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Wrapping Up The Year
The end of the school year is around the corner, so now is the perfect opportunity for your Gay-Straight Alliance to reflect on the year and make plans for 2012-2013. Consider the list of suggestions below for your GSA: End-of-year celebration and reflection Write thank you notes to allies and community activists Get events such as National Coming Out Day,…
Global Learning
It seems that for the past week American gay rights activists have been focusing on domestic breakthroughs and setbacks – on President Obama’s announcing his support for same sex marriage and on North Carolina’s passing of Amendment 1. But, one blogger from Mental_Floss took these domestic happenings as an opportunity to focus on worldwide same-sex marriage breakthroughs. Her post offers…
50 Years From Now?
Where do you see gay rights America in 50 years? The Onion, a satirical “news” website, offers a glimpse into the future where gay rights are human rights and where not a moment’s though is given to a person’s sexuality. This is a great article to discuss in class, with your GSA, or even at home. Questions for consideration? -Are…
Coming Out In A Yearbook?
It’s that time of year when yearbooks abound in schools across the country. How would your school respond to the publishing of a coming out story in the yearbook or newspaper? One Tennessee student and teacher are currently under fire for publishing a piece entitled “It’s Okay to be Gay.” Questions for discussion: What is your administrations attitude towards LGBT…
Thank you, Mr. President!
The day after 60% of voters in North Carolina supported proposition 1 in passing a constitutional ban on same sex marriage, President Barack Obama announced his support of marriage equality. Obama is the first sitting United States President to publicly endorse the right of the LGBT community to marry. Since taking office in 2008, Obama supported the repeal of “Don’t…
Get Your Yearbook…
We have entered that busy time of year when high school yearbook editors are rushing to put their final pages to bed, juniors and seniors are obsessing about prom dates, and spring is truly in the air. With all of this commotion and anticipation usually comes some controversy. Recently, the faculty advisor of a Colorado high school may have cut…
Clothing, Comics, and Controversy: One Million Moms Has a New Focus
According to an article in the Huffington Post, One Million Moms, the same group that threatened JC Penny with a boycott over hiring Ellen DeGeneres as its spokesperson, now has its sights set on Toys R Us. The reason: Archie Comics. Toys R Us sells Archie Comics and Archie Comics has a “gay wedding” issue about to hit the shelves. …
Gender Nonconforming… Who or What are We Conforming To?
“You throw like a girl!” “You look like a boy; do you want to be a boy?” “Man-up.” In addition to the sex organs we are born with, societal constructs indicate what it means to be a boy and what it means to be a girl. As adults, we have grown up with a certain understanding of what is gender…
