{"id":21031,"date":"2019-04-12T12:24:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T12:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=21031"},"modified":"2019-04-12T12:24:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T12:24:58","slug":"school-sex-ed-is-awful-that-disproportionately-harms-lgbtq-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/12\/school-sex-ed-is-awful-that-disproportionately-harms-lgbtq-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"School Sex Ed Is Awful \u2014 That Disproportionately Harms LGBTQ Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/sites\/out.com\/files\/2019\/04\/10\/sexed_750x422.jpg\" alt=\"sex education\" \/><figcaption><br>&#8220;When information about HIV and sex education is approached with inaccuracy and shame,&#8217; writes sex educator Jamanii Brown, &#8220;LGBTQ+ youth face violence, unhealthy relationships, bullying, and discrimination.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Twenty-five years ago, my pregnant mother received her HIV diagnosis when a nurse callously told her, \u201cYou have AIDS and you\u2019re going to die.\u201d She was devastated and wasn\u2019t even aware that women could contract the virus. Little has improved in terms of education and resources available for youth of color. Throughout my life I have encountered the same misinformation, ignorance, and stigma my mom faced in 1994. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s why National Youth HIV\/AIDS Awareness Day&#8211;a day to educate the public about the impact of HIV on young people and elevate the work of youth activists in the fight for HIV prevention, treatment, and care&#8211;is so important to me. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Twenty-five years ago, my pregnant mother received her HIV diagnosis when a nurse callously told her, \u201cYou have AIDS and you\u2019re going&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}