San Diego based Youth Pride Services, in partnership with several local and national organizations, have launched the first phase of a youth-led initiative to establish a National Strategy for Black Gay Youth in America.

Youth leaders in several states kicked off the first phase of this initiative on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The goal of this first phase is to mobilize 2,500 black gay youth across the country to take part in a national survey. The survey is designed to paint a national picture of what it is like to grow up black and gay in the United States. It will be used as a tool for partnering orgnaizations via a publication that will break down state-by-state data received from the strategy.

Black gay youth under the age of 25 in the United States are encouraged to take the survey at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GL5DQN2

National youth leaders working on this project come from black gay youth programs around the country. They include:

Justin McNeil, 20, Baltimore Maryland
DeAndre Roberts, 19, San Diego
Roman Caesar, 23, Brooklyn, NY
DuShaun Harris, 23, Chicago, IL