For tips on organizing meetings, recruiting members, activities, you’re legal rights, and MUCH more visit GSA Network for their year starter packet! … [Read more...]
GSA Network: Nuestras Historías, Nuestro Arcoíris (Our Stories, Our Rainbow) – Celebrating LGBTQ Latina/o History Month, Sept 15 – Oct 15
The GSA Network has put together lots of great ideas for you and your GSA/Rainbow Alliance to celebrate Latina/o History Month. Your GSA could collaborate with other clubs on campus, invite speakers to your school, create artistic posters, or even create a display of pictures and biographies. Visit GSA Network to learn more about the ideas mentioned above and to read about many more! … [Read more...]
[Reminder] “Bullying/Acoso” a play presented by RAICES & Students of WHS in friendship and collaboration with Theatre of the Spirit, Sept 14 – 21
In an effort to engage in collective healing, a diverse group of students from Watsonville High School come together to perform in a trilingual (English, Spanish, Mixteco) play that offers stories about the effects of bullying, and strategies for how to deal with it. The play will focus the bullying experienced by young women and Oaxaqueño/a high school students. Performance Dates: Sunday, Sept. 14 @ 2:30 pm - Our Lady of the Assumption 100 Salinas Road, Watsonville, CA Thursday, Sept. 18 @ 6:30 pm - Watsonville High School … [Read more...]
GSA Network 2014 – 15 Youth Council
GSA Network Youth Councils are located in three regions throughout the state of California (San Francisco, Fresno, and Los Angeles). As a member of Youth Council, you will gain tools to make your GSA stronger, learn about issues that impact LGBTQ youth, and be a part of organizing campaigns at your school and in your community to make those spaces safer for queer youth! To learn more about this requirments for the position and to fill out an application Click Here … [Read more...]
The Queer Foundation’s 10th Annual High School Seniors English Essay Contest
To promote effective writing by, about, and/or for queer youth, Queer Foundation offers to the winners of the tenth annual high school seniors English essay contest $1,000 scholarships to attend the U.S. college or university of their choice in the 2015–16 academic year to study queer theory or related fields. Application Deadline: February 15th 2015 Fore more information about this years theme and how to apply Click Here … [Read more...]
LGBT News: New Policy for Transgender Admissions at Mills College
“Transgender students that identify as female will now be considered for enrollment at Mills College, an all-female school in Oakland. Mills is the only single-sex college in the country to have a published policy for transgender applicants.” Read more at KQED … [Read more...]
“Bulling/Acoso” a play presented by RAICES & Students of WHS in friendship and collaboration with Theatre of the Spirit
In an effort to engage in collective healing, a diverse group of students from Watsonville High School come together to perform in a trilingual (English, Spanish, Mixteco) play that offers stories about the effects of bullying, and strategies for how to deal with it. The play will focus the bullying experienced by young women and Oaxaqueño/a high school students. Donations Welcome! Performance Dates: Sunday, Sept. 14 @ 2:30 pm - Our Lady of the Assumption 100 Salinas Road, Watsonville, CA Thursday, Sept. 18 @ 6:30 pm - Watsonville High … [Read more...]
[Save the Date] Models of Pride 2014 LGBTQA Youth Conference! Oct 11, Los Angeles
This FREE one-day conference focuses on the concerns and interests of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) youth up to age 24, and their allies. This year’s conference is themed “What's Next?”. The Models of Pride conference offers over 100 workshops, a huge resource fair, exciting entertainment, lunch and dinner, and an evening dance with DJ. The workshops cover many areas of life that are experienced by LGBT youth transitioning to adulthood including but not limited to LGBT issues. They include “tracks” for teens, … [Read more...]
Know Your Rights! A Guide for LGBT Youth
Lambda Legal School is starting! If you have any questions about what rights you have regarding proms, dances, dating, bullying, speech, Gay Straight Alliances (GSA’s), and much more visit lambdalegal.org/know-your-rights/youth GSA Network Want to start your own Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) this year?! The GSA Network has lots of resources to help you organize and build one! This resource includes: 10 steps to starting a GSA, public speaking tips, transitions in GSA leadership, getting more members for your GSA, decision making, how to … [Read more...]
LGBT News: Camp Aranu’tiq – A Safe Haven for Transgender Kids
“This wonderful camp includes all of the traditional camp activities like: capture the flag, swimming, canoeing and of course campfires. The difference is that it is not broken up by gender. It is a traditional summer camp for transgender and gender variant kids ages 8 through 15. It would become my son's safe haven.” Read more in The Huffington Post … [Read more...]