Sample Fact Suggestions:

• Five to six percent of American students are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered.
• The average age for a gay or lesbian youth to come out is now 16-years-old.
• 84% of intereviewed LGBT students had been personally verbally harassed at school .
• 64.3% of interviewed LGBT students felt unsafe in their school because of their sexual orientation.
• Nearly one-third of LGBT students drop out of high school to escape the violence, harassment, and isolation they face there.
• Nearly 40 percent of students between the ages of 16 and 18 said that they are prejudice against homosexuals.
• 25 percent of teenagers are thrown out of their homes when they "come out" to family members.
• At least one transsexual per month across the USA is killed in a hate crime.