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Contents:

• THE BT GAY-FRIENDLY SCHOOLS
• GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE (GSA) AT BOARDG SCHOOLS
• GAY BRIARCRT ALUM SAID PRIVATE SCHOOL’S LGBTQ STANCE NEARLY ST HIM HIS LIFE
• GAY TEACHERS
• A GAY STUNT LEFT HIS PRIVATE SCHOOL TO AVOID DISCRIMATN

THE BT GAY-FRIENDLY SCHOOLS

A first-of-s-kd private school Geia aimed at attractg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr youth and teachers is beg tablished Atlanta for stunts who feel bullied or not accepted tradnal School Atlanta is a k-12 stutn signed to be an alternative for LGBT stunts, though the school is open to any stunt who believ they’re not gettg the support they need for “beg different, ” says Pri School founr Christian Zsilavetz. Pri School would be the first of s kd the Southeast and, acrdg to gay rights advot, a signifint velopment for the LGBT movement. South, for gay rights group GLAAD.

”Nearly 9 10 LGBT stunts report experiencg harassment wh the last school year, and three 10 report missg a class bee they felt unsafe, acrdg to gay rights group Geia Equaly. Cobb County was one of the first Geia to implement an anti-bullyg, no-harassment policy that clud sexual orientatn and genr number of pro-LGBT anizatns known as Gay-Straight Allianc at public high schools has also grown Geia, to rights advot pot to other notable velopments Geia as well. A first-of-s kd private school Geia aimed at attractg gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr youth and teachers is beg tablished Atlanta for stunts who feel bullied or not accepted tradnal School Atlanta is a K-12 stutn signed to be an alternative for LGBT stunts, though the school is open to any stunt who feels like they’re not gettg the support they need for “beg different, ” says Pri School founr Christian Zsilavetz.

In orr to be nsired for this rankg, a school had to appear on eher The Advote's list of the 100 bt schools for LGBT stunts or 's list of gay-iendly mp. And the rult is a list of schools wh great amic standards and a mp atmosphere that is iendly to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Our RankgsContributg edor Peter Bernste and rearcher Courtney Kennedy drew on dozens of sourc to pile the rankgs cludg rmatn om the Natnal Center for Edutn Statistics, The Washgton Monthly, and College Prowler. The Universy of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League llege Philalphia is on seven of Newsweek's "bt of" lists, rankg 13th on our list of most sirable lleg; eighth on the list of most sirable urban lleg; send for most sirable large mp; sixth schools bt for future power brokers; first for gay-iendls and diversy; and fally, 18th among the 25 bt lleg for the super-smart.

GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE (GSA) AT BOARDG SCHOOLS

18), bt gay-iendly (No. 9) the school nabbed the number 2 spot on Newsweek's gay-iendly list is no surprise to stunts.

"Berkeley is home to a proud LGBTIQQ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Intersex, Queer and Qutng) muny, which has a large prence on mp and mak the environment feel more tolerant, " wr one stunt on public school has an unrgraduate enrollment of jt over 25, 500, 53 percent of who were women the fall of 2009. It is also on Newsweek's list of bt gay-iendly schools (No. Noted for s gay-iendls by both The Advote and posns the school at No.

6 on Newsweek's list of most diverse praise om both The Advote and, Newsweek also ranks the school the sixth bt gay-iendly the natn. Wh praise for s gay-iendly culture om both The Advote and, PSU - specifilly, their ma mp at Universy Park - tak seventh place on Newsweek's list of gay-iendly schools. 8 on Newsweek's list of the bt gay-iendly lleg.

GAY BRIARCRT ALUM SAID PRIVATE SCHOOL’S LGBTQ STANCE NEARLY ST HIM HIS LIFE

"You n fd any kd of background here, whether you are speakg about ethnicy or relign, " wr one stunt on "Addnally, the mp is fely more liberal and is very acceptg to gays and lbians. Thanks to the school's reputatn for gay-iendls upled wh s amic crentials, the school plac nth on Newsweek's list of schools where gays get As, jt one more acla the school has racked up sce s foundg the 40, 000-pl stunts who attend Indiana Universy, more than 31, 000 are unrgrads. 9), bt gay-iendly (No.

6), bt gay-iendly (No. Wh a gay-iendly culture (No. 15 on the list of schools for 50/50 genr breakdown, gay-iendly atmosphere, and racially, geographilly and socenomilly mixed stunt body mak Pomona the 20th most diverse school and the thirteenth among the bt gay-iendly schools on Newsweek's lists.

GAY TEACHERS

Brown is also the fourteenth bt gay-iendly, gettg through the doors of this cal of tellect and broad-mdns is an elive qut; only around 14 percent of those who apply are accepted. The school is also ranked the 15th bt gay-iendly the a roundup that seems to speak further to UCSC's broad-md atmosphere, the most popular majors the fall of 2008, the most recent year data was available, were psychology, art, bs management enomics, lerature and environmental studi, Universy of California, Santa Cz has an unrgraduate enrollment of jt over 16, 000. If that weren't enough, the school was also ranked by Newsweek as the 16th bt gay-iendly llege the untry and the 21st most sirable school 's clear why: For amics, the llege claims that 87 percent of s stunts ranked the top 10 percent at their high schools, averagg 33 on the ACT and 1520 on the SAT.

A GAY STUNT LEFT HIS PRIVATE SCHOOL TO AVOID DISCRIMATN

14—s stunts averaged a 34 on the ACT and a 1540 on the SAT and 90 percent e om the top 10 percent of their high-school Ain-Amerins, Hispanics, and Asians acuntg for nearly 40 percent of s stunt body and an appearance on The Advote's gay-iendly list, De tak eighth place among the most diverse schools the natn and 17th for the bt gay-iendly.

20), and bt gay-iendly (No. Newsweek also ranks Harvey Mudd 19th among the top 25 gay-iendly schools the Uned Stat. 21 on the list of the bt gay-iendly schools.

As one stunt wr on, "There is an active lbian/gay and bisexual/transvte group, and Tufts is a fairly iendly place for an alternative liftyle. And wh high marks om, the school is emed the 22nd bt gay-iendly the untry.