Ally Week Question: How does doing this work with allies enhance your projects and work towards creating change in your school and/or community?
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Ally Week is about identifying and supporting allies to LGBT youth. Why? Because our research shows that when LGBTQ students can identify supportive educators and peers, their school experience is better.
This year, we want to make sure it’s absolutely clear: Ally Week is about learning to be better allies and recruiting more folks to step up to the plate. Whether you’re a lesbian adult working to make schools safer for today’s youth, or a gay student organizing to create safe spaces for your trans* friends, everyone has an opportunity this week to recognize their allyship and take action to become better at it.
Are you organizing? Get resources and register at glsen.org/allyweek
We’re getting ready for Ally Week and we want to know: When do you step up? When do you step back? Reblog and let us know. Let’s work to become #BetterAllies!
ALLY WEEK SPOTLIGHT: Actor Daniel Radcliffe has been a vocal ally and supporter of LGBTQ youth and was the 2011 recipient of the Trevor Hero Award.
Thanks Trevor for spreading the Ally Week spirit! If you’re an ally to LGBT youth, take the pledge here! Participating in Ally Week? Register and be counted.
Ally Week is almost a month away and allies are already beginning to speak up! Watch Yerenny share why she’s an ally.
WANT TO MAKE YOUR OWN ALLY VIDEO?
- Put the GLSEN Ally Week logo before the video begins. Use this logohttp://glsen.us/U8zey9
- For allies to LGBT youth: Start or end your video by saying “I’m [Your Name] and I’m an ally”.
- Tell us why you are an ally or why you love allies!
- The video must be less than one minute long (not including logo at the beginning)
- Upload the video to your YouTube account
- Include #AllyWeek in the title and make the video public so that we-and others-can find it.
We’ll be featuring ally stories here on our Tumblr and also on the Ally Week website!
Have you ever wondered how you can help promote equality in your school? Have you always had the ambition but never the opportunity to speak out for LGBT rights? Now’s your chance! Next month will be GLSEN’s annual Ally Week (October 15-19, 2012)! Registering is simple as taking the ally pledge! That means you are pledging to:
• Not use anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) language or slurs.
• Intervene, if I safely can, in situations where students are being harassed or tell an adult.
• Support efforts to end bullying and harassment.
• Encourage others to be Allies.
Have a great Ally Week everyone!
You can also grab an I’m An Ally or I ♥ Allies sign, take a picture a with it, and post it to your Tumblr or submit it to ours!
Sultana High School is censoring and discriminating against its Gay-Straight Alliance. The Hesperia, CA school is limiting the GSA from using LGBT-inclusive language and participating in activities like GLSEN’s Day of Silence and Ally Week.
Today is the first school day since news broke last week during Spring Break that the ACLU of Southern California sent a letter demanding the school district stop discriminating against the school’s GSA.
Tell them that they are not alone
As they return to school today, the GSA members could face retaliation for their decision to stand up to their school district.
Along with our partners at the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, It Gets Project, and the California-based GSA Network, we want to send a clear message to Sultana High GSA members as they head back to school:
We are proud of you and we’ve got your back.
Will you join us? Click here to send your own message to the brave LGBT students and allies.
They believe that every student deserves to be safe and treated with respect, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Help us show them that people all across the country stand with them against discrimination.
We could win up to $1 million from Chase’s American Giving Awards and we need your help. Go to glsen.org/vote to choose GLSEN.
We know that when communities act, LGBT students do better. And with this money, we can reach even more communities and impact that many more students.
Will you vote and reblog to help us get there?
Ally Week is October 15 - 19! Let’s build a movement and show that allies are important–and that it’s important to be an ally!
Grab an I’m An Ally or I ♥ Allies sign, download it, take a picture with it. Upload it to Tumblr and tag it with “Ally Week”, submit it through Tumblr or send it in using the Ally Week website.
Are you in Ally Week prep mode yet? We are. Looking for things to do for Ally Week? We’ve got plenty: Check ‘em out!
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Before we get on with the post, it’s important to note that these are two groups of diverse people who are very unique in many ways! However, in light of the month, (and mainly due to the fact that a lot of the resources available online are for both groups), here is a compilation of resources for Asian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ+ people! Other masterposts can be found here (and don’t hesitate to add anything if you have resources to contribute)!
GLSEN Pages:
Other organizations:
Historical information from the US National Park Service:
Some LGBTQ+ Asian/Pacific Islander Creators:
Other Helpful/Informational Links:
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May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Before we get on with the post, it’s important to note that these are two groups of diverse people who are very unique in many ways! However, in light of the month, (and mainly due to the fact that a lot of the resources available online are for both groups), here is a compilation of resources for Asian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ+ people! Other masterposts can be found here (and don’t hesitate to add anything if you have resources to contribute)!
GLSEN Pages:
Other organizations:
Historical information from the US National Park Service:
Some LGBTQ+ Asian/Pacific Islander Creators:
Other Helpful/Informational Links:
