The more I learn about different schools across the country, the more I realize that many are not doing a thing to make sure that LGBT students can be safe.
Peter DeWitt | Posted 05.22.2012
GSAs offer so much more than just a place for LGBT students to belong. GSAs also offer a place where straight students can come to learn about LGBT issues. If a student is questioning their sexual orientation, a GSA is a great place to find resources that can help them in the process.
Posted 03.29.2012
Fiona Apple may be well on her way to a musical comeback, but she's now making waves in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender blogosphere for an ...
Hayley Gorenberg | Posted 03.26.2012
Today, on National Gay-Straight Alliance Day, I am ready to celebrate! But first I must confess: I wish I didn't have to hear about another school district denying students their right to form the clubs that provide so much support and are protected by law.
Posted 01.25.2012
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students and their allies have an extra special reason to celebrate across the country today, as Jan. 25...
San Francisco Chronicle | Lacy Atkins | Posted 01.15.2012
It took just a single word for Marcel Brown to make up his mind to join his school's Gay Straight Alliance. "I was walking down the hallway with my...
Posted 01.10.2012
A Michigan mayor's proclamations about same-sex marriage and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community are continuing to cause contr...
Posted 11.15.2011
Gay-straight alliance (GSA) clubs are increasingly more common in high schools across the country, offering students of all sexual orientations a plac...
Posted 01.08.2012
By students, a new documentary takes an in-depth look at the trials of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teenagers in Colorado -- and their path ...
Sharda Sekaran | Posted 12.20.2011
My passion for being an LGBT advocate as a straight-identified person came from my personal journey and recognition from a very early age that equality was important because it could affect me, someone I care for or any other human being.
Minerva Figueroa | Posted 12.20.2011
"Mom, I am evil, I am dirty, I am a liar." I am in shock. Why is she saying these horrible things? Did she kill someone? Did she steal money? Why is she in so much pain? Her words fill the room: "Mami, I am in love with a girl."
Posted 12.04.2011
A Tennessee teen is claiming to have been both verbally and physically assaulted by his high school principal last week after wearing a T-shirt in sup...
Laura Valdez | Posted 11.23.2011
Earlier this week, 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer died by suicide. Too often, our desire to never see such a tragedy again leads to reactionary measures that only cause more harm. But criminalizing bullying is not the answer.
David Moshman | Posted 08.19.2011
The story goes back 30 years to the early days of the Reagan administration.
Posted 05.25.2011
The New York Times has reported that over 30 Gay-Straight Alliance school clubs have formed across the state of Utah in 2010. This comes on the heels...
AP | LEANNE ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011
Campus Pride. Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network. Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. Support and other resources for gay young...
Andy Thayer | Posted 05.25.2011
Last Thursday's Tea Party at Daley Plaza in Chicago drew about 1,500 participants. Belying their alleged "grassroots" nature, the rally's organizers were heavily aided by pre-rally publicity in the corporate press.
Eliza Byard | Posted 05.25.2011
The fact that so many high school LGBT students surveyed had been assaulted at school is harrowing enough--now picture things nearly twice as bad for students even earlier in their lives.
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 05.25.2011
Why are we engaging in these absurd practices when our troops are exhausted, overextended, and deployed again and again after their tours have ended?
Peter DeWitt | Posted 05.31.2012