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What a night! 2013 Respect Awards - New York

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Jason Collins, NBA athlete & 2013 Courage Award recipient, answers questions before the show begins

Matt Bomer greets students Joey Kemmerling and Emet Tauber

Members of Farrington High School GSA—GLSEN’s 2013 GSA of the Year—pose with Janet Mock

Janet Mock snaps a picture with two members from Farrington High GSA

Barbara Frankel (DiversityInc), Respect Awards - New York co-chair with guests.

Kyra Sedgwick & Kevin Bacon at dinner

GLSEN Executive Director Eliza Byard talks with Jason Collins and openly gay high school football player Leo Washington

Former NFL football player Wade Davis plants a kiss on Eliza Byard while walking the red carpet before GLSEN’s 2013 Respect Awards - New York

Lilla Crawford (Broadway’s Annie) and Jonathan Del Arco (The Closer) on the red carpet before GLSEN’s 2013 Respect Awards - New York

For more Respect Awards photo, video, and recap check out youtube.com/glsen, glsen.org/respectawards, flickr.com/glsen and of course here on Tumblr — we’ll be posting more updates soon!

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“You gotta give ‘em hope.” It’s Harvey Milk Day.

Thank you to each and every one of you for being part of the change that Harvey Milk dreamed of. You are a hope and inspiration and we are honored to have you as partners, participants and supporters.

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“You know, it’s not really coming out, … It’s more like a long, long walk through what began as a narrow corridor that starts to widen.” -George Takei, on his coming out process

Learn more about George and his accomplishments here.

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Jenny Shimizu is a Japanese-American model who was the face of Calvin Klein and has been on magazine covers world wide. Learn more about Jenny here.

Why do you think it’s important for LGBT people to have high profile careers, like fashion models?

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Op-ed: I Was Sexually Assaulted at School

TW: sexual assault

Andrew Lawless was attacked in the one place where teens are supposed to feel safe — school. But now he’s working to make sure it never happens to anyone else again.

We are so honored to work with Andrew who is a student leader with our Middle Tennessee chapter and recently joined us at our national Safe Schools Advocacy Summit.

Andrew, and students like him and like you, are making it better for LGBT students across the country. Thank you Andrew, for sharing your story and for everything that you do.

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aradovahkiin asked: I wish my school had a GSA. How do you think I should suggest the idea of it to the principal? I go to a public school in central Texas, and I am in seventh grade. Our school is only from 6-8, so I'll be out of this place in only a bit more than a year. But I want future students, as well as the kids now, to have a place and an organisation in which they can feel safe and loved. Should I gather a group of some of my LGBTQ/LGBTQ-supportive friends/teachers to ask?

That’s a great idea! Talking to your administration will be much easier with supportive friends and teachers by your side. Chat with your peers about why you think having a GSA will be helpful in your school, and then get a faculty member to agree to be a sponsor. After, ask your new sponsor to help set up a meeting with the administration to discuss starting a GSA! Hopefully, things will go over smoothly and you can start making changes at your school! Check out our Jump Start Guide for GSAs for more tips: http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/library/record/2226.html?state=tools&type=student

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Congratulations Jason!

Read the statement from our partners at the NBA

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Hey LGBT youth - we want to know what school is really like for you. Take our survey and let us know: www.glsen.org/2013survey

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GLSEN is launching a revamped tool, part of our ThinkB4YouSpeak Ad Council campaign, to demonstrate how shockingly often anti-LGBT language is used on Twitter.

The #ThinkB4YouSpeak Twitter Counter shows in real time the number of tweets containing anti-LGBT language, with a live feed showing actual tweets containing “fag,” “dyke” or “so gay.”

“Fag” was casually tweeted 14,563 times today.

“Dyke” was casually tweeted 25,065 times this week.

“So gay” was casually tweeted 279,540 times in April

Help us reach our goal of zero. See real times stats, reblog this post, share the twitter counter on Facebook or tweet about it.

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Day of Silence is in just two days!!! We want to make sure that you know your rights—and that they’re protected—so we asked Jeremy from North Dakota to record a short video explaining them.

If you think your rights are being violated, let us know and our friends at Lambda Legal will investigate! http://www.dayofsilence.org/legalhelp

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