Relationships
Coming Out Tips for Queer Teens
HOTLINES FROM THE NATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCACY COALITION
Trevor Suicide Prevention Line
1-800-850-8078
Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s HIV/AIDS/STD Line
1-800-342-2437
HIV/AIDS Treatment Info Services
1-800-448-0440
TDD: 1-888-480-3739
Open: Monday-Friday, 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. EST.
Covenant House’s Nine Line (a crisis line for youth and their families)
1-800-999-9999
National Runaway Switchboard
1-800-231-6946
National Youth Crisis Hotline
1-800-HIT-HOME
Child Abuse Hotline
1-800-422-4453
National Domestic Violence Hotline
1-800-799-7233
TDD: 1-800-787-3224
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Hotline
1-800-821-4357
Alcohol Hotline
1-800-252-6465
Drug Abuse Hotline
1-800-888-9383
Help by E-mail and Snail Mail: If you want to e-mail someone your own age who can help you sort out things, send a message to: talkline@lyric.org
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Written by: Written by: Shannon Berning. Special thanks to Celina De Léon. Partially based on the sidebar “Teenagers Coming Out” from the 1998 edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Last revised: March 2005
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