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Teens Attend LGBT Summit on Tolerance
Dec. 10, 2011
Bay Area teens attend LGBT summit on tolerance. Allie Rasmus reporting for KTVU News at 6. Click the link below to watch the video about the Youth Empowerment Summit!
As California mandate looms, some LGBT curriculum already in place
Dec. 10, 2011
CNN) - In 10th grade English at Los Angeles’ Grover Cleveland High School, Danielle Taklender's students read the book "Luna" by Julie Anne Peters. It's a story about a transgender teen.
Youth Empowerment Summit: KPFA Evening News
Dec. 10, 2011
Listen to KPFA's Dave Rosenberg interview GSA Network's Jill Marcellus about the Youth Empowerment Summit, hostile administrations, and the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act, starting at 15:25 below:
Youth Empowerment Summit Promotes Safer Schools
Have Things Gotten Better for LGBT youth?
Dec. 8, 2011
On the next Your Call, we'll talk to Ron Schmidt, author of Once Removed, about his journey from life as a closeted gay student in Catholic schools, to marriage and single-parenting, through alcoholism and psychotherapy, to working as a teacher in CA public schools and starting organizations to support LGBT youth. Are schools safer for queer students and families today?
Indiana teenager’s suicide raises questions over bullying
Dec. 5, 2011
FISHERS, Ind. — A suburban Indianapolis school district being sued by the family of a bullied student who committed suicide sent a letter to parents Wednesday, saying school officials took several steps to help the teenager and his family before his death.
Anti-Equality Advocates File Initiative to Eliminate LGBT People from FAIR Education Act
Nov. 17, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Jill Marcellus, Gay-Straight Alliance Network
EMAIL: jill@gsanetwork.org
CONTACT: Diana Rubio, ACLU of Southern California
EMAIL: jrubio@aclu-sc.org
Effort Launched to Strip LGBTs From Calif. Education Act
Nov. 17, 2011
A second effort is on the table to take down California's FAIR (Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, Respectful) Education Act, which will require that the state's public schools teach the contributions of LGBT and handicapped people.
I say, "Make it better!"
Nov. 12, 2011
I noticed this week we got a few hits from our friends over at the Make It Better Project and I thought it was only fitting to give them a shout out. I don’t know if you have to wait for things to “get better” I think you can take charge of your heart, mind, and soul and make it better! Click on the photo below to find out more about the Make It Better Project spon
S.O.U.L.: Campaigns Address Suicidal Youth
Nov. 7, 2011
Last year, the media reported on a series of suicides among LGBT youth. Suicide among LGBT youth is not a new phenomenon.
