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June 6, 2023


** Uplift and Support LGBTQ+ Young People This Pride Month and Beyond
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** A Refuge for LGBTQ+ Young People ([link removed])
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Celebrate Pride Month by taking action to support LGBTQ+ youth in increasingly hostile school environments and in our communities. This new spring magazine feature ([link removed]) explains students’ rights and how gender and sexuality alliance (GSA) clubs provide spaces for young people to thrive.

Student-run GSA clubs are a federally protected space for young people to feel safe and secure—and such spaces are needed more than ever as anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and policy gains ground in the South and beyond. “Across the board, every measure of well-being for queer young people improves when a school has a GSA,” writes Dorothee Benz, Ph.D.

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** The SPLC’s Year in Hate and Extremism Report
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Each year, the Southern Poverty Law Center publishes an annual report detailing the scope and danger of hate and antigovernment extremist groups, movements, networks, and actors across the United States.

The 2022 Year in Hate and Extremism report has just been published. ([link removed]) And the SPLC is designating bullying, coercive, reactionary anti-student inclusion groups as antigovernment extremist groups. This designation of groups targeting education and communities under the banner of “parents’ rights” recognizes that our country, communities and schools are again under attack by those promoting hateful messages and ideologies that harm students across our country.
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** Inclusive Education Benefits All Children ([link removed])
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This article ([link removed]) from GLSEN Executive Director Melanie Willingham-Jaggers and the GLSEN team takes a hard look at the increasingly hostile anti-LGBTQ+ climate across the United States, especially in the South—but many teachers and students are determined to hold firm to inclusive education. “Educators and students will continue to lead the fight for inclusive education and fend off political attacks in their schools and states.”

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** Queer People Have Always Existed—Teach Like It ([link removed])
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Throughout history, queer figures have been systemically silenced. Today, educators can undo that erasure by inclusively exploring the past in their schools and classrooms. This article ([link removed]) highlights a number of ways to uplift these hidden histories in class, encouraging educators to teach the historical contexts of queerness and the power structures and laws standing in opposition to it.

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