Against the threats of Trump's return, Project 2025, and a second pandemic, the GSA movement builds freedom through basebuilding, mutual aid, and experimentation — from the STAR Freedom School to the Studenthood by 2030 Campaign.

From Occupy to Black Lives Matter to March for Our Lives, GSA students and alumni shape the national agenda and close the decade with bold calls for self-determination and abolition.

Trans and queer students hit the streets alongside immigrant families, deepening a multicultural, identity-rooted vision of collective power even amid the setback of Prop 8.

GSA Network forms to connect California's 40 clubs, and within a year, youth are already winning state protections, federal court victories, and linking queer liberation to Third World liberation.

As the government abandons an entire generation to AIDS, TQ2S youth organize anyway — launching the nation's first school-based LGBTQ+ support program and securing legal ground for every GSA to come.

S.T.A.R. and Ballroom culture give working-class Black and brown queer youth their first homes for trans community and chosen family, keeping the flame alive through a decade of assimilation.

Trans and queer young people rise up alongside the Civil Rights, Peace, Women's, and Third World Liberation Movements, laying the foundation for decades of TQ2S organizing.