Every summer GSA Network offers GSA Activist Camp!  GSA Activist Camps are youth-planned, youth-led summer training academies.

GSA Activist Camps serve middle and high school students in Northern California, Southern California, and the Central Valley.

GSA Activist Camps are 3 days long and feature intensive community building, skill-building, political education and leadership training for current and potential GSA members.

Participants come from a wide range of backgrounds and learn how to:

• Strengthen their GSA clubs through coalition building, strategic organizing and fundraising.
• Understand the legal rights of students and GSA clubs.
• Protect students from slurs, bullying and discrimination.
• Recognize the ways that homophobia and transphobia are connected to racism, sexism, classism and other oppressions.
• Work with school administrators to fight homophobia and transphobia.
• Run successful campaigns to change the climate on their campuses.

GSA Activist Camps 2011

GSA participants from all over California attended 2011 Activist Camps in Los Angeles and San Francisco and had a BLAST learning about activism and organizing their GSAs! To learn more about each camp, you can read our GSA Network blogs:

Read about our 2011 SoCal/Central Valley Activist Camp!

Read about our 2011 NorCal/Central Valley Activist Camp!

Listen to a NPR news segment about NorCal Activist Camp here!

Photos from SoCal/Central Valley Camp 2011:

Photos from NorCal/Central Valley Camp 2011:

What GSA Activist Camp participants are saying...

"Because of what I learned at Activist Camp, I am going to work to ensure that harassment laws are enforced at my school by pointing out when they aren't. I am also going to teach my GSA about the gender spectrum." -- 2011 NorCal/Central Valley Participant

"It was incredibly interesting ot learn that ALL activism is connected because oppressions are all connected. In order to find and make change we need to support each other. These concepts have made me a determined activist who is ready to change the world!" -- 2011 NorCal/Central Valley Participant

"The discussions I had at Activist Camp were very enlightening for me. Through discussions and activities, I was able to see my privilege and grow as an activist. In the future, I will work to defeat all oppression."
-- 2011 NorCal/Central Valley Participant