YoungGayAmerica

OUR MISSION STATEMENT

Young Gay America is a long-term research project / road trip adventure dedicated to improving the lives of LGBTQ youth. We aim to educate and inform LGBTQ youth about their importance in society by placing their individual stories in an international forum; to foster and encourage the exchange of ideas by queer youth on issues pertinent to queer youth (to allow their voices to be heard); and to promote positive self-image and sense of belonging.

YGA is really two guys, MikeGlatze & BenjieNycum. The product of this trip was the movie JimInBold and the magazine, "Young Gay America."

The website YoungGayAmerica.com went off line in early 2007, presumably subsumed by http://ygamag.com, the website for the magazine, which was created in May of 2004. It says, "YGA's core office is in northern California;" although the associate publisher, ScottMarquardt?, has a Halifax phone number, and in July of 2007 the FAQ read, "Where is your office located? Right next door to the biggest Buddhist magazine in the world, ShambhalaSun?. YGA Magazine's offices are in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a small city in Eastern Canada." and also mentions YGA Editor In Chief, MikeGlatze -- see his page for information on his conversion to ex-gay and Christianity in July 2007.

The YGA team were also responsible for the very successful promotions of the very successful PrideWeek 2002.

Local to Halifax, despite their name ("America" means "North America").

Magazine people as-of 2005: MikeGlatze, BenjieNycum, SimonThibault, MarcGuillemette?, TedMcGuire? (Designer, working out of Newport, Rhode Island), StephenTerauds?, SheenaJamieson?, ScottMarquardt? (Associate Publisher), ScottMacPhee? (filmmaker for JimInBold), CarolPage?, TamrynPope?,