Last month, Clayton High School hosted the 2012 Missouri GSA Leadership Summit in St Louis. This day of leadership development was a great first step in work that is starting by the newly formed Missouri GSA Network.
Brianna Luna is the GSA president at Woodlake Union High School and recently became a youth trainer for the Central Valley.
Owen Aptekar-Cassels is a transgender high school senior from Davis, CA, who has been part of GSA clubs in school for 6 years now. He spends his free time helping people fix their bikes, doing activism, reading, and wishing he had more time for art.
One thing is clear from last night: young people have found their voice and they are using it to change the country.
It seems everyone in the California education world has taken a position on three propositions that will impact education funding: Proposition 30, Proposition 32, and Proposition 38.
October is LGBT History Month, so we asked GSA leaders who, in Equality Forum's archive of LGBT icons, inspires them. Below Emery Cohen, a senior from San Mateo, CA, describes his how icon Allen Ginsberg has impacted him.
GSA Network is part of a coalition of organizations participating in the Breakthrough Conversations Project, which encourages LGBT people and allies to have one-on-one conversations with their friends and family about how issues like marriage, bullying, and the FAIR Education Act matter to them personally.
For LGBT History Month, I wanted to call attention to some of the LGBT, gender barrier-breaking heroes who mean the most to me: nine kick-ass athletes. And since it's National Coming Out Day, it's a good day to highlight a new campaign, The Last Closet, which seeks to end homophobia in men's sports.
On October 19, GSA Network will go purple for Spirit Day! Spirit Day is an annual day in October when millions of Americans wear purple to speak out against bullying and to show their support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth.