GLSEN (Posts tagged safer schools)

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GLSEN strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.

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Teen a national leader for gay students

When Laila Al-Shamma was 13 years old, she told her parents that she was gay.

Go Laila!

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Thanks to House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi for signing on to the Safe Schools Improvement Act as a co-sponsor.
Let’s keep the momentum going! Ask your members of Congress to support the Safe Schools Improvement Act: http://glsen.us/GQMjch
Reblog... — Thanks to House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi for signing on to the Safe Schools Improvement Act as a co-sponsor.
**Let’s keep the momentum going! Ask your members of Congress to support the Safe Schools Improvement Act: http://glsen.us/GQMjch**
Reblog to help spread the word.

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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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Each year, we select a group of outstanding students from around the country to serve as GLSEN Student Ambassadors. These hard-working and enthusiastic young people help advance our work by sharing their stories and advocating for LGBT issues in K-12 education in all forms of media. Watch this video and meet our nine newest Ambassadors for the 2013-2014 school year!

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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!

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George Takei. Enough said.
Get involved. — George Takei. Enough said.
**Get involved.**

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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... — 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

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One our student ambassadors, Dustin, is getting into YouTube and made a video about coming out. What’s your experience? Are you out at school? Online? Reblog and let us know what coming out was like for you.

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Where Courage is Found

These days, I find that I feel greatest urgency not because I myself am a lesbian, but because I am a mother, an education advocate and someone fighting for a brighter future for so many young people who lack the opportunity to thrive.

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In a groundbreaking move, Governor Jerry Brown has signed a new law–AB1266–into effect in California that allows transgender youth to use the bathroom in school that corresponds to their gender identity.

Although Fox News hosts thinks transgender rights don’t make sense, saying it’s “an impetus to pander to political correctness,” this new law is a major breakthrough for transgender students like 16-year-old Ashton in Ohio. Watch this video in which Ashton shares his struggles as a transgender student.

Thanks to your generosity, we are expanding our resources for transgender students like Ashton through a student-created grassroots initiative called Transgender Student Rights.

Transgender Student Rights provides an online community of resources to support transgender and gender nonconforming students. With this new partnership, the program will become a recognized vehicle for action, events and community engagement through Facebook, Twitter and other social media, to help students like Ashton who must deal with harassment born out of misunderstanding on a daily basis.

Learn more about Transgender Student Rights at http://www.glsen.org/students/tsr

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Asian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ+ Resources

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:

APIQWTC (Asian & Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Coalition), which provides opportunities for Asian & Pacific Islander queer women and transgender people to socialize, network, build community, engage in inter-generational organizing, and increase community visibility
NQAPIA (National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance), a network of Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander LGBTQ organizations
Asian Pacific Islander Resource Kit by GLAAD (also links to other resources)

Historical information from the US National Park Service:

Some LGBTQ+ Asian/Pacific Islander Creators:

Jean Melesaine (queer, Sāmoan, artist, documentary photographer, and one of the founding members of One Love Oceania)
Ingrid Nilsen (half-Thai, lesbian, beauty vlogger and internet personality)
Kit Yan (trans/queer, Chinese-Hawaiian, playwright, poet, performer, and lyricist)
Chrysanthemum Tran (trans/queer, Vietnamese American poet, performer and teaching artist)
Chella Man (deaf, Jewish-Chinese, genderqueer, artist)
Patrick G. Lee (queer, Korean-American, journalist and filmmaker)
Pati Solomona Tyrell (queer, Sāmoan, artist/photographer based in Tāmaki Makaurau)

Other Helpful/Informational Links:

A collection of links to readings on Asian American gay and lesbian history
Being Asian/Pacific Islander & LGBTQ: An Introduction (an article by the HRC featuring research regarding important issues in the community, as well as links to other resources)
Gender Identity and Sexual Identity in the Pacific and Hawai'i
10 South Asian LGBTQ Books That Changed My Life (an article by Priya Arora)
Wikipedia’s Timeline of Asian and Pacific Islander diasporic LGBT history
Kumu Hina (a documentary about the struggle to maintain Pacific Islander culture/values within modern Hawaiʻi, told through the lens of Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, a Native Hawaiian māhū [someone who embodies both a male and female spirit], and an honored and respected kumu [teacher], cultural practitioner, and community leader)

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