Lambda Legal is focused on achieving full recognition of the civil rights of LGBT individuals. They have created a webpage detailing the rights of LGBT youth and what to do if your rights are violated. Some topics they address are GSA’s, Bullying, Transgender Youth, Prom, Dances, Dating, and Your Speech Rights, Safe Schools, and many others. To know your rights Click Here … [Read more...]
Live Out Loud with “The Homecoming Project”
This project is meant to encourage successful LGBT adults to visit their High Schools in order to share their knowledge and experience with other LGBT students. Click Here to learn about Lance Black, who wrote the script for Milk (2008) and his Homecoming Project. He returns to his High School in North Salinas, California. Click Here for lesson plans perfect for any GSA For general information about the project visit The Homecoming Project … [Read more...]
Would you like a GSA Network Regional Staff Member to visit your GSA?
Some topics of discussion are: How to run better meetings, plan events, have an organized GSA, what your legal rights are, support for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming students, and build safer school for LGBT students. Make sure to give the staff member two weeks or more advance notice if you are interested in scheduling a visit. Northern California Regional Staff Member Courtney Mummert (415) 552-4229 norcal@gsanetwork.org … [Read more...]
GSA Network: Conducting a School Survey
Are you curious about how the LGBT climate is at your school? The GSA Network has created a guide to creating a survey, how to distribute it, and other helpful information to get your GSA started. To learn more Click Here … [Read more...]
National Week of Action on School Pushout
September 28 - October 5 What is a School Pushout? A School Pushout is when schools implement policies that hinder student progress and discourage them from continuing their education. These policies include “zero tolerance”, suspensions, harsh discipline, and punishing youth defending themselves against bullying. LGBT youth, students of color, and ones with disabilities are more likely to be affected by these policies. To stand against these policies and get your campus involved in this week of action visit the GSA Network to get tips on … [Read more...]
LGBT History Month October 2013: 31 Days, 31 Icons, 31 Stories
Each day of October this group focuses on a LGBT icon and shares their life achievements by creating a video, bibliography, biography, and downloadable photos. By the end of the month 31 icons will have been recognized. To learn more about this event visit LGBT History Month To view previous icons featured Click Here If your Gay Straight Alliance is interested in creating an exhibit for your school the GSA Network has great tips to get started. … [Read more...]
QSA/GSA Updates
Does your Queer-Straight Alliance or Gay Straight Alliance have any feedback on an event they held at your school, want to promote an event, or share LGBT related stories? We want to hear from you! Send any updates your QSA/GSA has to QYUpdates@gmail.com … [Read more...]
Introducing New Queer Youth Updates Editor — Sarananda Osheim
Sarananda is entering her senior year at the University of California, Santa Cruz and plans to graduate with her B.A. in Psychology Spring 2013. During her senior year at Harbor High School she was an intern for the Queer Youth Task Force (QYTF). In Spring 2008 she received a Queer Youth Leadership Award and was the recipient of an E-quality Scholarship. This summer Sarananda has been working with the QYTF as an intern, and hopes this newsletter will allow LGBTQI events, peer groups, news, and activism opportunities more accessible to Santa … [Read more...]
National LGBT News
Obama Awards Bayard Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom “Honoring Rustin with the Medal of Freedom tells us something about how far America has come as a nation in the past 50 years. After all, he had four strikes against him. He was a pacifist, a radical, black and gay. Controversy surrounded him all his life.” To learn more about this incredible man and his contributions to American history see Peter Dreier’s Blog in The Huffington Post Campus Pride Releases 2013 'Top 25 LGBT-Friendly Universities And Colleges' If you're a … [Read more...]
Don’t Filter Me: Students, Check Your School’s Web Filter!
Did you know that it’s illegal for public schools to use their web filtering software to deny students access to positive, affirming information about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues while allowing access to anti-gay websites? Click Here to let the American Civil Liberties Union know if you have been blocked from this kind of content! Note: this survey may not be completed by students under 13. … [Read more...]