A Refuge for LGBTQ+ Young People

Celebrate Pride Month by taking action to support LGBTQ+ youth in increasingly hostile school environments and in our communities. This new spring magazine feature 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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Inclusive Education Benefits All Children

This article 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.”

Queer People Have Always Existed—Teach Like It

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 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.