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Freedom from Fear: Creating Safe Spaces for LGBT Youth
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April 30, 2016

President Obama congratulates Suzanne Swann, daughter of PFLAG founder Jeanne Manford, at the White House before presenting her mother posthumously with the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal, the nation’s second-highest civilian honor. © AP Images/Susan Walsh
President Obama congratulates Suzanne Swann, daughter of PFLAG founder Jeanne Manford, at the White House before presenting her mother posthumously with the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal, the nation’s second-highest civilian honor. © AP Images/Susan Walsh

LGBT youth around the world encounter many significant hardships. Access to safe spaces—places where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth can feel free to express their sexual orientation, their gender identity and all of the other dimensions of their being without fear—is critical to ensuring their human rights.

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