Youth in Crisis: What Everyone Should Know About Growing Up Gay - Softcover

A collection of essays on coming out in America stresses to gay and lesbian youth that they can lead fulfilling lives free of bullying, and that their adult years will get better.

In 1989, Mitchell Gold and his business partner created a residential furniture manufacturing company called Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, in Taylorsville, North Carolina. Just nine years later, Inc. magazine positioned the company at number 57 on its list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies. Gold has a long history of supporting grassroots and national nonprofits including the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, Leukemia Society, Human Rights Campaign, Empire State Pride Agenda, Design Industries Foundation for AIDS, Friend in Deed, and AIDS Leadership Foothills-Area Alliance. In April 2005, Inc. magazine named him one of the twenty-six "Entrepreneurs We Love." Today the company is a $100M home-furnishings brand known for comfort; it employs more than 750 people and features its own on-site education-based daycare center. Gold is also the founder of nonprofit group Faith in America.

Mindy Drucker has been a writer for over twenty-five years, covering topics such as home design, style, business, and family. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and teenage daughter. She is Mitchell Gold’s sister-in-law and a big supporter of his work for equal rights.