book "CRISIS: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay In America." A resident of Hickory, NC, Gold is a nationally recognized leader in the furniture industry as well as the founder of Faith In America, a national nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness of the harm caused to LGBT Americans by religion-based bigotry and prejudice.

Gold has been honored nationally for his work and most recently in 2009 received a "Visionary Award" from the Stonewall Foundation in New York for his work with Faith in America and for publishing his recent book CRISIS. The book has been hailed as an important tool for understanding the immense harm to LGBT people when prejudice, discrimination and violence toward them is given moral and religious approval.